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Join us for Hanging Basket with Elaine Imoto
Weave industrial waste of white or black plastic bale straps into useful hanging baskets! Air plants love these baskets and bromeliads thrive in a soft mossy bed.
Hanging plants will need a mesh insert for holding in potting mix. Larger baskets can hold green plastic store pots. Customize future sizes to your personal space. The tiny 4” x 4” footprint size makes this project a snap to finish in under 3 hrs! A second basket kit will be provided to make in class or at home! Tin snips will provided by instructor.
Instructor Elaine supplies all bales (OK to bring personal stashes) tape measure, rulers, and limited clothes pins ( return at end of class).
This is an easy beginner project and open to all skill levels to get you hooked on making more baskets. Extra kits will be sold at class (if available). Elaine is teaching techniques learned from Professor Gaye Chan's demo during the 12-2021 Artists of Hawaiʻi Now exhibition held at the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Weave, Reuse, Recycle!
What to bring:
- Sharp scissors
- Flat nose beading pliers or long nose craftsman tool pliers
- 20 narrow wooden clothespins. NO plastic clips please. Too weak. Too wide.
- requires additional: dry cleaner wire hanger
- OPTIONAL: 6” x 6” square of weed blocker mesh for dirt (or old patio screen)
- Ruler or tape measure (optional)
- Snacks and beverages
Instructor Bio
A long time Honolulu Museum of Art (HOMA) volunteer, Elaine Imoto learned to weave baskets with bale straps from Professor Gaye Chan of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Imoto took Chan’s reuse & recycle class in the December 2021 HOMA Artists of Hawaii Now program at which these weaving materials (the bales) were handed out.
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 from age 18. 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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