Summer 2010
METAL INTERPRETATIONS OF TEXTILE TECHNIQUES
August 2-6, 2010
Colleen Lynch
Crochet, knitting and weaving are traditional Maritime skills. Metal can be purchased in very fine thread-like sizes. Bring the two together and you open up limitless possibilities for creating sculpture, home décor and jewelry. Metal doesn’t act like yarn however so this workshop explores how textile techniques can easily be adapted to metal. Manipulating small diameter wires requires only a few simple hand tools and can be done anywhere. After a brief discussion of metals’ characteristics, we will use various sized wires and needles to knit both flat and in the round. We will also do tubular knitting. Crochet will follow. This technique is amazingly freewheeling; your imagination will soar. We will then explore loom and off-loom weaving and incorporating other materials and found objects. During the last two days students will design and complete two or three small projects with emphasis on finishing techniques. Only basic knitting and crocheting skills are required. No weaving experience is necessary, and no metalworking experience is needed.
Course Only: $335.00 +HST;
Course & 5 Nights Accommodations: $530.00 +HST
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Colleen Lynch
Colleen Lynch is an award-winning artist and internationally known instructor. Both fibre and metal have played pivotal roles in an art practice that now spans more than 40 years, sometimes singly and sometimes in concert. Works range in scale from architectural installations to hand-held objects. Research into traditional resource-based cultures hand work has often provided both visual and metaphorical stimulation. In 2009 both metal works and fibre works were represented in juried national and international exhibitions.
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