10-11:30 Saturday 29 September @ Roundhouse Community Centre A “speed dating” session for Vancouver makers to meet gardeners with plantings and green waste that could be up-purposed for creative use. Are you a maker that could help in a garden and/or up-cycle another’s greenwaste? Do you have a garden that produces materials you think might…
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Linen Growers Club 2018 (FULL)
9 sessions First Tuesday of the Month*, from March through September, 6-8pm Plus additional retting & processing dates First Class March 6 @ Bee Space, 580 Powell St, Vancouver, BC V6A 0A5 All other sessions @ Trillium North Park, corner of Malkin & Thornton, Vancouver Max 15 $220 (2nd Tuesday in April, 10th) This program…
Linen Growers’ Club: March
What brought you here? Are you a gardener or a spinner already, or are you new to it? Where are you going to grow your flax? Turns out that we’re a mix of growers and makers, and will be growing our flax at sites all over Coast Salish Territory and beyond; we’ll have a tremendous diversity…
A Little History on Flax to Linen
Almost thirty years ago in 1989, Mavis Atton’s book Flax Culture: from flower to fabric was published by Ginger Press, a chronicle of Atton’s experiments growing and producing hand spun flax in Georgian Bay, Ontario. A few years later, Linda Heinrich of Vancouver Island wrote The Magic of Linen, a result of the extensive research she…
Soil to Sky – one very last event…
It’s almost hard to imagine that the time is upon us, but here it comes: the very last Soil to Sky event, the Final Celebration on Saturday November 5. We’ve all learned so much from this project. It didn’t go off the way we expected, but we took the twists and turns with good grace,…
From Soil to Sky- Research Project
From May 9- June 5 2016 From Soil to Sky is an opportunity for urban artists, gardeners, paper-makers, spinners, woodworkers, kite- fliers and care-givers to spend 12 sessions over the springtime sharing skills and resources while collaborating to make the best-flying, most inspiring kites we can -completely from materials that grow right in our neighbourhoods….
The week of new videos continues…
The eartHand folks were interviewed in the summertime by Jennifer Muranetz for a story on the environmental impact of textiles that Collective Evolution were writing. Here is the article and short film. Thanks to Jennifer, Collective Evolution, and all the eartHand folks who helped in the project! And the shirt that took three years of…
Aberthau Flax Project Final Report
Rebecca Graham did such a fabulous job of putting together our final report for the project that I wanted to share it with those who follow what we do. Enjoy! Aberthau: Flax+Fibre+Food – Year 2 Final Report by Rebecca Graham on behalf of West Point Grey Community Centre and EartHand Gleaners Society Project blog: http://aberthauflaxfibrefood.blogspot.ca…
Trillium North update
Things heat up at the new park as we approach the point of public access at the new site. Several local folks came and helped weave a new fence for our small demonstration flax plot that is roadside: Our Park Board partners have set us up with keys to the main building as well as…
Aberthau Hedge laying Event
This Saturday finds the start up of work on site back at our flax field