Showing posts with label Braiding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Braiding. Show all posts

Friday, February 22, 2013

Coiling Workshop

Recent workshop participants exploring coiled basketry:


Braided Flag Iris with Papyrus - Jen (2012)














Coiled English Ivy - Charlene (work in progress 2013)

















An entertaining video on how traditional coiled bee skeps are made:


Saturday, February 2, 2013

Braided Flag Iris


A few of the completed projects from our Fall Weaving with Invasive plants workshops.  
Participants learned about multi-strand braiding using Yellow Flag Iris - an invasive plant found throught the Vancouver Area. 

Learn more about identifing, harvesting and weaving with Yellow Flag Iris in this article previously posted by The Urban Weaver Project: Flag iris as an artist material


 
Flag Iris headband - woven by Claire (2012)



Mixed Media (flag iris, papyrus, ceramics) - braided and coiled by Jan (2012)

 





Saturday, October 27, 2012

Headband Workshop for Youth


Our 3rd week of West Coast Design and Artist mentorship workshops, this week (Wednesday October 24th) we visited the urban weaving studio of Haida Weaver Todd DeVries, and made Headbands !