Register Online Now through September 29, 2021.
Join us for a Woven Shibori Adventure with Ghislaine Chock.
This class is open to the public and limited to nine students. There are 10 weekly sessions meeting on Wednesdays from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, beginning on October 6th. Participants must be able to warp a four to eight harness loom.
Hawaiʻi Handweavers' Hui members receive a discounted class fee. If you are interested in becoming a member please click HERE. There will be an additional $30 supply fee payable to the instructor which includes: yarn, cord locks, Indigo, other plant dyes, and dye modifiers.
MAP Downtown Art Center, Parking in building: Enter on Bethel Street, $3.00 for two hours, $1.50 for additional 30 minutes
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Ghislaine will guide you through each step of creating a unique shibori weaving based on her 30 years of weaving and dyeing textiles in Hawai‘i. She guarantees you won’t get lost. Her exquisite weavings, functional and non-functional, have been widely exhibited and are both in use and on display in private collections.
Woven shibori sounds complicated but it is really quite simple. First, weave fabric with a pattern of temporary weft threads woven along a permanent plain-weave cotton background. Next, take the cloth off the loom and gather the temporary threads to create a resist based on your selected woven pattern. And this is when the fun really begins, as we add color using an indigo vat and dye pots of various plant materials. Your finished piece will be your own unique creation.
Items to bring for this class:
For more information contact: hawaiihandweavershui@gmail.com
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HHH TERMS OF USE for Woven Shibori Adventure.pdf
HHH COVID POLICY for Woven Shibori Adventure.pdf
Register Online Now through 6:00 pm on October 9, 2021.
Join us for Beginning Batik with Liz Train.
This class is open to the public and limited to eight students. There are six weekly sessions meeting on Thursdays from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm beginning on October 14th. Hawaiʻi Handweavers' Hui members receive a discounted class fee. If you are interested in becoming a member please click HERE. There will be an additional $20 supply fee payable to the instructor which includes: one yard of fabric, paints, dyes, wax, and glue.
With her lively, inventive approach to making art, Liz will show you how to make your imagination come to life with color and wax.
Liz Train has an MFA in Fiber Arts from the University of Hawaiʻi where she taught fiber arts from 1980-1987. She was a museum educator for the Contemporary Museum from 1998-2005; and taught weaving and fiber arts from 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 Art.
Batik is an Indonesian word meaning writing with wax. Waxed areas create a resist design that dyes and paint cannot penetrate. Traditional batik techniques involve successive applications of wax and dye, submersing the fabric in a dye vat, one color at a time and layering the wax resist.
In this class we use a more modern technique of painting diluted acrylic paints instead of vat dyes. This allows the artist to create a variety of colors next to each other without the colors mixing with the previous layer. Traditional Indonesian tools and brushes will be used to apply hot soy wax resist to the fabric. Resist and dyed areas can be layered to create complex designs and lovely textures. Students will be able to create several samples of finished artworks.
For more information contact: hhhui.classes@gmail.com
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HHH TERMS OF USE for Beginning Batik.pdf
HHH COVID POLICY for Beginning Batik.pdf
Register Online Now through October 23, 2021.
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.
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.
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HHH TERMS OF USE for Taste of Spinning.pdf
HHH COVID POLICY for Taste of Spinning.pdf
Join us for Taste of Weaving with Mary Macmillan.
In this introduction to weaving, Mary will teach students to use a floor loom that is warped and set up to weave material approximately 10-12 inches wide. Emphasis will be on learning how to throw a shuttle and pack weft evenly, while keeping edges uniform. Looms and materials are provided and students will be able to take their piece home.
This class is open to the public and limited to four students.
HHH TERMS OF USE for Taste of Weaving.pdf
HHH COVID POLICY for Taste of Weaving.pdf
Register Online Now through October 30, 2021.
Register Online Now through January 8, 2022.
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