September 2021
Fibershed Learning Center Opening Workshop
Our Northern California Fibershed Learning Center will hold a soft grand opening, September 18, 2021, celebrated through the classes that will provide hands-on skills to the community, as well as time to gather in appreciation of local design community graduates who generated beautiful textiles within Fibershed’s Zero-Waste design challenge. Available classes: Make a Twined Basket of Tule with Charlie Kennard and Charlena Valencia (sold-out) Indigo Extract Process — from leaf to pigment — with Judi Pettite Making a Lake Pigment…
Find out more »October 2021
Introduction to Nature Journaling with Ayesha Ercelawn
Join Ayesha for a morning of nature journaling at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station. Bring your curiosity and love of nature to join Ayesha for a morning of nature journaling in the Fibershed gardens. We will draw inspiration from the practices of renowned Bay Area Nature Journaler John Muir Laws to focus our attention and deepen our observations of nature. You do NOT have to be an artist or writer to join us! Just bring your sense…
Find out more »Botany for Beginners with Ayesha Ercelawn
Join Ayesha for a morning to learn about the basics of botany at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station. During this hands-on class, you will improve your observation skills and learn to look for some of the key characteristics that botanists use to identify plants. Fall season classes will focus on leaves, bark, seed structures, and stem arrangements. We will touch on plant families and discuss the natural history and ecology of some of the plants we see.…
Find out more »Botany for Beginners with Ayesha Ercelawn
Join Ayesha for a morning to learn about the basics of botany at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station. During this hands-on class, you will improve your observation skills and learn to look for some of the key characteristics that botanists use to identify plants. Fall season classes will focus on leaves, bark, seed structures, and stem arrangements. We will touch on plant families and discuss the natural history and ecology of some of the plants we see.…
Find out more »Natural Palettes of Seasonal Color in West Marin with Sasha Duerr
Join Sasha onsite at the Fibershed Learning Center in Point Reyes Station for a day of exploring fall color and the natural palettes of seasonal color in Northern California. We will gather a variety of onsite ingredients, then make and use natural dye baths with those ingredients and others. Together we will create a local fall dye palette from a curated selection of gathered ingredients, including weeds and food and flora waste. Explore the nuances and beauty of color…
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