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Block Your Knits At Home! – VIRTUAL
VirtualIn this 1 hour online session, we'll cover the 3 different ways you can block your hand knits (or crochets). Have 3 projects ready to ask questions, and practice blocking! Set yourself near a water source (a sink, or a dish pan with warm water). What you'll need: 3 Projects or swatches to practice […]
Alternatives Now Training Series: Space, Place & Identity
VirtualShaping Alternative Futures Now: connecting the dots of intersectional justice is a Zoom-based Training Series facilitated by Teju Adisa-Farrar, who is currently working with Fibershed internally on a training series focused on practicing and supporting intentional equity.
Regenerating Our Textile Systems Course: Session 2
VirtualSession 2: Designing for True Circularity and Biological Systems Framing circularity within the capacity and design of natural systems, including a San Francisco Bay case study on micro-plastic fiber pollution. Core learnings: Learn about the current industry-led definition of circularity and example of circularity in practice Using holism to avoid life cycle “leakages” and externalized […]
Alternatives Now Training Series: Functionalizing Intersectionality
VirtualShaping Alternative Futures Now: connecting the dots of intersectional justice is a Zoom-based Training Series facilitated by Teju Adisa-Farrar, who is currently working with Fibershed internally on a training series focused on practicing and supporting intentional equity.
Alternatives Now Training Series: Language & Equitable Storytelling
VirtualShaping Alternative Futures Now: connecting the dots of intersectional justice is a Zoom-based Training Series facilitated by Teju Adisa-Farrar, who is currently working with Fibershed internally on a training series focused on practicing and supporting intentional equity.
Nuno Felted Garment Master Class with Sharit
Credo High School 1300 Valley House Drive, Suite 100, Rohnert Park, CAPLEASE NOTE: This is a 3 Day Workshop; July 3, 4 + 5; 10 am - 4 pm LOCATION: Credo High School; 1300 Valley House Dr. Suite 100 This 3-day workshop will focus on designing and making one-piece fashionable and wearable nuno felted garments; e.g. dresses or skirts. Students will explore the various […]
Fundamentals of Soil Health Workshop
VirtualJoin Napa RCD for a 2-day Fundamentals of Soil Health Online Workshop through Zoom. Please register for each day separately at the links below. Agenda (July 8, 8-11 am): Register Here through Zoom Learn about the importance of maintaining proper soil health. Learn about different biological, physical, and chemical soil properties and how these properties […]
Badass Brioche Level 2
Fiber Circle Studio 113 Kentucky St., Petaluma, CA, United StatesWelcome to Badass Brioche LEVEL TWO! If you've already done a little bit of brioche, this is the next step. This is a 2 session class that covers brioche in the round, flat and shaping the brioche using decreasing. We'll also get comfortable doing brioche on a fingering weight yarn for this lightweight cowl! […]
Let’s Talk… Regenerative Fiber
VirtualAlmost a decade ago, weaver and natural dyer Rebecca Burgess envisioned a ‘fibershed,’ a place-based textile system, similar to a watershed or foodshed, that could mitigate climate change, support farmer livelihoods, and strengthen regional economies. Today, Fibershed has pioneered a bioregional approach to regenerating ecosystems and decentralizing the textile supply chain. Join us this Thursday, […]
Live FEEDBACK FRIDAY with Fibershed Founder Rebecca Burgess
VirtualJoin us July 31st, 9 am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern for a live Zoom FEEDBACK FRIDAY with Fibershed Founder, Rebecca Burgess. Rebecca Burgess is the executive director of Fibershed, chair of the board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of Harvesting Color as well as Fibershed-Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy. […]