|
To discuss scheduling a workshop for your group, please contact me at donnakallnerwi[at]gmail.com.
Fuegian Coiling - 1-3 days. Sometimes called "top-down" or "half-hitch" coiling, Fuegian (foo-wage-ee-an) coiling is a little-known but versatile technique - the marriage of looping and coiling concepts. While inspired by the traditions of a nomadic hunting and fishing culture, these classes feature contemporary interpretations of Fuegian coiling. Most classes are organized around a project but focus on teaching techniques that can be adapted in many ways. Work with hard-core or soft-core elements that range from strips of silk velvet, other fabrics, wool felt, leather, cordage, and even plant fibers like willow, willow bark, bulrush, and Siberian iris leaves.
Sculptural Coiling-- 3-5 days. Using a knotted open-core coiling stitch allows extreme manipulation of the core element. Workshops may focus on specific topics, like scultping vessels inspired by the ways water and time shape the terrain around us, or Donna's "Cottage Lace" technique, which integrates freeform coiled motifs and looped fillings into the coiled structure. All sculptural coiling workshops emphasize split core shaping, which is useful in both traditional and contemporary vessels for making crisp transitions, producing asymmetrical shapes, creating ledges and footers, producing hidden compartments for counterweights, adding entwined elements and surface embellishments, and more.
Fusion Coiling-- 1-3 days. Depart from the traditional spiral structure of open-core coiling using a combination of stitching techniques - the basketmaker's buttonhole stitch, Fuegian coiling and lazy-eight stitch - to change direction whenever you choose. Intermittent thread wraps around the fabric core help camouflage transitions and add texture to the surface.
Return to Main Workshop Topics Page
|
|
