Post by Frances on Jul 2, 2015 2:42:48 GMT
Interesting article - Kudzu is very invasive in North Georgia growing a foot a day - I have not seen any kudzu fibers or fabric in the market place - Have you. Pronounced Cud Zoo
Kudzu: Weaving and Crochet
with Junco Sato Pollack
Description: Kudzu, what is it good for? Absolutely everything! Especially, for spinners, weavers, crocheters and anyone else interested in working with long bast fibers. Kudzu was introduced to the US in 1876 and is an invasive weed today, but it has been used to make cloth in Japan for centuries. More recently, the grass cloth wallpaper in Arts and Crafts homes of the 40's were kudzu fabrics from Japan and Korea. Today, kudzu is part of the green fiber movement, since its fibers are extracted using nature-derived permaculture methods rather than pesticide-driven farming and chemical-laden factory production processes. No doubt about it: Using this abundant resource to create beautiful fabrics that feel good to wear makes sense!
This is your chance to learn how to harvest and process kudzu naturally (retting, cleaning, splitting, knotting, twisting, and spinning) and how to use the entire kudzu plant to create fiber qualities suitable for various fiber techniques. You'll leave with a table setting created from wild-harvest, naturally-fermented kudzu fibers that you weave or crochet along with a new appreciation and regard for this humble and abundant natural material.
Junco Sato Pollack is an artist and retired Professor of Textiles at Georgia State University, with an MFA in Textile Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She studied weaving, natural dyeing, sericulture, and silk and kudzu fabric weaving in Kyoto Japan with master weaver Tsuguo Odani (a disciple of Soetsu Yanagi, the founder of Japan's Folk Art Museum in Tokoyo and the Falk Art Association). Junco has exhibited her textile artwork internationally for over 30 years, and currently maintains a studio, Muso-an, in Lakemont, GA. She is committed to living in harmony with nature, nurturing sustainable art practices, and to fostering the green handcraft movement in North Georgia. She is also an initiator of Karen Weavers Workshop, an affiliate of the Clarkston Community Center's Women's Coop since 2013.
I copied this from the Southeast Fiber Alliance Website sefaa.secure.force.com/Programs/CnP_PaaS_EVT__ExternalRegistrationPage?event_id=a0ud00000041zBF
Kudzu: Weaving and Crochet
with Junco Sato Pollack
Description: Kudzu, what is it good for? Absolutely everything! Especially, for spinners, weavers, crocheters and anyone else interested in working with long bast fibers. Kudzu was introduced to the US in 1876 and is an invasive weed today, but it has been used to make cloth in Japan for centuries. More recently, the grass cloth wallpaper in Arts and Crafts homes of the 40's were kudzu fabrics from Japan and Korea. Today, kudzu is part of the green fiber movement, since its fibers are extracted using nature-derived permaculture methods rather than pesticide-driven farming and chemical-laden factory production processes. No doubt about it: Using this abundant resource to create beautiful fabrics that feel good to wear makes sense!
This is your chance to learn how to harvest and process kudzu naturally (retting, cleaning, splitting, knotting, twisting, and spinning) and how to use the entire kudzu plant to create fiber qualities suitable for various fiber techniques. You'll leave with a table setting created from wild-harvest, naturally-fermented kudzu fibers that you weave or crochet along with a new appreciation and regard for this humble and abundant natural material.
Junco Sato Pollack is an artist and retired Professor of Textiles at Georgia State University, with an MFA in Textile Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She studied weaving, natural dyeing, sericulture, and silk and kudzu fabric weaving in Kyoto Japan with master weaver Tsuguo Odani (a disciple of Soetsu Yanagi, the founder of Japan's Folk Art Museum in Tokoyo and the Falk Art Association). Junco has exhibited her textile artwork internationally for over 30 years, and currently maintains a studio, Muso-an, in Lakemont, GA. She is committed to living in harmony with nature, nurturing sustainable art practices, and to fostering the green handcraft movement in North Georgia. She is also an initiator of Karen Weavers Workshop, an affiliate of the Clarkston Community Center's Women's Coop since 2013.
I copied this from the Southeast Fiber Alliance Website sefaa.secure.force.com/Programs/CnP_PaaS_EVT__ExternalRegistrationPage?event_id=a0ud00000041zBF
