Join us for a magical week with Catharine Ellis building and maintaining an organic indigo vat,learning about resist dyeing, indigo discharge, and printing applications. Catharine Ellis has been making and using organic indigo vats since 2011, when she first learned about them from Michel Garcia. This is the same vat that he introduced in the …

In conjunction with the exhibition Since Taos, featuring a collection of felt-based work created between 2001 and the present day, Lisa Klakulak will offer a 2-day course focusing on wet felting techniques to develop three-dimensional forms. Participants will explore the use of resists to build hollow forms while the placement of different weights of wool …

In the class, participants will explore many approaches to designing for tapestry weaving, including photography, drawing, painting, and collage. Exercises to encourage creative process will be presented and through those each person will begin to develop strategies for creating one’s own imagery. Before making the cartoon for a tapestry, we will discuss the images created …

We will cover oh so much in our five days; plan to be completely, but happily, exhausted and full of new ideas at the end. Create Fabrics full of Depth and Personal Imagery- Deconstructed Screen-Printing and More What is: Deconstructed screenprinting: technique Kerr developed using simple removable textures such as bubble wrap, corrugated cardboard, various …

In this beginner-friendly class, you will learn how to make a beautiful nuno collage scarflette/shawlette. Learn the fundamentals of nuno felting along with some of the unique techniques even the top felt makers use! You will be making a sandwich of silk/wool/silk with very little wool so you will have a masterpiece even after one …

The focus will be on designing and making a one-piece Nuno-felted garment. Students will be working with a very simple, but effective pattern, that will help them develop their own fashion ideas.The emphasis will be on enlarging the pattern from a basic pattern to an enlarged felting template. We will focus on pleating, layering and …

Express yourself through colorful patterns, designs, or simplified images, logos and initials. Learn basic embroidery stitches to design and begin a sew-on patch. Add your patch to any jacket, bag or canvas sneaker. Novice….

Join Janet for four days of fun learning advanced resist techniques for creating sculptural felt art. Learn to use nested resists or a complex resist (like a book) or even a simple resist that is manipulated during the felt making process to create an intriguing, organic sculptural design. Make more than one! On days three …

Create a sampler notebook of stitched and knotted Shibori techniques, build a vat for the class to use and then use this vocabulary to create a small decorative wall hanging or quilt. Explore how Shibori works with discharge as well as natural and manufactured dyes. Inspiration for can come from pictures, nature, literature and theater. …

Learn the basics of the timeless craft of preparing a wool fleece, dying it in a rainbow of colors, carding and spinning singles and two-ply on a wheel to produce yarns for all your wooly projects. Explore additional spinning and plying techniques to take your yarn designing to the next level, from fabulous to funky! …

Fiberart International 2019 exhibiting artist, Beth Blankenship, is coming from Alaska to teach a one-day workshop. Students will be introduced to a technique that will give their beadwork a new dimension. Sculptural peyote stitch uses just beads, thread, and tension to create 3-dimensional objects. Add a new skill to your art practice toolbox. Image credit: beaded …

Participants in this low-tech workshop will learn many age-appropriate ways to make paper and paper making tools as well as many new ways to work with pulp with and without a mold and deckle and vat. Educators will be prepared to repeat processes and create tools for the classroom. Novice-Beginner…

Eco Printing is contact printing of plants onto fabric. In this 3 Day Eco Print workshop you will learn about plants, fabrics, equipment, processes and bundling techniques that create artful fabrics. Silk and wool fabrics are used because of their affinity for contact printing. While learning the printing process emphasis will be placed on artful …

Expand your Botanical Printing skills with Natural Dye Extracts and surface design techniques to create unique-to-you fabric. This is the perfect combination for textile artist who seek to increase their artistic skills while developing personal imagery….

We are all heirs to a wealth of inner personal resources that can take shape and form through the creative process of our art making. This workshop is ideal for all who want to explore design in new ways and open a door into furthering their artistic expression….

Use hand-stitched lines to draw on fabric exploring how the process of stitching and the materials selected give meaning to the work. Learn basic embroidery stiches and many styles of embroidery. Discuss traditional stitches, Blackwork, Sashiko and Boro. Create your own style of stitched drawings. Novic…

Create your own straw and felt hats with traditional millinery skills and contemporary techniques. Learn to block several different types of hats that create shape, flatter the wearer and fit the head (fedora, cloche, pillbox, boater and more). Embellish your hats with sewing techniques and by creating bows, flowers feathers and curls. Novice; it is …

Quilting by the Lake (QBL) began in 1981 as a four-day quilting conference in Cazenovia, NY, and has grown into a two-week, internationally recognized quilting event attracting over 200 participants from around the country and overseas. From the beginning, QBL recruited some of the most innovative and legendary quilters to teach and that tradition continues …

Explore low-immersion dying, Japanese Shibori, mono-printing, “deconstructed” and photo emulsion screen printing techniques using MX Fiber Reactive dye to create depth within a variety of natural fabrics. Focus on color removal, over-dying and printing to activate delectable, nuanced surfaces and textures. Choose to create yardage, a portfolio of samples or finished items. Novice-Intermediat…

In this intensive Rio will introduce you to a process she developed in 2008, called Composting. This technique uses harvested plants in combination with rust, immersion dyeing and concentrated extracts to create pattern and colors that speak from the essence of the plant. We will create dye baths with the plants she has collected from …

Matisse is our muse and starting off point in this intense workshop. After “deconstructing” Matisse, use your imagery to explore deconstructed screen-printing, charcoal, pastels, water-soluble media and textile paint. Learn how to make the “fugitive” materials such as charcoal and pastels permanent (even washable) on fabric and how to combine them with dye printed fabrics. …

Learn the basics of tapestry weaving with a wooden frame loom. Build your own frame loom, then design and create a woven tapestry fabric. Leave the class with a wall hanging and your own loom! Novice-Beginning…

Botanical printing– also known as eco-printing– has a large and dedicated following. The sustainability of materials and inherent organic beauty of the imagery is deliciously appealing. But consider a new twist on beloved printing methods. This workshop explores nine additions to botanical printing on paper/fabric substrates to create a series of collages suitable for framing, …

Do you feel that sometimes felt jackets can be bulky around the arms, and a bit shapeless? This jacket workshop is designed to use the features of tailoring to avoid this, whilst still keeping the stylish, seamless look of felt. Students will calculate their personal shrinkage rate and create their own felt pattern to size. …

Expand your vision of a digital print! Participants will be introduced to inkjet printing on fiber and mixed media substrates. The types of substrates that can be created are nearly limitless. Explore the possibilities! Based on Wen’s book- ‘Digital Fiber Art and Mixed Media Masterpieces’. The focus is on experimentation and construction of substrates! There …

NEW for 2019! Students will be creating new color families not previously dyed in Carol’s classes. This is a THIRD set of families, and we will be using some different yellow. red, and blue dyes as primaries than in previous classes. If you have been wanting a new set of samples, but would rather do …

The diary must have always existed in a primitive form, but the first regularly kept diary of daily reflections dates back to the late Renaissance period, when the importance of individualism began to take hold. During this time, people began to keep commonplace books where assemblages of notes, ideas, inspirations, recipes, and quotes were recorded …

Master basic needle-felting skills that will take you from beginner to intermediate in this 3-day course. Day 1: BASIC NEEDLE-FELTING (beginner to intermediate) • Heart Pendant (felting with a cookie cutter; felting an edge with felting boards) • Smoothing the Surface (taming the “fuzzies” with special dry- and wet-felting techniques) • Leaf and Acorn Decorations …