The 2021 Celebrating Handwork hybrid event is a great opportunity to showcase and learn about handwork and local fiber farms, with unique educational experiences for the whole family. Featured events and workshops will be offered both online and outdoors at the Fiber Craft Studio. An online festival sale will feature hand-made items from the Fiber Craft Studio.
Join Anne-Marie Kavulla to explore the wonder of natural dyes through a process known as bundle dyeing. Each participant will have the opportunity to create a unique botanical print on an organic cotton bandana.
Registration extended! Do not miss this special opportunity to take part in eight sessions of this unique course. Open to beginners and experienced fiber artisans alike.
Join Anne-Marie Kavulla for an exploration of natural dye color from the comfort of your kitchen!
Join Chris Marlow at the Fiber Craft Studio to learn how to transplant your dye plant. This free event is open to anyone who is interested in starting your own dye garden.
Bring a good-quality shirt that you don’t wear any more for materials. Sewing machines, tools, and equipment will be prepared on the Fiber Craft Studio patio!
Learn a technique to weave together a stone and a stick as a reminder of all that our beautiful Earth gives us. This is a traditional craft that embodies the spirit of giving. You will complete one or more woven stones using waxed linen cord and be introduced to other materials and patterns to explore on your own. Led by April Saladino, lover of beach stones, river rocks, bits of nature and the possibilities they present when combined with fiber and found objects.
The Applied Arts Program, a professional development opportunity for Waldorf handwork teachers and aspiring teachers, explores the art, philosophy, practice and pedagogy of teaching handwork.
This two-day course offered by the Fiber Craft Studio is designed to prepare handwork teachers to teach woodwork in grades 4-8. The course will introduce students to the sound, safe, and effective use of traditional tools and techniques for the teaching of woodwork projects.
Please join us for an exhibition of plant-dyed, hand-sewn garments created by the students in our course, Art of Clothing.
Bring your fiber, textile, or clothing item to the Fiber Craft Studio to dye with indigo or black walnut.
In this course, which meets on ten Saturdays from September to May, we design and sew garments using four natural fibers (cotton, linen, wool and silk) to create four items for a complete outfit. Drafting simple patterns and sewing by hand gives us an opportunity for meditative work and a chance to center ourselves. Over the course of the year we experience different sewing techniques, plant dyeing, and embroidery as we create our own unique fabric for our garments.
Participate in the end-of-season harvest of flowers, leaves, and roots from our biodynamic dye garden, and experience dyeing natural materials. Feel the healing energy from the plant world as you receive the beautiful colors from nature.
Please join us for a free community workshop. Fiber Craft Studio Co-director Miho Suzuki will show how to make a pieced drawstring from fabric scraps. Fabric that was plant-dyed here at the Studio will be provided.
Join us for a creative afternoon in our beautiful studio space, looping plant-dyed linen thread. Together we will create a small amulet to wear or to hold with an option to cover a stone as well. No experience necessary.
260 Hungry Hollow Road,
Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977
Phone: 845.352.5020
Fax: 845.352.5071
Email: info@threefold.org
