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• All Member Studio Night

  • Start
    04 Oct 2019
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  • End
    06 Mar 2020
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
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  The Refinery (the building in which Local Cloth is located) is open on the first Friday of each month to celebrate the exhibition in the gallery, and to allow people to stroll through the building.  Local Cloth will be open, too.  From 5:00 – 8:00, all members are invited to come and meet up.  Some of you may wish to tackle UFOs.  Others may have items for show and tell.  And everyone can snack and chat.
  

  We’d love to fill the studio with all our fiber friends.  Come for some of the time, or all of the time.  Bring a snack to share, or just bring yourself, and of course, whatever you’d like to work on.

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• Low Tech Screen Printing

  • Start
    14 Nov 2019
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  • End
    15 Nov 2019
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
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  Unlock the mysteries of screen printing with simple, immediate, low-tech processes to print anything from t-shirts to fine scarves, from paper cards to fabric yardage. We will design a range of stencils to print through screens including: painting with screen filler and drawing fluid, rubbing textures with wax, cutting shelf paper, and more. Printing media will focus primarily on water-soluble textile inks, but we will also review processes to thicken dyes and color removers. Let me show you lots of techniques and tricks to take back home and keep on printing on your own!

  
  Level: Beginner
  

  Materials fee: $30
  

  Registration: Members $200, Non-members $240

  Instructor:  Bio Jen Swearington

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• Dye Lab: Painting Protein Fiber with Acid Dye

  • When
    23 Nov 2019
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave #11, Asheville, NC
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    4

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  Join us for a fun afternoon, working on your own projects. This Lab is for Advanced Beginners and beyond. You need to bring your wool, mohair, alpaca or silk pre-soaked in vinegar, rubber gloves, plastic bins and dye to share. We use a variety of techniques and equipment - low water immersion, steaming, crockpot dyeing, etc. with consultation from an experienced leader - Judi Jetson and/or Beth Sellars - to get the result you want. If you like, bring magazine pages or photos with images you find appealing, and we'll help you mix dye colors to match.
  

  Level: Advanced Beginners to Expert

  
  

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• Natural Dye and Medicinal Plant Group

  • When
    24 Nov 2019
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    9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, #11
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  November Natural Dye Study Group 
  

  This will be our last meet up for 2019. We will finish up our tour of printing with Natural Dyes with an exploration of space-dyeing yarn. This technique utilizes direct application of concentrated dyes to mordanted yarn, which is then steamed to set the color. Please bring any scoured, mordanted yarn to play with. You may want to get one 100 gram skein and split it up so you can do a few experiments. I will bring weld (yellow) and cutch (brown) extracts, if you have some others in your stash please bring them so we can have a good variety.

  
  

  Looking forward to seeing you.

  Joyce

  
  

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• Recycled sweater mittens

  • When
    30 Nov 2019
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
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  Mittens will be created using upcycled wool sweaters

  Level: Intermediate

  Materials fee: $ for Sewing machine if needed

  Instructor: Elizabeth Searle

  Registration: Members $50, Non-members $60

  
  

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• Weaving From The Stash

  • When
    01 Dec 2019
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
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    5

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  Staring at your yarn stash deciding what weaving project shall be next, your eyes land on that yarn you bought at a fiber fair in 2012. You loved it then, and you love it now, but it remains on the shelf because you are just not sure how to use it. Or you still have a small quantity of a precious and expensive yarn, but don’t know how to combine it with other yarns so that it still plays the starring role in the design. Or maybe your yarn stash has simply reached critical mass, and you need to use it up so you can order more. This one-day off-loom workshop will give you suggestions for using the yarn you have to weave the cloth you want. Bring a few of your “challenge” yarns with you, and leave with one or more project ideas.

  We will:

  -Evaluate the qualities and properties of the yarns you’ve brought.
  -Share ideas about the best project for them with other participants.
  -Learn ways to combine your stash yarns with other yarns.
  -Get hands-on practice with color-mixing exercises, fiber identification & research and drafting with graph paper or computer software.

  Supplies to bring: A few yarns from your stash you are not sure how to use, pencil, pen, a few colored pencils or markers, graph paper, small calculator, scissors, scotch tape, color wheel

  Level:  Intermediate

  Materials Fee: $10 for Handout with design worksheet, design tools

  Registration: Members $100, Non-members $120

  Instructor: Karen Donde

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• Intro to Eco-Printing

  • When
    02 Dec 2019
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    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
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  An introductory course that will provide students with the tools necessary to begin exploring the magical world of eco printing. Students will generate silk samples using different mordanting and modifying techniques for insuring successful results. Silk fabric and a variety of leaves will be provided for the experiments. After a series of “testing” students will select their favorite “method” and print a 14” x 72” silk scarf. Students will leave with a 14” x 72” silk scarf, multiple samples and handouts containing thorough instructions for working at home.

  Level: Beginning

  Materials Fee: $25  includes all fabrics and supplies  

  Registration: Members $100, Non-members $120

  Instructor: Patricia Spangler bio 

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• Eco Printing - The Next Generation

  • When
    03 Dec 2019
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    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
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    1

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  Eco Printing--The Next Generation is a follow-up to the introductory workshops. In this class, students will learn techniques for creating colored backgrounds to enhance the effects of eco printing on silk. Focusing on background surface design and color, we will work with natural dyes including cochineal, logwood and osage orange--as well as tannins such as pomegranate and gall nut.
  

  Level: Intermediate

  Prerequisites: Eco printing experience highly recommended.
  

  Materials Fee: $30 includes all supplies and fabrics necessary for success. Students will leave with a 14" x 72" silk scarf, multiple color samples and handouts containing thorough instructions.

  Registration: Members $100, Non-members $120

  Instructor: Patricia Spangler bio 

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• Coptic Stitch Bookbinding

  • When
    06 Dec 2019
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    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
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    4
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    4 registrants

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  Coptic Stitch Bookbinding

  In this workshop, we will cover the basics of the coptic stitch binding technique to create a unique hardcover journal that lays flat when open. We will design and glue up book boards that will become the covers for our book then prepare and sew the signature pages into the covers, completing the book.
  

  
  Each participant will leave with a finished book and the skills to continue the craft on your own. All materials are included in the class fee, but you are welcome to bring a favorite paper or two for your covers. 

  Level: Beginning
  

  Materials Fee: $15

  Registration: Members $100, Non-members $120

  Instructor: Alyssa Sacora bio 

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• Maker's Holiday Market

  • When
    06 Dec 2019
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    4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Avenue #11, Asheville, NC

  Makers Holiday Market
  

  December 6th 4 to 8 pm

  

  
  

  
  

  Please join us for our Maker’s Holiday Market. We will have an array of 100% handmade fiber treasures. Among the offerings will be knitted, dyed and nuno felted accessories and soaps, refashioned clothing, naturally dyed yarn, eco printed bags and scarves, one of a kind ornaments, birch work and textile printing. Get some holiday shopping done and find a little treasure for yourself.
  

  We will have festive refreshments for you while you browse. The vendors fees will go towards the Local Cloth Scholarship fund. This evening coincides with the Asheville Area Arts Council first Friday and most of the Refinery studios are participating so do come along and enjoy the opening in the gallery and all the open studios.

  We have a few vendor tables available. Please contact me atjoycetromba@gmail.com if you would like to participate.

  

  

  
  

  
  

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• Learn Wicker Basketry, Create an Interwoven Base Basket

  • When
    13 Dec 2019
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
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    1 registrant

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  Participants will learn many fine points of wicker basketry. Exploring basket set ups, textural additions, and finishing techniques everyone goes home with an ample handmade heirloom basket. Using hand dyed reeds and textural accents this instructor combines discussions on dyeing methods, basketry history,and tips in a non competitive and playful day of basket weaving.
  

  Level: All
  

  Materials Fee:  $15 for all hand dyed reeds, buckets, tools and hand outs or this class

  Registration: Members $100, Non-members $120

  Instructor: bio  Carla Filippelli

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• Woven Shibori with Silk and Lanaset

  • Start
    14 Dec 2019
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  • End
    16 Dec 2019
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  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC
  • Spaces left
    4

  Combine woven shibori, a loom controlled patterning system using temporary gathering threads, with silk noil and Lanaset dyes to create samples or a scarf. Bring your 4-8 harness loom dressed with a dummy warp 180 ends sett at 12epi (instructions and threading drafts will be provided) ready to tie on silk.  In addition to the aforementioned loom, participants will need to bring 2 shuttles, bobbins, warp separator (paper or sticks), scissors, seam ripper and other tools for weaving. A pickup stick longer than 15" is optional. Manual bobbin winders will be available. Learn the process. Handouts will support taking your new skills to your home studio.
  

  Skill Level: Intermediate
  

  Materials fee: $35 for silk noil warps (one per participant), silk weft, embroidery floss, dyes (including vinegar and sodium alginate), handouts, woven shibori samples, miscellaneous tools (plastic containers, brushes, cross holders, etc.)

  Registration: Members $300, Non-members $360

  Instructor: Neal Howard
  

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• Dye Lab: Painting Protein Fiber with Acid Dye

  • When
    28 Dec 2019
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave #11, Asheville, NC
  • Spaces left
    6

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  Join us for a fun afternoon, working on your own projects. This Lab is for Advanced Beginners and beyond. You need to bring your wool, mohair, alpaca or silk pre-soaked in vinegar, rubber gloves, plastic bins and dye to share. We use a variety of techniques and equipment - low water immersion, steaming, crockpot dyeing, etc. with consultation from an experienced leader - Judi Jetson and/or Beth Sellars - to get the result you want. If you like, bring magazine pages or photos with images you find appealing, and we'll help you mix dye colors to match.
  

  Level: Advanced Beginners to Expert

  
  

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• Private Rental Janna Mattson

  • Start
    04 Apr 2020
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  • End
    05 Apr 2020
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, #11, Asheville NC
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• Private Rental Janna Mattson

  • Start
    11 Apr 2020
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  • End
    12 Apr 2020
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    207 Coxe Ave, #11, Asheville NC
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