Our latest podcast just went up. Part 1 - PresentationGasali AdeyemoIn this lecture master craftsman Gasali Adeyemo opens the evening with a description of his early life in Nigeria and tells how fibre art came into his life. As a participant of the Nike Centre for Arts and...
2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Natalie GrambowCanvas is for artists, and an unstretched canvas is an open invitation for the surface designer to begin exploration. Using combinations of mixed-media, fabric paints, and succulent colour palettes, students will engage the canvas surface through altered art techniques, image transfer, collage, and...
Friday, May 29, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Carol SoderlundColour Mixing for Dyers is the most thorough and advanced workshop available on fibre-reactive dyes – a full five-days. Students work toward a high skill level that allows them to create the perfect hue each and every time.Explore the unlimited number of hues...
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Rene EvansFelt is one of the oldest known forms of manipulated fibre. Felting appears coincidental with animal husbandry and produces a range of items from clothing and toys to sculpture, tents, and even industrial tools. Often an art and tradition of nomadic peoples, felting...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Venessa BentleyThis was one of our most popular workshops last year. Knitting then felting fabric in the washing machine continues to provide exciting opportunities for design and embellishment. During this three-day workshop participants will complete two very different felted bag structures – one squared-off...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Nicole ChazaudIn four days students will learn how to design and make coordinated felt fabrics for interiors.Day one begins with colour theory. Based on over twenty-five years as a commercial colourist working in the textile industry and as a fibre artist, Nicole shows students...
Monday, May 25, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Natalie GrambowHere students will obtain a comprehensive understanding of resists, what advantage each might have, what effects can be obtained, and the proper techniques for manipulating fabric, colour, and resist. This course is an ideal introduction to resist as a vital element of surface...
Sunday, May 24, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Marcelina Charri, Maria Lima, Fernando AlvarezMarcelina Charri and Maria Lima join us from the Andean highlands to explain the secrets of working with rare fibres. The workshop will cover carding, spinning, plying, and the creation of blends. Each blend has its own character. Some...
Saturday, May 23, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Jawaja Leatherworkers[Editors note: this workshop was canceled due to the visa denials.]Leatherworking is one of the oldest trades in the world. In India groups have preserved and maintained techniques very much based on manual skills. Working only with a variety of small tools, the...
Friday, May 22, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Ashoke ChatterjeeThe evolution of markets can affect the lives and well-being of millions. The global meltdown has brought this fact into sharp relief. Its implications are particularly severe for millions of artisans worldwide for whom the reality of highly competitive markets was challenging enough...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Henri LambertHistorically the French referred to woad not as a dye but as an ennoblement – for they believed that its subtle shade gave the cloth great dignity.In this workshop students will have the opportunity to work with European woad specialist Henri Lambert. The...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Bappaditya Biswas, Stephen Huyler,Linda Cortwright, Charllotte Kwon, and Sheila PaineEach member of our panel has carved a road in the wilderness. It is not easy to walk off the map, but they have all done it, struck out alone to follow a path as...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Bonnie AdieAre you a textile enthusiast wanting to add stitch for embellishment? If so, this is the workshop you won’t want to miss. The stitches you’ll learn are those that are known across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. They have passed between families and...
Monday, May 18, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Morimoto KikuoUnder the Khmer Rouge almost all of Cambodia’s traditional culture was wiped out. A great poverty of information resulted – everything from basic farming to textile dyeing and weaving techniques was lost. Yet, at one time Cambodian textiles were the envy of Southeast...
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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At Maiwa EastTreasures carried across the deserts of INDIAeach bedevery table a verse carvedin woodwith astounding detail and ornamentorclean and simpleas a pencil lineCome visitopen our doors and see what has arrived.How to find us.Open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 5pmSunday 11am - 5pm ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Michel GarciaMichel Garcia joins us from the Botanical Garden of Dye Plants in Lauris, France, to share some special techniques for dyeing and printing with extracts.Some of the difficulties of using powdered dyestuff (such as a high concentration of madder root on wool) can...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Nilda Callañaupa AlvarezMen’s knitted caps are in common use in many indigenous communities in the highlands of southern Peru and Bolivia. The shape of the caps varies from one area or community to another, but usually they are pointed at the top, and often...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez“The process of weaving is a reflection of the weaver’s daily life. Each of her weavings contains her own history, from the saddest to the happiest moments.”– Nilda Callañaupa AlvarezTraditional Andean weaving is done on a backstrap loom, known in Quechua as...
Monday, May 11, 2009
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Project Dhamadka got another boost on Saturday at the Bowen Island Ajrakh Auction. Organized by Mariana Holbrook, Judi Gedye and Maiwa Handprints, the auction raised over $7000. Thanks to all the volunteers who helped display textiles, provide food, track bids and make this event such a success.It was...
Monday, May 11, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Betsy Sterling BenjaminAuthor and master rozome artist Betsy Sterling Benjamin arrives from New Hampshire to teach this course in Japanese Batik. Rozome has caught the interest of fibre artists from around the world. This course gives an overview of traditional techniques and allows you...
Sunday, May 10, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Michele WipplingerFor 2009 this very popular workshop has expanded to a full five days.The Colour Institute is devoted to an intense exploration of colour perception, aesthetics, dynamics, theory, and use. Working from diverse historic and cultural sources, this class moves through classical concepts of...
Friday, May 08, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Vivien PrideauxThis workshop begins with the Japanese techniques of shibori (the inventive art of Japanese shaped resist dyeing); combines these techniques with natural fermentation indigo; and then over-dyes the finished work with fibre-reactive dyes. The resulting textures and colours create exquisite and fanciful fabrics...
Thursday, May 07, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Vivien PrideauxFor many indigo dyers, working with a natural fermentation vat is the ultimate achievement of their craft. The fermentation vat has a personality, a rhythm, and, so it seems, a will of its own. When mastered and understood, the natural vat will provide...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Jean CacicedoWe all possess a wealth of personal inner resources that can be given shape and form through the creative process of our art-making. This workshop will provide students with the tools necessary to uncover an awareness of their own personal mythology.Each student will...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Jean CacicedoThis special workshop, held every year, introduces an unusual combination of approaches to constructing or embellishing cloth. This year Invented Fabric is taught by Jean Cacicedo who has adapted her workshop “The Textured Cloth.” Jean arrives from Berkeley, California, to give this three-day...
Monday, May 04, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Dorothy CaldwellThis workshop will examine “the stitch” using the traditions of Indian kantha embroidery. Kantha embroidered quilts use the running stitch to form patterns and narrative imagery reflecting the lives and experiences of the makers. Slides, video, and actual examples of Sujuni stitched quilts...
Sunday, May 03, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Natalie GrambowThis two-day workshop will focus on a combination of transfer processes that allow students to incorporate photo imagery into their work.Students will learn methods for the transfer of both black-and-white and colour imagery onto cloth. These include transparent marker, iron-on, solvent, and gel-medium...
Saturday, May 02, 2009
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2009 Maiwa Textile SymposiumWorkshopInstructor Jane StaffordWe were very pleased to get this workshop proposal. The synergy of ideas expressed here inspires us – it’s the reason we hold the symposium. Instructor Jane Stafford explains the motivation for this workshop ...I have always been so inspired by the exquisite...
Friday, May 01, 2009
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The Maiwa Foundation is taking its auctionto Bowen Island to raise money forProject DhamadkaSaturday May 9th at 3:30 pm at Cates Hill Chapel.Join us as we present an afternoon of ravishing textiles. There will be a multi-media presentation and talk by Charllotte Kwon on the Khatri community of traditional...
Friday, May 01, 2009
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