Weaving on a Mayan Backstrap Loom with Sari Monroy Solís
Fibershed Learning Center 14000 Point Reyes - Petaluma Road, Point Reyes Station, CA, United StatesLearn to weave on a brocade-ready loom that you will take home The backstrap loom goes back thousands of years and is one of the oldest known tools in the world. It evolved in several places, including the Western highlands of Guatemala. Mayan weavers continue to make traditional clothing for everyday use and for the […]
Making a Felted Animal Mask with Kathy Brooks
Windrush Farm 2263 Chileno Valley Road, Petaluma, CA, United StatesJoin us, at Windrush Farm, and let's create adorable felted animal masks together! Kathy Brooks will teach you how to make a beautiful face-fitting wool mask. You will start by making a base by wet felting a batt to create a flat felt mat. Then, with felting needles, you will fill out the contours of […]
Northern CA Fibershed Coop @ Temescal Farmers’ Market
Temescal Farmers' Market 5300 Claremont Ave. (DMV), Oakland, CA, United StatesSUMMER SOLACE TALLOW X NORTHERN CA FIBERSHED COOP MARKETPLACE Visit the Summer Solace Tallow x Northern CA Fibershed Cooperative booth every other Sunday at the Temescal Farmers Market in Oakland. There you can peruse our curated selection of Fibershed products including locally spun yarn, Climate Beneficial™ felted home goods, handwoven shawls, blankets, luxurious sheepskins, as […]
4-Week Sessions – Marin Sewing Lab
Marin Sewing Lab 64 Louise Street, San Rafael, CA, United StatesMARIN SEWING LAB Learn to make your own clothing and home textiles at Sewing Lab! All skill levels are welcome to Sewing Lab where you get expert help to start and complete your projects! Why come to Sewing Lab? Come together in this class to make your own simple clothing and hone your sense of […]
Gallery Exhibit – Beauty and Terror by Robin Bernstein
450 Alger St, Fort Bragg, CA, United StatesRobin L Bernstein will be exhibiting a selection of works from Beauty and Terror, an 18 work series about the Holocaust, as well as work about contemporary issues. Each artwork is made by obsessively pressing thousands of tiny cut pieces of colored string into wax. The pieces in Beauty and Terror range from major aspects […]
4-Week Sessions – Marin Sewing Lab
Marin Sewing Lab 64 Louise Street, San Rafael, CA, United StatesMARIN SEWING LAB Learn to make your own clothing and home textiles at Sewing Lab! All skill levels are welcome to Sewing Lab where you get expert help to start and complete your projects! Why come to Sewing Lab? Come together in this class to make your own simple clothing and hone your sense of […]
Botanical Printing with Mayumi Fujio
Fibershed Learning Center 14000 Point Reyes - Petaluma Road, Point Reyes Station, CA, United StatesLearn to create beautiful botanical prints using fresh leaves, flowers, and minerals. Join us at the beautiful Fibershed Learning Center on Black Mountain Ranch near Point Reyes Station, CA, where Mayumi will introduce botanical printing using fresh leaves and flowers, along with minerals, to transfer natural colors and shapes from plants onto fiber. It is […]
Marin Sewing Lab
Marin Sewing Lab 64 Louise Street, San Rafael, CA, United StatesSewing Lab is a 4-week session with a 2.5-hour class per week. There are usually one daytime Sewing Labs and one evening Sewing Labs during each session. Each week a new sewing technique is demonstrated. The demonstration is usually 15 minutes long and cover basic sewing techniques. If you are brand new to sewing, I […]
Marin Sewing Lab
Marin Sewing Lab 64 Louise Street, San Rafael, CA, United StatesSewing Lab is a 4-week session with a 2.5-hour class per week. There are usually one daytime Sewing Labs and one evening Sewing Labs during each session. Each week a new sewing technique is demonstrated. The demonstration is usually 15 minutes long and cover basic sewing techniques. If you are brand new to sewing, I […]
Invasive Inks: Autumnal Bay Area Invasive Plants with Elissa Callen
Fibershed Learning Center 14000 Point Reyes - Petaluma Road, Point Reyes Station, CA, United StatesLed by artist and instructor Elissa Callen, learn how to identify and harvest “invasive” plants of the Bay Area autumnal landscape and turn them into inks for your painterly proclivities. This course will begin with an introduction to local plants and ecology, a short plant walk with applicable plant harvesting, and will follow with step-by-step […]