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Visibly mending clothes with sashiko & darning

  • PS1 Close House 538 South Gilbert Street Iowa City, IA, 52240 United States (map)

with Lilah Ward Shepherd
Sat. March 15, 10am-1pm
at the IC Press Co-op (225 N. Gilbert)

pay-what-you-can: $25-$100

Students will learn visible mending techniques for both woven and knitted clothing. Techniques covered will include hand sewing with sashiko thread with an introduction to sashiko and boro styles & darning creating woven patches using a loom. Students should bring any scraps of fabric they will be mending with as well as the articles of clothing they want to mend.

Open to ages 14+.

Registration deadline: March 14

*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from Hills Bank and individual donors. $87 is the true cost of the workshop, and we encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford, or pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.

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Lilah Ward Shepherd is a multidisciplinary artist working with textiles, natural dyeing, printmaking, clay, painting and drawing. She received her MFA from the university of Iowa in printmaking and MA in ceramics. Her work explores color relationships, geometric shapes and patterning, relationships between forms and space while investigating human relationships, identity, ancestry, peace, comfort, and play.