Bojagi, The Art of Wrapping Cloths presented by Youngmin Lee

Bojagi (Korean Wrapping Cloths) are pieced together from small scraps of cloth. It is the most unique form of Korean textile art. Bojagi occupied a prominent place in the daily lives of Koreans of all classes. They were used to wrap or carry everything from precious ritual objects to everyday clothes and common household goods also to cover food. It is strikingly contemporary: the designs and colors of bojagi remind one of the works of modern abstract artists. Bojagi can be described as a true form of abstract expressionism. Youngmin Lee will talk about bojagi during this lecture and show her bojagi works after the lecture.

Youngmin Lee is a textile artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied Clothing and Textile in college and continued her studies and received an MFA in Fashion Design. She worked as a fashion designer in Seoul, South Korea.

She chose Bojagi (Korean wrapping cloths) as her creative medium and presented workshops on Korean Textile Arts including Bojagi workshops. In addition to teaching in person, Youngmin created the DVD Bojagi: The Art of Wrapping Cloths in 2013 to reach people from afar. She teaches numerous workshops about Bojagi and Korean traditional textile art from.

She founded the Korean Textile Tour in 2017 to introduce Korean traditional textile art and culture.

Youngmin’s bojagi works have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and abroad. The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has her works in the museum collection. Her three bojagi artwork is currently showing at the Korean gallery in the museum until September 2022.

This is a ZOOM meeting:

Topic: Santa Barbara Fiber Arts Guild with Youngmin Lee 

Time: Jun 4, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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A Virtual Visit of Blue: the Tatter Textile Library

BLUE, the TATTER Textile Library is an ever-growing home to over 6000 books, journals, exhibition catalogs and objects which examine and celebrate the global history, traditions, makers, craft and beauty of textiles. BLUE is both an ongoing art-installation as well as a fully functioning research library. Currently the library is home to the book and/or object collections of 7 different women, including Edith Wyle (founder of the Craft and Folk Art Museum), artist Carol Westfall, sampler historian Glee Krueger, and Western Costume collector and gallerist Cora Ginsburg. BLUE is a registered 501(c)3 and was founded in 2017 by artist Jordana Munk Martin. BLUE is also home to a speaker series and its beloved semi annual contemporary journal: Tatter Journal.

BLUE’s parent company TATTER, offers over 65 online workshops annually in long form and short form programming, in all areas of handwork and textile making, as well as travel opportunities, and unique products for making and enjoying cloth.

www.tatter.org

or follow our instagram feeds: @tatterbluelibrary @tatterjournal @shoptatter 

This is a ZOOM meeting at 10am PST on Saturday, May 7th.

Topic: SBFiberArtsGuild’s Zoom MeetingTime: May 7, 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Foraging and Extracting Natural Dyes in California 

Join Linda Illumanardi in Los Angeles as she shares her most recent explorations in the foothills of the San Gabriel foothills in Los Angeles. Linda bases her selections on pigment and tannin content, seeking a stable dye on both protein and cellulose fibers. Linda will share her processes of extraction and testing while also presenting the results of these experiments. 

Linda Illumanardi was born and raised in the mountains of Vermont, toddling behind her grandmother reciting the names of local weeds, flowers, and trees. Now in California, she does the same thing with her 3 grandsons, basket in hand, gathering gently leaves from trees that become the content and design of her books, fabric, and ceramics. Linda began eco-printing on paper, to accompany her handmade book designs (artist book limited edition Otis College, Los Angeles, CA 2001, published in Lark 500 Handmade Books, second edition, 8 collagraph plates).

With a Master’s degree in painting, and multitudes of printing classes and residencies, Linda loves to make impressions in each environment that she visits. She states, “Whether in the mountains, forest, at the ocean, or in the high desert, there are always multitudes of textures, colors, and natural objects waiting to be immortalized.”

Wanting to expand her explorations, Linda naturally shifted to making botanical prints on silk and wool, cotton fibers, leather and ceramics, working as a mad scientist in her quiet studio in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest on the outskirts of a horse stable. Linda is clearly an artist in each world she inhabits. She loves testing local botanicals for natural dyes and tannins.

Linda has been teaching since 1987 for public, private, and charter schools, as well as writing curriculum and teaching out of her home studio for artists ages 3-83. Please see her lifestyle and work on her public Instagram account at linda.illumanardi .

This will be a ZOOM meeting at 10 am on Saturday, April 2nd. The ZOOM link will be posted closer to the date or CONTACT us for the link.

March 5, 2022 10:00 am Zoom Guild presentation by Taiana Geifer , on her experiences felting art pieces, wall hangings, scarves, and pieces for the home. Her title: “Twelve Years Later, I’m Still a Felter! ” Taiana writes: “As a felter, my mission is to create timeless, versatile pieces of art by bringing ancient felting techniques to the modern textiles world. Each piece is unique and 100% handmade by me. I began experimenting with handmade fabrics in 2007 while visiting family in Germany. What started as simple artistic curiosity quickly grew into a passionate and inspired desire to create with and share the ancient felting process. Collaborating with Calvin Klein’s head designer Francisco Costa, I created a number of custom felted fabrics for CK’s 2009 fall RTW runway show. Since then I have worked on my own collections of scarves and blankets, selling to stores world wide. I have also collaborated with a number of other designers, including Helmut Lang, Maiyet and Rick Owen, creating fabrics to be used in their collections. After almost a decade of making textiles for the fashion industry, I longed to bring my craft into the eyes of the art world and home interiors realm. “ For more information, visit taiana.com

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SPRANG is coming (sorry, couldn’t stop myself)

Carol James has always been interested in playing with strings and is of the opinion that anywhere is a good place to weave. Seeing her passion for diverse textile techniques, local military re-enactors asked her for reproduction sashes … sprang sashes, and Carol had to explore that technique as well. She quickly discovered that sprang can be used for much more than sashes. Here she is wearing a sprang shirt that was accepted in the HGA Convergence Fashion Show that never happened last summer! Wanting to learn more about sprang and the ways it has been used in the past, Carol has taken the opportunity to visit collections across North American and Europe. To better understand these items, she maps out the patterns, and has made replicas of some of these items for several important museum collections. She has also made modern wearables, which more than once have been accepted by the Handweavers Guild of America’s Convergence Fashion Show. Happy to share her knowledge, and hoping to provide an easier learning-curve for others, she has taught classes across Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Europe. Her students find her to be both patient and enthusiastic. Her students urged her to enter the world of publishing, making her handouts available as books. She is now the author of three books: Fingerweaving Untangled, Sprang Unsprung, Sprang Lace Patterns, as well as numerous articles and 2 DVDs.

This is ZOOM meeting with pre-registration required. Here is the link:

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When: Mar 6, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Dye Day at Tucker’s Grove Park – August 4th (9 am to 3 pm)

Once again we will have multiple dye vats set up for sampling.  This year it is indigo and mushroom plus cochineal and oxalis! (if everyone remembers to bring their frozen flowers!)

This is always a fun day.  Please remember to bring a picnic lunch and any dye vat you want to share.  There will be some shibori tools available. Bring gloves and wear old clothes. Bring something to dye, please note it must be a natural fabric to take the dye well.  Nothing large or bulky and not too many items.  The public is welcome.  Bring your lunch and something to drink, it may be warm

Tucker’s Grove is at the intersection of Turnpike and Cathedral Oaks.  Look for us at one of the picnic areas not too far in.