Tag: Workshops
EartHand Gleaners Society workshops ask — and answer –“How can we be Makers without first being consumers?”
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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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A free series of monthly workshops introducing local fibres and how to harvest and prepare them, and basic weaving and spinning skills
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A co-op dye garden for natural dyers in Vancouver, BC
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Accepting and using animal hides, bone and other parts is a keystone of ancestral life ways from all over the world. EartHand Gleaners Society is mainly ‘vegetarian’ in our materials, but as we move deeper into our relationship with the land, ancestral skills, and with First Nations, we recognize the importance of knowing more about working…
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Work for the sculpture being made in Richmond begins this week with our harvest of blackberry skin for rope-making fibre. Blackberry Fibre Harvest Wed. June 29, 5.30-8.30 pm at Bridgeport Industrial Park Meet at the west end of the pasture by the Apiary. Bring leather work gloves or clippers if you have them, tools and…
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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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Rebecca and Sharon get asked all the time if they are teaching a specific class, or when something will be offered again… As everything we have done to date has involved always grant writing to offer classes for free as a part of larger projects, sometimes the project we are doing doesn’t fit the skills…
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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.
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This Saturday finds the start up of work on site back at our flax field
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