Instruction

If it's not material, it's “immaterial.” Resume

• Weaving and Weaving Related Workshops for all levels
• A strong focus on Color and Color Systems
• Mix and Match topics, tailored for the needs and interest of your group

Bonnie’s Fees: $400 per day plus travel, room and board.

Internship and apprenticeship opportunities available.

Workshops

The New and Vastly Improved:
Color Horoscope Weaving

Discover a unique method of color blending.
Each dazzling warp is a personal rainbow.

• The focus is entirely on color, fiber and winding warps.
• Horoscopes are pre-graphed and ready to wind with a new easy to follow vertical draft.
• Select and bring your own yarn based on fiber, weight and color preferences
• The number of students is limited only by the size of the room.

Supply fee: Reduced in half to $30

In a 1-day workshop, students receive a copy of their personal horoscope along with a winding draft and six pages of winding instructions, color sample cards, a woven sample and hands-on demonstration of winding.

In a 2-day workshop, all of above plus students wind their warp

In a 3-day workshop, all of above plus Bonus Feature: the Circle of Life Horoscope Necklace (additional $10 supply fee) 
Student leaves with finished piece
 

Three New Workshops
With The Non-Weaver In Mind

Finding The Colors Within

Inspiring, insightful, relaxing, and fun

Through focused intention discover the colors of your hopes and dreams. With no experience and minimal supplies, transform color preferences into collage. Turn collage into meaningful thread and thread into a powerful woven statement. Guaranteed to fill you with ideas!

Supply fee: 0
 

Circle Of Life Necklace

Your Moment in Time Translated Into Beads
Imagine carefully selected gem beads combined with 12 colors of seed beads to form a distinctive piece of jewelry to treasure forever. Based upon an individual horoscope, each necklace brings dynamic energy to the wearer. No experience necessary, but a love of beads is a must. All materials supplied
Supply fee: $50 includes personal horoscope, individually prepared beading graph, beads, beading chord and needles.

Wrapped Silk Brooch

Create a piece of wearable art
Learn how to make perfect wrappings using custom dyed, space-dyed and ikat dyed fine silk yarn. In a 1-day workshop, student will complete at least one brooch. In addition to the brooch, as a group we will create an exciting piece of wall art.

Supply fee $30 includes a variety of pre-cut shapes, over 100 shades of 20/2 to 60/2 silk yarn, all adhesives and findings.

Exploring Not-So-Plain Weave

Break free from the limitations of a small 4-harness loom and create fancy weaving as large as the imagination.

Learn a unique method of color blending (Woven Words), design on the warping board with Easy Ikat and in the reed with skipped dent, discover exciting things to do with thrums and scraps, work with non-traditional wefts, practice spontaneous weaving from the heart, experiment with log cabin variations, joining techniques, and chenille tricks. All of this (and more) is accomplished in a warm and playful atmosphere, round robin style. Bonnie shares her secrets, hints and tips through beautiful slides, luscious examples and informative handouts. This workshop is designed for all weaving levels and can be tailored to fit all time slots from seminar to 3-day.

Bonnie’s Easy Ikat

A new twist on an ancient technique.

This workshop is geared toward sharpening the sense of design and color while exploring this unique ikat variation. Prepare a skein of yarn for dyeing at home. Design and create a spontaneous warp from pre-dyed 3/2 cotton, 6 to 8 inches wide by 3 yards long. The workshop includes an exciting slide show and sumptuous samples, and it promises to add new dimensions to your creativity. Workshop length: 1-day

Supply fee: $35

Woven Words

An intriguing color system designed to sharpen color acuity and creativity
The 1-day workshop begins with an exciting display of woven word examples. Just imagine a color name draft, with a color and number for every letter of the alphabet, and you have a picture of woven words. Students learn a beautiful wrapping technique, wrap their names, and transfer this color sequence to a weft-faced weaving. After having woven their names, students have an opportunity to weave family names, a personal motto, or a short poem. Perfect for towels.

Supply fee: $15 includes yarn, wrapping cards, and handout.
Students bring warped loom.
 

Seminars

Exploring Not-So-Plain Weave

Take a look at exciting ways to make some pretty fancy weaving. From joining techniques to chenille ideas and using up all your thrums, break free of the limitations of a small or medium sized loom and create fabric as large as your imagination. From hints and tips to slides and luscious examples, see what’s been happening in Bonnie’s studio.

Traveler By Loom

“In 1959 on my way to lunch with a friend, I happened upon the loom room of the textile department at Rhode Island School of Design. This was my first encounter with a loom, and it was love at first sight. I changed my major on the spot and began my weaving journey.”

Blending a classical design background with 45 years of weaving experience and misadventures, Bonnie shares the development of her original techniques “Color Horoscope Weaving”, “Woven Words” and “Finding the Colors Within”. Strongly influenced by ethnic textiles, symbols and systems, Bonnie seeks to encode messages in her highly personal textiles. In a manner that is accessible, warm, and extremely entertaining, Bonnie will leave you inspired and ready to weave.

Color Horoscope Weaving

Bonnie demonstrates her fascination with color, love of symbolic textiles and interest in astrology that culminates in luscious and magical fabrics. With slides and many samples, you will be captivated by a color experience that is out of this world.

Bonnie’s Easy Ikat

Colorful slides and luxurious samples clearly illustrate this unique variation of an ancient technique. Everyone who has experienced this program (in addition to being well entertained) has said, “I can do that!” This is an inspiring and informative presentation.