ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS announces a three day workshop on Shibori techniques. November 15-17, 2019. Shibori is an ancient Japanese resist dye process dating back to the 8th century. Three-dimensional patterns can be created by stitching, pleating, folding, clamping, or twisting fabric and tightly secured before dyeing. In this workshop you will be introduced to several of these techniques. Combining techniques will be discussed so that you can create unique patterning. Choose the techniques you like and leave the rest or try them all. It’ll be up to you. Indigo dye will be the primary dye used. However, color will be used when combining multiple techniques to add interest and dimension to patterns. FMI: contact Kathleen Goddu at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
AULA ARTESANA. Welcome to the Andes mountains, where for centuries, Andean campesino communities have raised alpaca and sheep, shearing, spinning and dyeing their wool to eventually create textile art unique to this region. Aula Artesana invites you to join us for our inaugural Tintes & Textiles workshop, a six-day experience, on September 1, 2019, featuring immersive weaving and natural dye workshops and local activities in the Sacred Valley of Cusco. FMI: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., https://www.aulaartesana.com/events/tintes-textiles-cusco, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
CASCO BAY CRAFT SCHOOL announces "Textile Arts: Explore and Create Surface Design and Collage," a workshop with artist Catherine Worthington. Sept 21-24, 2019. Also, Anna Helpler, "from flat to round: exploring the sculptural properties of paper and cardboard," September 24-27, 2019. FMI: https://www.cascobaycraft.com/workshopsfees, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
CATHERINE WORTHINGTON offers workshops during November 2019 and January 2020. Be in touch with her for dates and times that work for you. Classes include: “Paint, Piece and Stitch a Landscape,” “Textile Paint Workshop,” “Make Frame-able Art Cards,” and “Sew a Zipper Pouch.” FMI: www.catherineworthingtonart.com/classes
“FELTERS’ FLING 2019,” August 18-24, 2019, Silver Bay YMCA Conference and Retreat Center, Silver Bay, New York. Nine 2-, 3-, and 5-day workshops to choose from. “A celebration of felt making techniques and the artists who create them.” Registration opens January 6. Workshops by Angelika Werth, Fiona Duthie, Katia Mokeyeva, Molly Williams, Rio Wrenn, and Roxanne Lasky. FMI: www.fiberfling.com
FIBER COLLEGE OF MAINE hosts classes September 4-8, 2019, including: “Four Harness Weaving for Beginners,” Alice Seeger; “Aran Sweater Knitting and Design,” Kris Bridges and Anna Kessler; “Machine Knitting,” Allysun West; “Katano Shibori,” Kathleen Goddu; “Tapestry: Warp, Weft, Wow!” Barbara Burns; “Eco Printing,” Mary DeLano; “Bittersweet Basket,” Tina Puckett; “Create with Beautiful Handwoven Fabric,” Susan Perrine; “French Canadian Smocking,” Regie Messamore; “Winona Sun Ice Dye,” Maryly Matthewman; “Knitting a Diagonal Sweater or Tunic/Dress,” Katharine Cobey; “Antique Spinning Wheels,” Brenda Page and Jan Cunningham; “Crochet Edging for Knitters,” Laurie Sims; and many more. FMI: www.fibercollege.org
FLYING WITH SCISSORS STUDIO announces a new retreat: “Japanese Piecing and Slow Stitching” in Live Well Farm, a cozy farmhouse setting in Harpswell, Maine, February 14-17, 2020. Instructors: Kimberly Becker and Berri Kramer. Details: https://www.flyingwithscissorsstudio.com/details. Registration: https://www.flyingwithscissorsstudio.com/register
HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS offers workshops, residencies and a Summer Conference in their new catalog for Summer 2019 (June through August). Textile classes include; “Hand-Weaving 101,” with Christy Matson; “Social Paper: Using Text, Image, Paper, and Print for Social Practice,” Mary Tasillo and Michelle Wilson; “Obtainium/Embellish’um,” Jim Drain; “Home is Everywhere,” Doug Johnson; “Embodied Line,” Courtney Puckett; “Pulp Fictions: Developing Narratives through Papermaking,” Krista Franklin; “Around the World with Natural Color,” Kathy Hattori; “Sculptural Paper Craft: Form and Freedom,” Michael Velliquette; and “Discovering a Mindful Stitching Practice,” Christine Mauersberger. Summer Conference, July 7-11 entitled, “Craft and History: Writing a History, Preserving a Field.” FMI: www.haystack-mtn.org
HAYSTACK OPEN DOOR, October 11-14, 2019, Intensive Fall Studio Workshops for Maine Residents. Classes in blacksmithing, Ceramics, Fab Lab, Fiber, Graphics, Metals, Wood and Writing. The Fiber workshop is “Casting Shade,” with Ani Hoover: use weaving macramé, and crochet to transform a basic lampshade armature into works of art. Applications processed on a lottery system; email notification by September 13. FMI: 207-348-2306; www.haystack-mtn.org
MAINE COLLEGE OF ART CONTINUING STUDIES, Fall 2019 hosts classes in paintings, creative practice, printmaking, jewelry, drawing, fashion and textile design, graphic design, paper and book arts, and woodworking and furniture. Weekend textiles classes include: “Skirt Workshop,” September 21 with Betsy Scheintaub and “Experimental Weaving,” October 19, with Hannah Adams. Also weekly classes include: “Fashion Sewing,” Cheslye Ventimiglia; “Introduction to Sewing,” Ashley Wernher-Collins; “Experimental Weaving,” Hannah Adams; and “Fiber Structures,” Hanna Adams. FMI: www.meda.edu
MORGAN ART OF PAPERMAKING hosts Summer Workshops 2019 in: 18th Century Italian Pasteboard Binding, Eco-Style Print for Artist Books, Reduction Block Printing, Reinventing Slot and Tab Binding, Letterpress Collaboration, Monotype and Friends, Papermaking with Local and Natural Fibers, Paper by Design, Sculpting with Kozo and many more. FMI: 216-3614-9255; www.MorganConservatory.org
PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT: Fall 2019; Spring 2020. Fall Concentration, eight-week workshops September 22-November 15, 2019 include clay, glass, iron, metalws, paper/printmaking, textiles, and wood. The Paper/Printmaking is with Georgia Deal and is entitled “Paper and the Unique Print.” Textiles with Bhakti Ziek: The Vocabulary of Weaving.” One-Week Sessions, October 6-12 in glass, photography, Mindfulness & Making, artists’ books, letterpress, and encaustic painting. One-Week Session III, November 3-9, 2019 in clay, metals and textiles: A Place for Tools,” with Leigh Hilbert. Spring Concentration, March 8 - May 1, 2020 in clay, glass, iron, letterpress, metals, photography, and textiles. Textiles class is with Erika Diamond, “Inside/Out: Garment as Identity.” Spring One-Week Session, March 22-28, 2020 in glass, printmaking/writing (with Stuart Kestenbaum and Susan Webster), textiles, papermaking, and wood. Textiles include: “Handweaving: Foundations and Exploration,” with Amanda Thatch; “Felt and Straw Hats: Traditional Blocked and Freeform,” with Wyne Wichern; and “Paper of Place,” with Frank Brannon. FMI: www.penland.org; 828-765-2359
PORTFIBER of Portland hosts workshops in August and September: “East Bayside Block Party-Indigo Dyeing,” “Vegetarian Sheepskins,” with Kris Weyrick Scott; “Clasped Weft Pillows,” Casey Ryder; “Buckskin Wallets and Pouches,” Zack Rouda; “Spinning 101” and “Intro to Drop Spindle,” Casey Ryder; “Bittersweet Baskets,” Zack Rouda; “Felted Mer-People,” “Felted Landscapes,” and “Eek! A Mouse,” Kristen Walsh; “Long Draw,” Melanie Duarte; “Backstrap Weaving,” Laverne Waddington; and “White Stag: Needle Felting and Armatures,” Kris Weyrick-Scott. FMI: www.portfiber.com
SARA HOTCHKISS announces three-day weaving workshops for 2019 in her studio on the coast of Maine. Classes are relaxed, basic fundamentals of rug weaving are taught along with finishing techniques, and have a focus on using colors of the student's choice and requirements. The three-day workshop also includes tapestry stitches that will become the geometric design of the rug. Lunch, tea and snacks are provided. Class dates: October 29-31 for 3-day classes. FMI: Sara Hotchkiss, 207-832-8133, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 28 Pitcher Road, Waldoboro, ME 04572. Download schedule for more information.
SUSAN MILLS upcoming classes include: Fiber College, “Medicine Bags,” September 8; Mills’ Studio: “Felting 101” on October 13 and “Felting 102” on October 27; and “Shamanic Arts,” November 3.
SCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL, 21st Annual Event, is held July 29-August 11 with a wide array of classes in: basic brewing, flash fiction, pottery wheel in porcelain, festival yoga, cooking withg sea vegetables and more. Fiber classes include: "Round Flying Geese Basket," "Shaker Market Basket," "Silk Scarf Painting," "Walking Wheel Demonstration," "Felted Gnomes," "Needle Felted Figure over Wire Armature," "Japanese Tie-Dyeing," "Fabulous Felted Nuno Scarf," "Galaxy T-Shirts," "Linen Paintings with Embroidery," and "What's Up with Bees?" FMI: www.schoodicartsforall.org
SHAKERAG WORKSHOPS 2019, Sewanee, TN offers textile classes in: “Imagery for Textiles,” Michael Brennand-Wood; “Natural Dyeing and Direct Application of Natural Pigments,” Donna Brown; “Creating a Capsule Wardrobe,” Sandra Johnson; “Sewing: Learning By Doing,” Jean Jones; and “Using Lines as a Design Focus in a Sewn Composition,” Valerie Maser-Flanagan. Classes also in pottery, photography, glazes, recording, painting, jewelry, woodblock printing and more. Also, a “Knitting Getaway” hosted by Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner [wait list only]. FMI: www.shakerag.org
SNOW FARM, Williamsburg, MA hosts textile classes in: “Images in Fiber,” “Paper Marbling: Color Play,” “Handmade Sketchbooks,” “Watercolor Monoprint: Experimental Printmaking,” “Written in Wax: The Encaustic Book,” “Sewing 101: Bags & Purses,” “Traditional Wet Felting for Beginners,” “Hat Making to Your Heart’s Content,” “Rug Hooking with the Oxford Punch Needle,” “Leather with a Twist,” “Slow Stitching,” “Indigo Shibori,” “Mosaic Quilting,” “Sculptural Weaving,” “Foraged Color: Print and Pattern Using Found Natural Dyes,” “Exploring New Shapes with Twining & Coiling.” Also classes in ceramics, mixed media, glass, metalsmithing, mosaics, welding, and woodworking. Huge catalog of art- and craft-making workshops!!! FMI: www.snowfarm.org
26 SPLIT ROCK COVE in South Thomaston offers “Artist Book Intensive 2019,” August 2-4, five workshops over three days, sponsored by Midcoast Maine Book Arts. FMI: 26 Split Rock Cove, South Thomaston, ME 04858; 207-596-7624; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Textile group TATTER LIBRARY of Brooklyn, New York and of Maine hosts their first travel-related textile retreat in Midcoast Maine, September 29-October 5. Session One: September 29-October 3 is “Forest Foraging Mushroom Dyeing,” with mycologist Alissa Allen. Allen leads the group on a forest walk identifying different species of fungi for studio dyeing. “From our findings we will explore micro-seasonal dye palettes, and extract a veritable rainbow of dye with which to transform thread, yarn and yardage.” Session Two: “Historical Embroidery” with Annie Coggan and with Jordana Munk Martin, October 3-5. Learn about the history of embroidered samplers in Maine while stitching with mushroom-dyed thread. Afternoon dye class with master dyer Tony Vinci and tour of Swans Island Company in Northport. Take session one, two, or a week-long session of “Mushroom Dyeing and Immersive Embroidery.” FMI: www.tattertextileretreat.org; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.