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“Building Woven Landscapes” with Maris Van Vlack With Building Woven Landscapes, interdisciplinary textile artist Maris Van Vlack will provide insight into her artistic practice of creating woven and knitted landscape tapestries using floor looms and jacquard looms. Van Vlack is an interdisciplinary artist who uses weaving to build images of architectural spaces that explore themes…
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“Sewing Your Handmade Fabrics, Part 1” with Liz Spear Liz Spear presents the 30+ year evolution of a weaving/sewing business with roots in a Midwestern upbringing, years making pottery full-time, and a final move to Western North Carolina. Her handwoven fabrics are cut-n-sewn into classic shirts, jackets and coats, often supplemented with her Nuno-felt and…
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“Couture Passementerie Through the Eyes of a Fiber Artist” with Robyn Spady From Chanel and Balenciaga to the House of Worth and Ralph Lauren, passementerie has been a way to elevate a garment from something ordinary to something extraordinary. What is passementerie? It’s a French term without an English equivalent. Passementerie encompasses a multitude of techniques…
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In this zoom workshop we will weave many variations of Deflected Double Weave (DDW) on 8-shaft jack-style floor or table looms. You will first learn how to weave DDW using a skeleton tie-up or comparable lift plan. Next, we will add traditional double layers to the DDW. Then we will weave a sampler of different…
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Dates: February 14, 21, 28, 2026 noon to 4 p.m. Fee: $180 per student – workshop fee includes workshop monograph Registration: opens November 1 and closes December 1, 2025 Preparation and Supply List:
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Monthly Lecture Series via Zoom Second Wednesday of the Month 7:00 PM EST This exciting new series is being offered to all members of MLH as a FREE benefit of membership. This series does require that you must be a member of MLH. This series will offer you 11 FREE lectures/speakers throughout the year on the second Wednesday…
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“Weaving in the UP: the Legacy of Immigrant Finns Lives On” with Phyllis Fredendall With images and stories from the Copper Country and Finland, Phyllis will share a weaving journey including the development of the fiber and fashion design program at Suomi College through to the survival of its dynamic fiber studio as the anchor of…
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“Pat Rat Color Gamp” with Kendra Barnowski You’re invited to follow along on a journey of natural dyes at your fingertips, culminating in a beautiful, double-weave color gamp! Kendra Barnowski will discuss the process of gathering dye materials over the course of a year to create a colorful, at-a-glance reference for future studio work. We…
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“Maximalist Mending: Sustainable Fashion with a Punk Philosophy” with Mariel Collins In this lecture we will explore ideas within the punk movement, and how they relate to fiber arts practices in obvious and surprising ways. We will also focus in on mending specifically, as a vehicle for expressing these ideas, and an approachable method for…
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“Using Color to Create Pattern with Turned Taqueté” with Suzi Ballenger Turned Taqueté is a perfect opportunity to step into the fun of color as the basis for exploring pattern and geometry in weaving. You will be amazed at how easy it is to use color to create designs with this simple and diverse structure.…