Course Description:
Create an open weave vessel using basketweaving and twining techniques.
An introduction to basketry tools, materials, and shaping processes with Brigid Elrod of ladypope. Learn 3 distinct woven basket base approaches and play with several weaving techniques. We will use beginner-friendly fiber rush in natural color along with naturally dyed accent colors. You will create a sculptural vase or bowl between 4” and 8” diameter. Binding and finishing methods will be demonstrated to complete your vessel at home. Feel free to BYOB!
All materials included.
Age Group: Adults (18 and over)
Level: No prior experience necessary.
Workshop Info:
Date: Sunday, August 27, 2023
Time: 3-6pm
Location:
These Hands Maker's Collective
13347 W. Washington Blvd., Unit A
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Brigid Elrod is a fiber artist focused on contemporary basketry, patinas, and natural dyes for home goods. Prioritizing the slow and circuitous over the streamlined. The lumpy over the rigid. Milwaukee-born and DTLA-based, Brigid trained in Textiles at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). For a decade she’s worked across fine art, interior design, and material development for architectural products. ladypope is the basketweaving project eponymous with her high school sports team, the Pius XI Lady Popes, honoring that mashup of divinity and impossibility. A title operating somewhere between the sweet and the rotten.
@ladypopeladypope
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