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Designing Garments With Anita Mayer

Clothing to Make, Embellish and Wear In this 3 session class, explore ways to create garments that suit you and your life style. Day 1: Focus is on trying on a

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Designing Garments With Anita Mayer

Designing Garments With Anita Mayer

Clothing to Make, Embellish and Wear In this 3 session class, explore ways to create garments that suit you and your life style. Day 1: Focus is on trying on a

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Clothing to Make, Embellish and Wear

In this 3 session class, explore ways to create garments that suit you and your life style.  

Day 1:  Focus is on trying on a wide range of clothing, copying patterns and exploring fabric choices, color, longings, edges and joins.

Day 2:  Make samples that will transform cloth using various techniques including resist, paint sticks, discharge and stamping plus two silk scarves using fabric paint/shibori.

Day 3: Focus on creating samples of contemporary embroidery for clothing, simple braids and beading.

Note: A complete reference notebook will be completed by each student.



Details:
A Materials Fee of $85 will be added when you register. Class material fees include:  all surface design fabrics and materials, embroidery threads, fabrics, yarn for braids, beads, cloth for beads, needles, handouts and miscellaneous studio supplies.

In addition to items provided by the instruction and the BARN Fiber Studio, students will be sent a list of basic supplies after registering that they will need to bring to class such as an apron, plastic glove, tape measure, etc.

Please bring a bag lunch. We have a refrigerator for storage.

Instructor Bio:

Anita Luvera Mayer was introduced to looms and weaving by her mother-in-law, a well-known Seattle weaving instructor.  Clothing designed and worn by Anita always relates to ethnic garments with the finishes and embellishments done by hand.  Her work has been included in national and international shows and one-woman retrospectives. 

Her garment “Rags to Riches” was selected from  6000 entries for inclusion in the Fiber Arts Design Book #7. In addition, Anita’s series “Mantles for Women: Rites of Passage”, a collection of six garments, was  the focus of an exhibition “Life Passages: Women, Dress and Culture” at the Beach Museum at Kansas State University.  This series has been donated to the university by Ms. Mayer and the collection will be integrated into the courses in the Women’s Studies Program. 

Anita presents workshops and lectures throughout the United States and Canada and  is the author of five books with her articles appearing frequently in major fiber publications. Anita's book, Clothing from the Hands that Weave has just been republished by Echo Printing.  Her studio is located in Anacortes, Washington.


Contact Person:  Carol Reynolds, carolre2077@gmail.com or Roberta Nelson, robertasn@comcast.net 


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