Tag: Design
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The Weaving Wagon will be EartHand’s pop-up studio and pick up truck, a hybrid of cutting-edge bicycle-based transport and traditional woven willow carts. Geoff Hibbard, with an engineering education and co-founder of Shift Delivery, is designing the chassis; Alastair Heseltine will be overseeing our weaving of the body; and Martin Borden will be documenting the…
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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.…
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Community Research Labs Just Announced: In partnership with Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES) this project brings together members from a stewardship group already working at Stanley Park and folks with some weaving experience to up-cycle invasive plants. In part 1, weavers work with Sharon Kallis to harvest and begin processing and experimenting with various techniques…
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eartHand’s Rebecca and Sharon made boots and shoes with community for the incredible Train of Thought journey that began in Vancouver back in May- and were lucky enough to meet Annie Smith, who would be traveling on that train… Annie was an incredible steward of the boots for the trip- finding plants and people at…
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Please join us at Trillium North on Sunday from 4.30-6.30 for our final celebration of the Urban Cloth Project, as well as our spring weaving projects that are complete! The site is looking good….
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Terroir events will still get posted here, but keep an eye on this new site for the research details of the cloth processing discoveries. We have a new bed at Trillium North where we will grow flax for our Urban Cloth as well as working at MOP and at the Hastings Urban Farm.
EartHand Gleaners Society 