Register Online Now through March 9, 2025. Cancelled
Join us for Threaded Stitch Sashiko with Wendy Arbeit.
For the first time in our Sashiko series, we’re presenting the threaded stitch form, called kugurizashi. It’s a unique approach based on threading through a field of repeating running stitches to make a completely different pattern. The two samples you sew can be placed into a frame we supply, or made into a coaster, or sewn onto a tote bag, or become part of a placemat.
If time allows, we’ll discuss one of the many other patterns you can do at home.
In this class you’ll learn about the history of sashiko and be able to see many other examples of this method. This class is suitable for all levels. Those new to Sashiko will have comfort in knowing that the cloth with its evenly spaced holes guarantees that your stitches will automatically come out even and evenly spaced. Old Sashiko hands will experience working on a grid and be exposed to the potentials of threading through stitches.
Please bring scissors and the $10 materials fee. We’ll provide the special Aida cloth and Sashiko thread, needle and sewing thread, fabric and handouts.
What to bring:
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.
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How do I get to the Studio? From the Chinatown Gateway Garage, take the elevator to the 2nd floor and walk to the large double doors on the left. Enter the gallery and turn left; we are the last door on the left, past the kitchen. If you are parked elsewhere, walk up the steps to the DAC gift shop, go past it to find the elevator, and follow the instructions above to access the studio. There is a handicap ramp if you cannot walk up the stairs for the DAC building on the Nu'uanu entrance side. Walk towards the street lights, and you will see the ramp; you will need to walk through the courtyard to the elevator.
For more information contact: classes@hawaiihandweavers.org
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