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North American Indigo Colloquium co-presented with Slow Fiber Studios INDIGO from PLANTS, or PETROLEUM? : Transparency, Traceability, and Farm-to-Trade
North American Indigo Colloquium co-presented with Slow Fiber Studios INDIGO from PLANTS, or PETROLEUM? : Transparency, Traceability, and Farm-to-Trade
North American Indigo Colloquium co-presented with Slow Fiber Studios INDIGO from PLANTS, or PETROLEUM? : Transparency, Traceability, and Farm-to-Trade Colloquium | March 31 | 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden Sponsor: Botanical Garden Slow Fiber Studios and UC Botanical Garden will collaborate in presenting the North American Indigo Projects with guest speakers, including world-renowned […]
Embroidery 101 with Amy Keefer
Embroidery 101 with Amy Keefer
Get ready to embellish and personalize garments, or create original works of art! This workshop will help you begin drawing and painting on fabric with thread. We will cover several basic stitches such as outline stitches, chain stitches and their variations, french knots and filling stitches. You will also learn to properly place fabric in […]
Embroidery 101 with Amy Keefer
Embroidery 101 with Amy Keefer
Embroidery 101 with Amy Keefer Get ready to embellish and personalize garments, or create original works of art! This workshop will help you begin drawing and painting on fabric with thread. We will cover several basic stitches such as outline stitches, chain stitches and their variations, french knots and filling stitches. You will also learn […]
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Sheep & Grapes Workshop
Sheep & Grapes Workshop
A workshop about the production, soil health, and climate benefits of integrating sheep into the vineyard. Hear from Wine Country farmers, as well as university and extension specialists. When: Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 8:30 am – 3:00 pm Where: Napa Valley College, Student Activity Center, 2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway, Napa, CA 94558 (see map) […]
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THE GRASSFED EXCHANGE Regeneration Rising
The Grassfed Exchange Conference is a gathering of regenerative ranchers, dairymen, and sustainable food supporters from across the world who come together to network and exchange ideas. We desire to help producers and consumers grow in the knowledge of the grassfed industry.
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Community Knitting
Community Knitting
Connect with your fellow Bay Area knitters! Need some pattern or yarn advice for your next project or just looking for a friendly group to chat with while getting some rows done? Come to our free community knitting event and share your latest WIP! Everyone is welcome -- feel free to bring a friend and […]
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Tapestry Weaving Class
Tapestry Weaving Class
Tapestry Weaving Class April 5-6, 2019 at Warner Mountain Weavers in Cedarville, California. We are excited to be offering a Tapestry Weaving class at Warner Mountain Weavers in Cedarville, CA. This one time class will be taught by Keyaira Terry. Keyaira will be traveling up from the Bay Area just to teach this class. […]
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Tule Berry-Gathering Basket Workshop with Charlie Kennard
Tule Berry-Gathering Basket Workshop with Charlie Kennard
~This workshop is full. ~ Click the "Register Now" here to join the waitlist. Enjoy a delightful day full of hands-on learning in Heron Hall and around the peaceful Laguna Environmental Center grounds with master weaver, Charlie Kennard. Using tule, (a giant species of sedge native to the Laguna and freshwater marshes all over […]
The Natural Baby Series: Blanket
The Natural Baby Series: Blanket
In April, we focus on natural handwoven textiles for the baby. All projects in this series will be made using 100% cotton. Arguably the most important textile fiber, cotton is soft, absorbent, light, vegan and naturally hypoallergenic. Take classes in this series to make cloths for your own baby or to give to a special, […]
Knit A Triangle Shawl [Level 3]
Knit A Triangle Shawl [Level 3]
Knit A Triangle Shawl Learn the basics of increasing and decreasing while making a cute and functional triangle shawl! This class is great for beginners who know how to cast on and knit and want the next step! It helps to have experience purling, but it is not required. All materials are included! Ages: 18+ […]
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Pick-Up on Four Shafter
Pick-Up on Four Shafter
For the month of April, weaving workshops will focus on pick-up techniques that can be used on three different weave structures: beiderwand, mock damask, and double weave. Pick-up is the process in which a warp pattern is picked up with a stick in order to weave patterns not otherwise possible on threading and tie-ups alone. […]
The Natural Baby Series: Blanket
The Natural Baby Series: Blanket
In April, we focus on natural handwoven textiles for the baby. All projects in this series will be made using 100% cotton. Arguably the most important textile fiber, cotton is soft, absorbent, light, vegan and naturally hypoallergenic. Take classes in this series to make cloths for your own baby or to give to a special, […]
Community Indigo Vat
Community Indigo Vat
Community Indigo Vat Come dip your hands (and fabric) in the sea of Sonoma County Blue! Fibershed member, Craig Wilkinson, has provided our community with it's first locally grown Japanese indigo vat. This is a unique indigo recipe as the color comes from composted indigo (sukumo) opposed to an extract or pigment. During the 90 […]
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Community Indigo Vat
Community Indigo Vat
Community Indigo Vat Come dip your hands (and fabric) in the sea of Sonoma County Blue! Fibershed member, Craig Wilkinson, has provided our community with it's first locally grown Japanese indigo vat. This is a unique indigo recipe as the color comes from composted indigo (sukumo) opposed to an extract or pigment. During the 90 […]
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Community Indigo Vat
Community Indigo Vat
Community Indigo Vat Come dip your hands (and fabric) in the sea of Sonoma County Blue! Fibershed member, Craig Wilkinson, has provided our community with it's first locally grown Japanese indigo vat. This is a unique indigo recipe as the color comes from composted indigo (sukumo) opposed to an extract or pigment. During the 90 […]
Community Knitting
Community Knitting
Connect with your fellow Bay Area knitters! Need some pattern or yarn advice for your next project or just looking for a friendly group to chat with while getting some rows done? Come to our free community knitting event and share your latest WIP! Everyone is welcome -- feel free to bring a friend and […]
Fiber Artists’ Night Out
Fiber Artists’ Night Out
Want to meet some like-minded fiber enthusiasts? Love to hang out and knit, crochet, spin, embroider, weave, etc. with others? Then this is the event for you! Join us on the second Thursday evening of the month at Crockett Fiber Arts Studio in Crockett. Bring a project to work on and a snack to share. […]
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Benizaa Culture Share & Potluck
Benizaa Culture Share & Potluck
Samuel Bautista Lazo invites Petaluma and North Bay Community to Benizaa (Zapotec) Cultural Talk of weaving motif symbolism, natural plant dyes, and Benizaa cultural stories. Guests attending cultural talk are also invited to a casual community Potluck. Please bring light food or beverage to share. Traditional Oaxacan Cacao drink will be provided. SPACE IS […]
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DIXZA RUGS| Cultural talk and Weaving Workshop w/Samuel Bautista Lazo
DIXZA RUGS| Cultural talk and Weaving Workshop w/Samuel Bautista Lazo
1 Day Weaving workshop: Learn how to create textile weaving motifs, patterns, and techniques on a small hand-held frame loom. Samuel Bautista Lazo, is a Zapotec (Benizaa) weaver from Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico. He is visiting California to share his family’s weaving heritage, the Indigenous way of life and cultural craft of the […]
Natural Dyeing (Fabric + Yarn)
Natural Dyeing (Fabric + Yarn)
Brooke Sinnes of Sincere Sheep, a natural dye company based in Napa, CA, will be sharing her knowledge and skills of natural dyeing on both wool yarn and cotton fabric! In this all-day workshop, you’ll spend the morning learning about mordanting followed up by dyeing yarn in 4 different natural dye pots. After a 1-hour […]
The Natural Baby Series: Washcloth
The Natural Baby Series: Washcloth
In April, we focus on natural handwoven textiles for the baby. All projects in this series will be made using 100% cotton. Arguably the most important textile fiber, cotton is soft, absorbent, light, vegan and naturally hypoallergenic. Take classes in this series to make cloths for your own baby or to give to a special, […]
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Twined Sweetgrass Basket with Charlie Kennard
Twined Sweetgrass Basket with Charlie Kennard
We will begin small twined baskets made with a diminutive relative of tule (Schoenoplectus americanus) known as “sweetgrass” among native weavers in the Pacific Northwest. As well as being fragrant, it is strong and soft, and lends itself to a variety of weaving strokes. Charlie Kennard of San Anselmo is a long-time basket weaver […]
Pick-Up on Four Shafter
Pick-Up on Four Shafter
For the month of April, weaving workshops will focus on pick-up techniques that can be used on three different weave structures: beiderwand, mock damask, and double weave. Pick-up is the process in which a warp pattern is picked up with a stick in order to weave patterns not otherwise possible on threading and tie-ups alone. […]
The Natural Baby Series: Washcloth
The Natural Baby Series: Washcloth
In April, we focus on natural handwoven textiles for the baby. All projects in this series will be made using 100% cotton. Arguably the most important textile fiber, cotton is soft, absorbent, light, vegan and naturally hypoallergenic. Take classes in this series to make cloths for your own baby or to give to a special, […]
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Community Knitting
Community Knitting
Connect with your fellow Bay Area knitters! Need some pattern or yarn advice for your next project or just looking for a friendly group to chat with while getting some rows done? Come to our free community knitting event and share your latest WIP! Everyone is welcome -- feel free to bring a friend and […]
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Wet Felting
Wet Felting
Felting, while rather counterintuitive for a spinner, is such a fun thing to do. Wet Felting is a regular at the studio and the results are always stunning. You can register here. 90 minutes, $60.
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Japanese Mending as Utility and Embellishment with Jody Alexander
Japanese Mending as Utility and Embellishment with Jody Alexander
Japanese mending techniques are used to repair and strengthen garments and other textile items. But, when left visible the repairs are also decorative and add texture, line, and color. In this workshop, students will create a sampler of mending techniques seen in Japanese boro textiles and will then move on to repairing or embellishing a […]
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Pick-Up on Four Shafter
Pick-Up on Four Shafter
For the month of April, weaving workshops will focus on pick-up techniques that can be used on three different weave structures: beiderwand, mock damask, and double weave. Pick-up is the process in which a warp pattern is picked up with a stick in order to weave patterns not otherwise possible on threading and tie-ups alone. […]
Wool Processing for Spinning
Wool Processing for Spinning
It’s Shearing Season! Don’t know what to do with a raw fleece? I can teach you that! In my Wool Processing for Spinning class, you’ll learn how to select a fleece, prepare fiber for washing, the washing process, and preparation of washed and dried iober for spinning using a drum carder, hand cards, and […]
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“Loved Clothes Last” Mending Bar
“Loved Clothes Last” Mending Bar
Each year the United States sends 12.8 million tons of textile waste to landfill. As style turnover has accelerated, so has our appetite for new, trendy clothing. Today we buy 4 times as much clothing as we did two decades ago, yet we get 36% less wear out of our garments before we discard them. […]
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Duckworth Farm’s Annual Sheep Shearing
Duckworth Farm’s Annual Sheep Shearing
It’s that time of year again! Please join us for our annual Sheep Shearing Day on Duckworth Family Farm. This year our shearer is John Sanchez, truly one of the best in the industry. Watch and learn as he shears sheep with compassion and such skill that he makes it looks easy. Our […]
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Sewing Lab
Sewing Lab
SEWING LAB A love of adornment is one of our most basic tendencies. It exists in all cultures, telling stories about who we are and how we see ourselves. Come together in this class to make your own simple clothing and hone your sense of personal style. Be inspired to develop your skills in a […]
Community Knitting
Community Knitting
Connect with your fellow Bay Area knitters! Need some pattern or yarn advice for your next project or just looking for a friendly group to chat with while getting some rows done? Come to our free community knitting event and share your latest WIP! Everyone is welcome -- feel free to bring a friend and […]
Sewing Lab– Garment Construction
Sewing Lab– Garment Construction
Sewing Lab– Garment Construction—All levels—On-going class. A love of adornment is one of our most basic tendencies. It exists in all cultures, telling stories about who we are and how we see ourselves. Come together is this class to make your own simple clothing and hone your sense of personal style. Be inspired to develop […]
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Weave a Soft Twined Basket
Weave a Soft Twined Basket
We will begin small, twined baskets made with a diminutive relative of tule, known as “sweetgrass” among native weavers in the Pacific Northwest. As well as being fragrant, it is strong and soft, and lends itself to a variety of weaving strokes and color treatments. Instructed by Charles Kennard Youth, ages 12 and up, […]
Color and Hand Papermaking
Color and Hand Papermaking
Create your own handmade paper with colored pulps using Western and Japanese techniques. Learn to use dyes and pigments to color pulp as well as natural dyes and the natural color of different plant fiber pulps. Your handmade paper can be used for painting or drawing with watercolors, inks, dry media, acrylics, oil, encaustic, and […]
Dye Self Patterning Yarn (Using Blanks)
Dye Self Patterning Yarn (Using Blanks)
Come explore the fun of dyeing Sock Blanks! Sock blanks are pre-knitted rectangles that allow the dyer to create patterns and random designs. We will go over techniques for gradients, geometric patterns, random shapes and patterns, speckles, and stripes. Sock blanks, though often used for knitting socks, can also be knit into any project! You'll […]
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The Natural Baby Series: Carrier
The Natural Baby Series: Carrier
In April, we focus on natural handwoven textiles for the baby. All projects in this series will be made using 100% cotton. Arguably the most important textile fiber, cotton is soft, absorbent, light, vegan and naturally hypoallergenic. Take classes in this series to make cloths for your own baby or to give to a special, […]
Knitting – Badass Brioche!
Knitting – Badass Brioche!
Knitting - Badass Brioche! Welcome to work of Badass Brioche! Why Badass you ask? You get dimension, contrast and squish all in one! Plus, this project takes a comfortable, intermediate knitter into the world of "advanced"! Yee ha! We'll be making this darling cowl where you'll experience knitting brioche with two colors, in the round! […]
From Spindle to Spinning Wheel
From Spindle to Spinning Wheel
From Spindle to Spinning Wheel Instructor: Valerie Yep Have you learned to spin on a spindle and now want to explore spinning wheels? Or perhaps you have just acquired a wheel and would like to learn more about it. Well, here's your chance! We will cover the parts of the wheel, how the wheel […]
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