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In contrast

September 11, 2018 By Carolyn Foss

There’s been a definite contrast this past week between Kay Rashka’s Metalwork Jewelry Boot Camp with students using hammers, drills, motorized hand tools, torches and all sorts of shiny and possibly even sharp-edged components for fabricating jewelry and Betty Glynn Carlson’s Navajo Rug Weaving class where students quietly and reflectively place each strand of authentic wool yarn within the warp. Come along for a tour!          With Kay Rashka’s instruction, each student leaves with a collection of interesting, personalized and textured art jewelry.        Navajo Weaving in itself is a journey, using unbroken warp threads and meaningful designs woven out of (often) specific naturally dyed wool.            To finish one piece in this 5-day class is a real accomplishment.  Some of the students had started a rug in a prior year […]

Filed Under: Beading/Stitchery/Wearables, Weaving Tagged With: Betty Glynn Carlson, Kay Rashka, Metalwork Jewelry, Navajo Weaving

Animal, Vegetable and Mineral…?

September 20, 2016 By Carolyn Foss

I guess you could classify the previous three classes that way with Navajo Weaving taught by Betty Glynn Carlson representing “animal” for the authentic wool yarns used, Natural Fiber Basketry with Jo Campbell-Amsler as “vegetable” for the willow, grapevine, Siberian Iris and Daylily leaves incorporated in all shapes of baskets and the Metalwork Jewelry Boot Camp with Kay Rashka as “mineral” for the sheets of copper, brass and silver as base materials. Some students brought back Navajo rugs started in (or finished from) a previous class and others started their first pieces.  The steps along the way to a finished rug involve patience, thoughtfulness and perseverance.       The many varieties of willow, barks, leaves and vines gathered here on the Island or brought by […]

Filed Under: Basketry/Furnishings, Beading/Stitchery/Wearables, Sievers School, Weaving Tagged With: Betty Glynn Carlson, Jo Campbell-Amsler, Kay Rash, Metal Jewelry, Natural Fiber Basketry, Navajo Weaving, willow

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