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For details contact Patricia Steinhoff at 988-7395 email steinhof@hawaii.edu

WORKSHOP DATES:

Oahu Jan. 6 - 8, 2012
Kona Jan. 13 - 15, 2012

What happens when you combine mathematics and music in the hands of a fiber artist? Jennifer Moore during her MFA studies created harmonious relationships with all three areas of study and designed amazing woven gardens of color and style. Mathematical explorations of weaving patterns were drawn full scale without a computer in a systematic fashion! Works of symmetry, along with a disciplinary approach of pick up in weaving, characterized her art. She even composed a chromatic fantasy where colors danced with music on a woven fabric. Unfortunately, I don’t have an adequate snap shot to show you the effect it created during her Honolulu lecture presentation. It will have to be left to your imagination… Jennifer’s definition of art is “a personal visual expression of your life.” Indeed.

Ghislaine Chock

HONOLULU GROUP

15 Photos in the photo album below

Melissa Arnold - Nuno Felting and Dyeing Workshop - April, 2010

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Melissa Arnold has been working with textiles for over 20 years. She began as a weaver and spinner and moved full time into surface design in 1990, when she moved to Hawaii where she learned the art of shibori and indigo dyeing from the Temari Center for Asian Arts. She is currently collaborating with Fashion Designer Catherine Bacon, producing textiles for her spring and fall collections. Melissa’s work includes many different processes such as dyeing, devore’, discharge, screen printing, shibori, resist scouring, wool collage, felting, and nuno felting.

She has taught workshops in Hawaii, at the Big Sky Fiber Festival in Montana, the Coupeville Art Center on Whidbey Island, Washington and in Auburn, California. Her work has won many awards and is in the collections of the Nippon Silk Center, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and numerous private collections across the country. In spring of 2005, her work was on the cover of Ornament magazine in a featured article about designer Catherine Bacon.

Photo above: "Om Tara" by Melissa Arnold

Nuno Felting is the art of merging wool fibers into a fabric, usually silk. It is a remarkable process combing a lightweight silk fabric with wool felted into it to create alightweight fabric with a drape ability not normally associated with felt.

In traditional felting, the wool fibers are squished together using soap, heat, and pressure until a non-woven fabric is produced.

In nuno, the wool fibers are either laid on top of the fabric or punched down into it, water and soap are added, and the mass made into a sandwich with (usually) plastic sheets and or bubble wrap. The sandwich is then rolled, rewrapped, rolled again, and repeated until the fabric and the wool become one, then it is rinsed and dried.

You might think, I live in Honolulu, why would I be interested in anything that is wool? One of the nice things about nuno felting is that you determine where the warmth is. You could make a gauzy silk jacket with little bits of felt across the shoulders to keep warm in chilly air-conditioned rooms.

The photo to the right is typical of the work we will be creating during the workshop.

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