Register Online Now through January 25, 2023.
Join us for Rigid Heddle Weaving I with Reina Young and Helen Rau
This class introduces new weavers to the portable rigid heddle loom. Weavers have the option to create a scarf, table runner, or placemats. We will go over different pattern techniques, play with color palettes, experiment with various fibers, and learn how to warp and dress the loom.
The rigid heddle loom is essentially a rectangular, wooden frame loom. However, it differs from the simple frame looms that are now readily available and often used for tapestry, as it has space for a heddle/reed, making it capable of producing sheds (gaps or spaces) to weave through. It is a 2 shaft loom, but has further reaching capabilities.
This class is open to any skill level. There will be an additional supply fee of $25, to include yarn and weaving tools, payable to the instructor on the first day of class. All supplies and materials will be provided.
What to Bring:
Instructor Bios
Reina Young is a multi media artist based in Hawaiʻi who specializes in fabric arts, digital illustrations and handmade, artisanal goods. With a background in graphic design, her passion is to create, teach and bring beauty and vibrancy into people’s lives through art and crafting.
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 in building, Chinatown Gateway Garage, enter on Bethel Street. Weekday rate: $3.00 for two hours, $1.50 for additional 30 minutes. Weekend rate: $.50 for 30 minutes, maximum fee of $3.00. All Day weekday pass: park your car before 10 am, take your ticket back up to the person in the kiosk and request the $10 all day pass. All transactions in cash.
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Register Online Now through January 21, 2023.
Join us for Taste of Spinning with Gina Taylor.
A passionate hand-spinner, Gina will teach students the basics of spinning to create yarn. Participants will be able to try out two different methods by using both a drop spindle and a spinning wheel to produce their own unique yarn.
While this class is geared toward the absolute beginner, all skill levels are welcome. Class size is limited to four students, and we invite anyone to join us.
Drop spindles, and spinning wheels will be available for use. Fiber will be provided, and students will be able to take home the yarn they produce.
Register Online Now through January 27, 2023.
Join us for Rag Rugs with Reina Young, Linda Hee & Linda Taylor.
Learn how to weave a rag rug. Have fun repurposing old materials to create something new. Draft your own unique rug design and bring it to life using a variety of plain-weave patterning techniques. Instructors will introduce the parts of a loom, explain how they work, and demonstrate how to measure a warp and dress the loom for weaving a rag rug.
By the end of the class, participants will know the basics of weaving a rug on a loom, and they will take home a one-of-a-kind 2'x3' creation.
There will be an additional $10 supply fee, payable to the instructor on the first day of class, which includes150 yards of rug warp, handouts and two sheets of graph paper.
Reina Young is a multi media artist based in Hawaiʻi, she specializes in fabric arts, digital illustrations and handmade, artisanal goods. With a background in graphic design, her passion is to create, teach and bring beauty and vibrancy into people’s lives through art and crafting.
Linda Taylor has been weaving since 2010. She wove her first rag piece that year and still finds endless possibilities — and surprises — in converting a truly tatty piece of fabric into an amazing rug.
MAP Downtown Art Center - Parking in building, Chinatown Gateway Garage, enter on Bethel Street: Weekend rate is $.50 for 30 minutes, maximum fee of $3.00.
Register Online Now through January 30, 2023.
Join us for Textile Tales with Liz Train.
Create a painted story quilt using techniques similar to the work of well-known artist and author Faith Ringgold. Draw or paint a memory or story from your own life with acrylic paints or fabric pastels then create a quilt border with assorted fabrics and embellishments.
Faith Ringgold is a mixed media artist who is well known for her children's book, Tar Beach. The book is illustrated with painted and quilted images depicting memories of her childhood.
Liz Train has taught this class to elementary education teachers as well as students of all ages including Iolani middle school students since 2005. Beginners are welcome!
There will be an additional $20 supply fee payable to the instructor which includes acrylic paint and fabric for painting.
Liz Train has an MFA in Fiber Arts from the University of Hawaiʻi where she taught fiber arts 1980-1987. She was a museum educator for the Contemporary Museum 1998-2005; and taught weaving and fiber arts 2006-2020 at the Honolulu Museum of Art School. She also worked with the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum's Art Bento outreach program to elementary schools, and taught after-school classes at Noelani Elementary School.
In addition to fiber art Liz enjoys working with ceramics, fused glass, printmaking and mixed media. Her work has been included in many juried and group exhibits, and is in the collection of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
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Register Online Now through January 31, 2023.
Join us for Tapestry in the Round with Reina Young
In this class, we will warp an embroidery hoop to create a circle loom. Learn basic weaving techniques and experiment with weaving across the circle. Circle weavings can be very improvisational and you can often go in with no plan and let the colors guide you through the experience.
There will be an additional supply fee of $35 to include embroidery hoop, tapestry needle and yarn, payable to the instructor on the first day of class. All supplies will be provided. This class is open to any skill level.
Instructor Bio
A multi media artist based in Hawaiʻi, Reina Young specializes in fabric arts, digital illustrations and handmade, artisanal goods. With a background in graphic design, her passion is to create, teach and bring beauty and vibrancy into people’s lives through art and crafting.
Register Online Now through January 28 2023.
Join us for Learn to Spin Using a Spinning Wheel with Gina Taylor.
Always wanted to learn how to spin? You can bring that wheel you acquired but are unsure how to use, or try one of Gina’s several different wheels. You will learn the basics of wheel spinning, about the parts of the wheel and how they function, how to treadle and adjust tension, how to transfer yarn from the bobbin to a niddy-noddy, and how to set finished yarn. You will also learn about the properties of different fibers, how to prep them for easy spinning, and how to make yarn using different finishing techniques.
If you have your own wheel, please bring it on the first day of class, and e-mail or text a picture of your wheel to Gina before class. Let Gina know if you will need to use one of her wheels. This class is designed for beginning to intermediate spinners.
Students will be able to take home the yarn they produce.
There will be a $10 supply fee for a variety of spinning fibers to try, payable to the instructor on the first day of class.
What to bring:
Register Online Now through February 1, 2023.
Join us for Colors that Sing! Colors that Sell!! with Mari Macmillan.
Learn how to put colors together so they play nicely together, rather than getting into a fight. This is not a class on color theory.
We will cover these topics:
VALUE - What is it, how to use it?
WARM and COOL colors - How to mix them?
PROPORTION - Ratio, zingers, and focal point.
CONTRAST - And the importance of NEUTRALS.
COLOR CARDS - Why you have problems using them.
There will be a $10 supply fee, for handouts, wheels, exercises, worksheets, payable to the instructor at class.
What to Bring
Mari has been weaving for over 30 years, and admits to being a color junkie. She has made lots of ugly stuff and has learned, finally, why some colors look truly AWFUL together in one combination and breathtakingly beautiful in another. You, too, can learn why this happens and how to plan a project that makes you happy.
Register Online Now through February 5, 2023.
Join us for Tapestry Rendezvous with Kathe Todd-Hooker.
The Rendezvous is all about weaving a tapestry from start to finish picking-up the skills and techniques as we weave. It's about weaving the image or pictures you want to weave. Saying what you want to weave.
Can't draw. Well, there are ways around that. Best of all there are no tapestry police that are going to come and take your loom away from you if you don't do it in a specific way. But here's the good thing-the great thing-once you learn a few basic skills. It can be as easy as using a coloring book, but with yarn and you can always weave outside the lines to tell your own narrative or not. I am not going to lie it does take practice and sometimes a bit of determination. So come and try it.
Tapestry is a plain weave construct in which the weft generally covers the warp and rarely goes all the way across the fell line. And there are ways to get ongoing help at no cost on Wednesdays.
The class is for all levels ... any level. I am very used to teaching multiple levels and at whatever level a weaver is weaving. My goal in every workshop is helping a weaver advance and acquire the skills that they need to weave and design their own narrative and pictorial tapestry. But most of all to do their own thing and love what they are doing and create their story, their narrative.
There is an additional $25 supply fee, payable to the instructor on the first day of class, which includes all the materials that the student will need, including paper for cartoons, and yarn for warp and weft. Kathe will bring small copper pipe looms for students to use with option to purchase. Or, you may bring your own tensioned loom (copper looms, Mirrix looms).
Wear comfortable clothing.
Kathe Todd-Hooker is an award-winning narrative tapestry weaver, dinosaur, instructor of tapestry and related arts since 1981, writer, author, NW native, an ardent student of myth and symbolism that seeps into her imagery. She has studied Gobelin, Swedish, British, Coptic, Middle Eastern and kesa, a tech nerd who specializes in synthesizing the techniques to solve technical and design problems in tapestry. Who teaches all levels of tapestry and Tapestry design.
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This class is open to adults from age 18. Those registering for a Hawaiʻi Handweavers’ Hui class may add one guest based on availability.
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Register Online Now through February 15, 2023.
Join us for Mixed Media II - What More Can I Do? with Liz Train.
What more can we do with mixed media surface design? This class will expand on some of the techniques learned in the first Mixed Media class: paper cloth combinations, printing techniques, simple tie dye, discharge dye, distressed felt, paper beads and other embellishments.
The class is suitable for beginners, and students who have already taken the Mixed Media Fabric Art class will be able to experiment and learn some new techniques.
There will be an additional $20 supply fee, payable to the instructor on the first day of class, which includes 1 yard of fabric, paints, dyes, glue.
Register Online Now through February 16, 2023.
Join us for Hand Brooms with Joan Namkoong
Simple hand brooms using broom corn and tampico fiber are useful around the house, office and weaving loom for dusting off bits and pieces! Learn to tie a turkey wing broom and a hawk’s tail broom — a simple process that’s fun and quick. You’ll make at least 3 or 4 during our session.
Joan Namkoong is a 30 year plus weaver who lives on the Big Island. She weaves and sells functional textiles like scarves, shawls, towels, rugs, runners and yardage for household use. Silk is her favorite thread followed by cotton. Plain weave is used most of the time on her 8- shaft Gilmore loom. She also uses a drawloom to weave complex images and patterns.
Join us for An Introduction to Weaving with Silk
A Presentation by Joan Namkoong
The most luxurious of fibers, silk can be a weaver’s best friend when you’re thinking about scarves, shawls and fabric for clothing. There’s lustrous, silky silk and nubby, textural silk and a variety of sizes to use in hand weaving. Learn about silk and its properties, how to handle it and use it on your loom – it’s easier than you think! A two hour lecture class, no weaving experience required.
Register Online Now through February 17, 2023.
Join us for Basic Weaving II with Joan Namkoong
A follow up class to Basic Weaving I, students will practice measuring a warp and setting up a loom. You’ll learn simple project design concepts, how different setts produce different fabric weights, how to incorporate a second color in your warp and weft and using different thicknesses of weft. Students will choose one of three projects: potholders, fingertip towel or runner.
By the end of class, weavers will have their one-of-a-kind project to take home.
Prerequisite: Basic Weaving I
Class: Introduction to Eco-Dyeing
Description: Eco-dyeing is a technique that uses the natural pigments of plants to imprint color and images onto fabric. We will use fresh plants and a non-toxic iron solution to print onto silk fabric which we will then gently steam. The resulting images are beautiful and unpredictable revealing themselves only after rinsing in clear water.
About your instructor: Gina is a longtime hand-spinner, weaver and dyer. She currently teaches spinning and Eco-dyeing at the DAC (Downtown Art Center) in Honolulu.
Price: $60 ($15 materials fee, $45 instruction fee)
Date and time: March 4, 2023. 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Deadline to sign up: 2/23/23
To sign up, visit the Eventbrite page: Eco-Dye Workshop. (Tickets on sale 1/23-2/23)
If you need help, call (808) 988-0461.
This class is offered in partnership with Lyon Arboretum. Learn more about them from their website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/lyon/
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Register Online Now through February 26, 2023.
Join us for Mini Picnic Basket with Elaine Imoto
Weave a six-pack picnic basket using industrial waste rescued from the dumpster. The bale straps are cleaned, cut to workable lengths and prepackaged for your weaving fun!
Seven long length straps are woven criss-cross style with 12 shorter length straps marked with a sharpie to stay centered. Vertical straps are spaced with a quarter inch gap, while horizontal straps are pressed together tightly for structural stability. The sturdy, finished basket measures 5.5 inches wide and 9.5 inches long.
A green handle of super stiff bale taken from a construction site is woven into the white basket. Bits of color are provided for embellishing your one-of-a-kind mini picnic basket.
This is an easy beginner project to get you hooked on making more baskets. Extra kits will be sold at class (if available).
Register Online Now through March 4, 2023.
Join us for Coil Bowl with Reina Young
There will be an additional supply fee of $25 payable to the instructor on the day of class. All supplies will be provided but if you would like to bring your own yarn, you may.
This class is open to any skill level.
Register Online Now through March 9, 2023.
Join us for The Botanical Dyeing Adventure with Ghislaine Chock.
Discover colors from plants and insects, and create a new palette, by intention or chance, using natural dyes. Dye your own yarns of cotton or wool for knitting or weaving projects, or fat quarters of cotton for quilting projects. Sustainability for a cloth-fiber dyer means using local, and sometimes not so local, materials to produce colors free of unfriendly chemical compounds.
During this 3-session class, we will treat your cellulose and protein fibers properly, with tannin and mordants, prior to dyeing with a variety of different botanical sources. We will explore possible values created with a selection of plants, and even an insect such as cochineal.
There will be an additional supply fee of $30 payable to the instructor on the day of class. The supply fee includes tannins, mordants, botanical dyes and cotton fat quarters.
Ghislaine has been weaving, dyeing, and quilting in Hawaiʻi for over 30 years.
Register Online Now through March 12, 2023.
Join us for Intro to Pysanky Egg Writing with Sara Ricer
Pysanky is a unique egg-decorating style which originated within Slavic cultures dating back to the pre-Christian era. Literally meaning "to write," the pysanky process (similar to batik fabric dyeing) involves drawing lines of wax to mask layers of color on eggs, which can result in intricate detailed designs and patterns.
This class will be an introduction to pysanky, where participants will learn some basic techniques and create simple multi-color designs on the interesting canvas of an egg. No experience required.
There will be a $20 supply fee, for kistka (hot-wax pen), beeswax, and dye, payable to the instructor on the day of class.
Sara Ricer - I think art should be accessible to everyone. My number one wish is that every person finds some way to create for the sake of creating. When creating, I like to give my pieces a little bit of whimsy and imagination, while still being functional. I like the idea that art can be carried around in your pocket. I like the idea that no space is too small for a little bit of imagination.
Register Online Now through March 18, 2023.
Join us for Making a Market Basket with Lynn Martin Graton.
In this class, Lynn will show you how to make a sturdy basket that can be used for everything from carrying your weaving supplies, to shopping at your local farmers market, to trips to the library. The basket is made from strips of reed, which is processed from the rattan vine. The finished size is approximately 12" high x 12" wide by 10" across.
The first day students will create the base and weave the body of the basket using a start and stop technique. On the second day, students will complete the body of the basket and finish the top with a lashed rim. The basket will be finished by inserting a wraparound handle of Shaker tape. Ways to "seal" the basket after taking it home will be discussed. Students will receive some notes on making another basket and a list of suppliers where they can order reed and Shaker tape.
There will be an additional $50 supply fee payable to the instructor on the first day of class which includes: rattan reed and shaker tape for handle.
MAP Downtown Art Center, Parking in building: Enter on Bethel Street, $3.00 for two hours, $1.50 for additional 30 minutes
Lynn J Martin Graton lives on Hawaiʻi Island and has a background in a variety of artistic mediums. She is currently working primarily in fiber arts – focusing on loom weaving, surface design, and a range of basketry traditions including traditional coconut frond weaving of the Pacific Islands. Lynn has held a number of solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions. Her artwork can be found in the permanent collections of the East-West Center and the Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the arts. An active photographer, Lynnʻs images have appeared in a number of exhibitions and publications including the covers of two Smithsonian Folklife Festival program books.
Lynn holds a M. A. Degree in Pacific Island Studies from the University of Hawai`i Manoa (UHM) with a focus on Pacific art history, received under scholarship from the East-West Center. She holds a B.A. in Art (ceramics and sculpture) and secondary art education certification from the University of Guam. Her career was spent as a folklorist and arts administrator working for the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (1983-1998), the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts (1998-2014), and the historic Sanborn Mills Farm in central New Hampshire (2014-2019). As a folklorist she curated exhibitions and concerts to honor tradition bearers, produced a number of audio recordings and publications, and oversaw major folklife festival programs including four in connection with the Smithsonian Institutionʻs Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Her last five years at the NH arts council, was spent serving as Executive Director overseeing strategic planning, public art projects, and grants to major nonprofits. https://www.lynnmartingraton.com/
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Join us for Eco Dye Scarf I with Gina Taylor.
Eco dyeing is a special technique that uses the natural pigments of plants to imprint color and images onto fabric.
We will use local plants and flowers in season and print onto Silk scarves which are wrapped into bundles and then steamed. The resulting images are beautiful and unpredictable revealing themselves only after the bundles are unwrapped!
No experience required for this class.
There will be a $15 supply fee, for silk scarf and dye stuffs, payable to the instructor on the first day of class. Instructor will provide all materials.
Register Online Now through March 24, 2023.
Join us for Basic Weaving I with Joan Namkoong
New weavers will learn the basics of floor loom weaving: how it works, how to set it up and how warp and weft interlace to create cloth. Basic weaving structures — plain weave, twill, basketweave, how to use different fibers, determining the sett of cloth and how hand woven cloth is made from start to finish are all in this 3 day class. (Instructor work in photo)
By the end of class, weavers will have a cotton sampler or a runner to take home. (Student work in photo )
There will be an additional $10 supply fee payable to the instructor on the first day of class.
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