Register Online Now through February 7, 2024. Class Canceled
Join us for Denim Earrings with Wendy Arbeit.
Don’t throw out those old jeans! From the catwalk to practical use, denim is the new "it" fabric for the new year. We want to teach you how to recycle your old jeans into fashionable earrings. Complete your look with custom-made earrings to style a truly head-to-denim look.
We’ll suggest approaches to various designs, show you what kinds of findings to use, and provide all the materials you’ll need. We’ll also discuss transforming jeans into pendants and purses.
Bring scissors and, if you have them, jewelry tools and old jeans.
$10 materials fee includes fabric from jeans, jewelry findings, needle and thread, buttons, beads, and a handout.
What to bring:
- $10 supply fee
- Scissors
- Jewelry Tools*
- Old Jeans*
*If you have them, bring these items as well
Instructor Bio:
Wendy Arbeit received an MA in Art from Columbia University. She started making crafts from an early age and continued after her degree by learning the traditional arts of beading, back-strap weaving, basket making, and twining from Iroquois, Mexican, and Pacific island people. She learned sashiko and temari from Japanese books at a time when none were available in English and kumihimo at a Japan-sponsored program.
She has written four traditional-craft related books, What Are Fronds For? a manual for plaiting coconut fronds; Baskets in Polynesia, a survey of central Polynesian baskets; Tapa in Tonga, an introduction to Tongan barkcloth; and finally the award-winning, Links to the Past: the Work of Early Hawaiian Artisans, a compendium of 1000 objects made within 50 years of Western contact.
Hawaiʻi Handweavers' Hui members receive a discounted class fee. If you are interested in becoming a member please click HERE.
This class is open to adults, and minors ages 12-17 when accompanied by a parent or guardian. If you are interested in taking the class with your child, please register online and add your child as a guest. Those registering for a Hawaiʻi Handweavers’ Hui class may add one guest based on availability.
We require a minimum of three participants for each class. A full refund will be issued to those registered, if class is cancelled by Hawaiʻi Handweavers’ Hui. Refunds for class registration cancellation by participant will be issued in full only if the cancellation is made more than 14 days before the class begins.
MAP Downtown Art Center - Parking, Enter the Chinatown Gateway Garage from Bethel Street. Weekday rate: $3.00 for two hours, $1.50 for each additional 30 minutes. All-day weekday pass: $10.00 (park in the garage between 6:30 and 8:30 AM, and exit by 6 PM). Weekend rate: $.50 for 30 minutes, with a maximum fee of $3.00. All transactions by credit card.
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For more information contact: classes@hawaiihandweavers.org
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