2-Day Flax Fiber and weaving workshop on your handmade ceramic frame

Event information

About the Workshop

Participants will have the opportunity to create a beautiful handwoven piece using their own handmade ceramic frame.

Day 1 - Saturday 25 July 10.30-12.30pm:
Students will make their ceramic weaving frames using stoneware clay and decorate them with Emi’s forged natural clay slips.

Day 2 Saturday 8 August 10.15-4.15pm:
Students will receive their fired ceramic frames, prepared by Emi. They will learn how to set up the loom and create their own handwoven piece using natural and sustainable yarns, including Emi’s home-grown flax fibres, forged natural fibres and yarns, Japanese kibiso yarn, silk mawata fleece, alpaca wool, and more.

Emi has worked on several projects growing flax plants to produce fabric in different communities. She will also demonstrate the process of turning flax plants into fibre and hand-spinning it into linen yarn.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn about flax fibre.

Participants are welcome to bring their own yarns.

Students will take their completed weaving home on the frame.

About the Tutor

Emi is a Japanese textile artist and designer based in Northamptonshire specialised in hand weaving with natural materials and natural dyeing. She launched her slow fashion garment collection in 2021. She is also trained as a Japanese Sukumo Indigo Dyer in Japan and she is planning to set up a Japanese Sukumo Indigo Studio in her 17th-century limestone house in Northamptonshire.

She is also influenced by the study of traditional textiles, techniques and materials inspired by Confucius words, who said: "We can learn new things from the past". She loves to explore different countries and find traditional materials, techniques and ideas. She has developed her own style to express her art which is based in a Japanese identity with European influences.

Website: https://www.emifujisawa.co.uk/

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