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Visible Mending Virtual Workshop
VirtualVisible Mending is a creative way to extend the life of clothing and household items while embellishing them for a unique look. We will cover woven mends with Speedweve style looms as well as decorative embroidery including reinforcing fabric through patching and using backstitch, split stitch, chain stitch, daisy stitch, French knots, and woven roses. […]
ReFashion Bainbridge: Virtual Conversation with Dominique Drakeford and Gabriel-Bello Lawrence-Diaz
VirtualPlease join us for a virtual conversation with Gabriel-Bello Lawrence-Diaz and Dominique Drakeford discussing how race and equality should always be a part of our sustainability conversation. Dominique Drakesford is a sustainability educator and environmental justice advocate who has worked with Fibershed and Conscious Chatter as well as helping to advise and promote many brands. […]
2021 Fibershed Wool & Fine Fiber Symposium
VirtualRegister Here This year’s symposium will begin with a conversation between those living and working to produce our global demand for textiles and those that receive the mounds of material that is discarded once clothing is deemed “uninteresting” or damaged. We’ll hear from members of the OR Foundation Community and the Garment Worker Center, who […]
Mushroom Dyeing – Virtual Class
VirtualThis is a 2 session virtual class. Date: October 23 + 30, 2021 Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM PST Registration Closes: October 13th, 2021 in order for receive materials on time. Curious about fungi? Have a love of fiber? Combine your interests and learn how to use mushrooms to create beautiful, vibrant, and nontoxic dyes […]
Tapestry Weaving – Virtual Class
VirtualThis is a virtual class. Date: June 26, 2021 Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm PST If weaving has caught your eye, but you're not sure where to start, tapestry weaving is a great place! In this workshop you'll learn how to warp, weave, finish and hang your tapestry, leaving with a beautiful, finished woven wall hanging, […]
EcoFashion Webinar – Fibershed and Carbon Cycle Institute
VirtualGlobal Shapers Cambridge Hub are happy to host Rebecca Burgess, from Fibershed for a talk and Q&A as part of our sustainable fashion project About this event Rebecca Burgess is the Executive Director of Fibershed, and Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute. She has over a decade of experience writing and implementing a […]
Fibersheds: Connecting Farmers, Artisans and Consumers to Grow Regional Economies – Panel Discussion
VirtualFibersheds: Connecting Farmers, Artisans, and Consumers to Grow Regional Economies Saturday, June 19 – 3:45 PM Eastern Time Part of the 2021 WARP Annual Meeting – June 18-20 - Unraveling Borders, Weaving Networks. The event will be free and open to all. Please mark your calendars, and click here to view our program of […]
Dye Garden – Extracting Color | Virtual Class
VirtualThis is a 2 session virtual class. Date: June 5 + 12, 2021 Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM PST Registration Closes: May 25, 2021 in order for receive materials on time. Discover the alchemy of natural dyes! Learn how to unlock the plants ‘tinctoria’ to discover all the dye plants growing around you. The serendipity […]
Indigo Dyeing + Vat Making – Virtual Class
VirtualThis is a 2 session virtual class. Date: May 15 + 22, 2021 Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM PST Registration Closes: May 5, 2021, in order to receive materials on time. Spend your morning playing with indigo in all its forms and reveling in the magic of blue. If you are curious about indigo and […]
One Acre Exchange Industrial Hemp Webinar
VirtualThe creation of a satellite regulatory environment for industrial hemp through the passage of the 2014 Farm Bill led to a cobbling of black, white, and grey procedures for the procurement and cultivation of industrial hemp seed. Hemp seed, when it is acquired, is so far an unpredictable performer across a wide variety of soil […]