WEAVING SMALL
AN ALTAR OFFERING
with Flore Costumé
October 3, 1 - 3:30pm | La Tierra, Sebastopol
October 10, 2 - 4:30pm | Berkeley Herbal Center
Come and gather with your hands, open heart, and a hand loom to intuitively create a small woven offering for you altar. Together we will connect with northern California natural fibers and explore the fundamentals of handweaving. You will be offered the knowledge and space to practice weaving and create small works, while contemplating your relationship to Land & re-awakening your deep rooted connection with textiles. Each person will take home a one-of-a-kind small woven creature to offer on your altar, in rememberance of our collective connection to textiles.
Process
Guided Meditations
Group Reflections
Intuition-led Craft
Gentle Coaching
Leave With
the fundamental concepts of weaving
one-of-kind smol creature made by you
zine
Materials provided for usage during the class:
Small Weaving loom
2 Shuttles
Beater
Local Hand-dyed wool yarn
Regenerative & Organic Cotton yarn
Scissors
Tapestry Needles
Zine
This class is offered at a sliding scale rate of $90, $115, or $135. To receive a lower cost rate, choose one of the discount codes to use at checkout: WEAVING90 or WEAVING115.
Each class has a minimum of 5 participants and a maximum of 10.
Saturday October 3, 1 - 3:30pm
Address will be provided via email upon sign up.
Saturday October 10, 2 - 4:30pm
1250 Addison St Ste G, Berkeley, CA 94702
About Flore Costumé
Flore Costumé (they/li) is a Haitian-born, Brooklyn-raised artist devoted to craft, plants, and ecological care. They create with natural fibers such as organic cotton, linen, and wool along with plant derived/plant based colors. They work with those materials in hand weaving, fabric & yarn dyeing, creating artist materials such as inks. Their work is devotional and centers their hyperlocal ecological context while uplifting the Haitian cultural technology of lakou.