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Plant Dyes for Cotton & Silk Workshop
Patricia Cheesman
July 3 & 4, Friday & Saturday
9:00 am – 3:00 pm at TEMARI, 1754 Lusitana St.
Limited enrollment: 10
Class Fee: $125
Special Fee: $95, TEMARI & Hawaii Handweavers Hui members
Patricia will share her experiments and successes in dyeing silk and cotton with dyes prepared from plant material. These methods apply to plants available here. Our indigenous and introduced plants were used by early Hawaiians to produce vivid hues on kapa. Similar plants used in natural dyeing are found in both the Southeast Asian and Pacific archipelagoes.
Students are expected to gather the plant material. Suggestions are: olena (turmeric), pomegranate fruit skins, annatto seeds, palaa ferns, inner bark of kukui. We are looking for locally-grown indigo. Around the 1930s, Central Oahu was a site for an experimental indigo plantation. Seeds of the Suffriticosa variety still sprout occasionally in the ravines surrounding modern housing developments.
The amount and variety of color yield depends upon workshop participants. Patricia may be able to bring in powdered dyes made in Thailand. She will also need approximately 3# of ash from burnt plants: banana leaves or other fruit trees. You will learn how to prepare the raw plant material, work with pre-mordanted fabrics, and overdye to create richer hues.
Bring: Pre-mordanted silk and cotton; skeins or fabric. Detailed supply list will be sent.
Supply Fee: TBD
Note: The quantity of fabrics and skeins that can be dyed will depend upon what students bring to the class.
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Keiki Art
Fae Yamaguchi
6/29 – 7/24 (No class-7/3) Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Total: 11 classes, 22 hours
Class Fee: $230
Limited enrollment:
10 keiki, grades 1 - 5
Fae Yamaguchi has a M.F.A. in Sculpture. She has taught in the Artists in the Schools Program; including Aiea Complex Schools, Liliuokalani, Lincoln, Lanakila, Palolo, Ala Wai, Mililani Mauka. She gained more teaching experience teaching at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Alliance for Arts Education, the Contemporary Museum, La Pietra, and Kamehameha Schools. Her personal artwork in the form of experimental video has screened nationally and internationally.
She also runs an After-School Program, and, she’s the mother of an elementary school daughter.
In her own words: “The class will give children a platform to be creative and to have the confidence to take risks. When they create they should try new things and not to be afraid to make mistakes. I believe the process of making art is as important as the end product. Children will learn to think like an artist.”
There is a schedule of activities that includes: printing on paper and fabric, building movable or flying pieces, basic weaving, painting, drawing, sculpting and shooting individual short videos with figures made by the students.
Bring: Wear an apron or old clothes.
Supply Fee: $10
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Beginning Quilting
Laraine Hasegawa
7/12, 7/19, 7/26 Sundays
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Class Fee: $90
Maximum: 8 students
Location: Chic Mode
98-023 Hekaha St., Aiea
Learn basic quilting techniques.
You know how to thread a sewing machine, wind a bobbin, and maybe even put in a zipper. Next step: piecing fabrics into a quilt and machine quilting the top.
You will learn how to:
•Accurately cut fabrics with a rotary cutter and layer the top, batting and backing to avoid puckering.
•Decorate with simple machine quilting.
•Bind the edges with a contrasting fabric.
Chic Mode Sewing School provides the air-conditioned workspace and sewing machines. When you pin the layers together, you will appreciate their big tables at just the right height.
Laraine travels to Europe and the mainland taking workshops and teaching. She knows that gathering supplies is difficult. She’s completed a difficult part of quilting: selecting and coordinating fabrics for a quilt approximately 4’ X 5’.
Supply List, Class Preparation Instructions and Fabric Kit will be given to students prior to first class.
Fabric Kit: includes all fabric needed to complete the project, batting, threads and a pattern packet valued at $15.00. The total approximate cost of the kit is $110.
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Zori
Merle Grybowski, Lead Teacher
8/15, Saturday
9:00 am - Noon
Class Fee: $30
Slippers. Foot wear from ti leaves, rice straw, rags, leather and now from old T-shirts and towels.
Nuno Zori, fabric slippers, evolved from the Japanese rice straw sandals, waraji. The weaving of always-available rice straw was recycling ultimate. When the waraji wore out, it was tossed into the fields. The weaving of really usable slippers is so popular in Japan that a magazine, Iki Iki, with fan clubs in every major city publishes members’ works and creates new projects for weaving with fabric strips.
Merle is retired from the Consortium for Teaching Asia & Pacific in the Classroom and is now a consultant with the Pacific Asian Affairs Council at the East West Center. She is the experienced tour leader for TEMARI’s Mingei Tour II. Her assistants include TEMARI Board members and faculty who participated in recent cultural exchanges with visiting Iki Iki members and visiting teachers, Masa and Mari Tanaka, who have taught many of their students in Japan how to make the Zori.
Bring: List will be sent with instructions on how to prepare the fabric strips.
Supply Fee: Approximately $5 for the base cording.
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Photo Transfer and other Collectable Creations from the Inkjet Printer
Jeannie Yoshida
8/20 & 27 Thursdays
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Class Fee: $50
Imagine the possibilities of photo transferring precious photos onto fabric and producing fabric prints. Techno novices are all welcome as extensive computer knowledge is not necessary.
Jeannie will have a computer and ink jet printer set up for you to print your photos onto pre-treated cotton, linen or silks. Experiment with textured fabrics treated with transfer solution to customize the prints. The completed projects can be later used as pillow tops, photo quilt pieces, patches, labels, scarves or whatever else we can "play" with.
Jeannie has worked with fabric for many years. She has been formally employed by Fabrics West, Fashion Fabrics, Kuni Dry Goods and taught sewing at Bernina Sewing Center. Presently working full time she makes time to "play" with fabrics and produces her own line of clothing and handbags "destructed and reconstructed" from kimonos and western fabrics.
Bring: memory card from your digital camera or a few photos
Supply Fee: TBD
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Okame Messenger Doll
Wendy Nohara
8/29, Saturday
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Class Fee: $30
Okame is the chubby-cheeked smiling face drawn on to masks, paper, wood, clay or fabric. She symbolizes
the gregarious, generous woman who welcomes all. An Okame mask brings good luck. AKA Otafuku or Great Felicity, she fulfills inner desires and brings happiness. She will energize your surroundings, brighten the house and make you feel at home. How can you not love that face!
Wendy Nohara has adapted this whimsical symbol
of hospitality. This Okame Doll combines the traditional kokeshi doll’s vertical column with a sweet face of kind laughter and irresistible charm. The red obi is gently tugged away to reveal a paper scroll for your message. You could even add a pocket layer to enclose a monetary gift with Okame-san. This is just the latest Nohara creation. Her finely crafted dolls and accessories are known throughout the East West Center community. Secret revealed!
Bring: Hand sewing tools- - scissors, pins, needle and dark thread. You will be sent details on the doll’s foundation.
Nominal Supply Fee: TBD, Includes, embroidery threads, bead for the kanzashi hair ornament, obi fabric, papers.
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Advanced Shibori
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Figure 8 Bracelet
Card Making Classes
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Noriko's Weaving Class
Chirimen Box
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Woven Pouch
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Star Bulletin article: Kimono awakening
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