Educators

Educational Directory

The following is a list of teachers throughout the State of Michigan and surrounding areas that are available to present programs on the various aspects of the Fiber Arts

Pamela J. Arquette
584 S. Howell
Pinckney, MI
Phone 734-954-0007
email: pendragon@chartermi.net
Web Page: www.pamarquette.com

  • Beginning Weaving – Lecture / Workshop
  • Basic Drafting – Lecture / Workshop
  • “Tying One On” How to tie and wear scarves – Lecture only Sewing with Handwovens – Lecture / Workshop
  • Getting Ready for an Exhibit or Show Pricing your work: Lecture only

For a complete lsit of classes and information check Pam’s web site.

Other requirements: Mileage, Food and Overnight Lodging, if required. Lodging in host home is fine. MLH areas served: All
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JoAnn Bachelder
1001 S. Henry St
Bay City, MI 48706,
Phone 989-892-3013
e-mail: rivtex@sbcglobal.net

Workshops / Lectures offered

  • Altered Surfaces
  • Color Color via the Dye Pot Color Dye ‘Gamp’
  • Drafting Revisited Finishing
  • Dimity: From the 15h Century to the New Millennium
  • Levels, Layers, Strata, Position
  • Overshot Linen Weave Gamp
  • Overshot: ‘Manners of Weaving’
  • Motifs in Overshot
  • Three Shaft Weaves: When Less is More
  • Towels: Transcending Tradition Towel Class
  • Transition: Hobby to Business

Other Requirements: Mileage, food and overnight lodging, if required. Lodging in a host home is fine.

MLH areas served: All

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Lois Bryant
1505 Sheridan Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-665-9849
email: loisbethbryant@aol.com
website: www.LoisBryantStudio.com

  • Multi-harness weaving; Jacquard weaving, hand embroidery, color
  • “Mysterious, Marvelous Color: From Basic to Magic!” 2 day workshop
  • “Marvelous, Magical Color for Handweavers” 2 or 3 day workshop
  • “Double Weave Magic Made Easy” 2, 3 or 4 day workshop

Requirements: Food, Lodging, Travel (airfare or mileage)

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Gisela Bosch
4229 Chapel View Circle
Brighton, MI 48114
810-227-4678
email: giselab@comcast.net

Workshops / Lectures offered:

  • Round Robin Linen Lace Workshop
  • Harrisville Color Weave Sampler Workshop
  • Doubleweave Workshop
  • Chenille Scarf Workshop
  • Namedrafting
  • Learn to Knit the European Way
  • Sock Knitting
  • Weaving Workshop – Bed & Breakfast
  • Shadow Weave – Round Robin Workshop

All Workshops have a per person material fee plus a supply list.

Other requirements: Travel and Food, lodging in host home (prefer nonsmoker) or motel. MLH areas served: All

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Su Butler
2220 Mustang Trail, Woodstock, IL 60098
Phone: 815-337-6657
email: subu@subudesigns.com
web site: www.subudesigns.com

  • Understanding Rayon Chenille
  • Untying the Mysteries of Tied-Unit Weaves
  • Color Interaction for Handweavers
  • Surface Design for Handweavers
  • Easy Pickup
  • Beginning Warp Painting
  • Warp Painting
  • Beginning Weave Drafting
  • Rug Weaving – Taquette, Samitum and More!

Other requirements: Non-smoking, pet-free environment. Private bed and bath. Healthy diet – i.e., fruit, veggies, salads, etc., plenty of bottled water. MLH areas served: All

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Kathryn Carras
585 Dhu Varren Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
734-662-6366
e-mail: weaverlady@aol.com
web page: 

Workshops / Lectures offered:

  • Knitted Doll Making
  • Needle Felting
  • Using the Weavette Loom

Other requirements: Mileage and lodging if necessary MLH areas served: All

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Millie Danielson
1000 Vesper Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
313-663-9881

Workshops / Lectures offered:

  • Architectural Weaving
  • Tour of Three State-Supported Weaving Ateliers
  • Weaving for the Wall
  • Weaving with Wire Workshop
  • Liturgical Weaving
  • Tapestry Design with Colored Tissue
  • Weaving with Wire Sculptural Pile
  • Tapestry Weaving Tapestry Choices

Other requirements: Mileage ($.35 per mile) and overnight lodging in host home. MLH areas served: All

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Jochen Ditterich
4333 Valleyside Dr.
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
616-361-9809 or 616-304-5337
email: weaverjochen@yahoo.com
also weaverjochen@comcast.net
Website - www.Weaverjochen.com

  • Blankets – Lecture Blankets – Workshop
  • Rugs – Lecture Rugs – Workshop
  • Weaving Hints and Helpful Tools

Other requirements: Mileage; lodging in host home if overnight stay is required. MLH areas served: All

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Judy A. Dominic
10611 Marvin Road
Harrison, OH 45030-1633
H/O: 513-367-0710, Fax: 513-367-6137
Email: judy@midwestbasketry.com
Website: www.midwestbasketry.com

Workshops / Lectures offered:

  • Bogolanfini – It’s All in the Mud
  • Contemporary Basketry and Its Makers
  • A Fiber Artist – My Story
  • Bogolanfini
  • Modified Plaiting Madness
  • Double Pie Basket – Ribbed Style
  • Seagrass Soft Sculpture Gutsy Stuff Practically Perfect Paper!
  • Wool Drying Basket Random Weave Basket

Fees: All workshops have a per person material fee plus supply list. Pictures of projects supplied on request.

Other requirements: Travel and food; lodging in host home (prefer nonsmoker) or motel. MLH areas served: All

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Anne Flora
210 West Chicago Boulevard
Tecumseh, MI 49286
517-423-7348
email: aflora@umcih.edu

  • Felted Clutch Purses and Cloche Hats (2 day workshop)
  • Shibori Dyeing Workshop (2 day workshop)
  • Nuno-Felted Scarf Workshop (2 day workshop)
  • Felted Mittens and Berets (2 day workshop)
  • Felted Slippers (1 day workshop)

Minimum number of students is 6 and maximum is 9

Will stay with a guild host no dietary restrictions Travel and mileage

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Jennifer Gould
435 Woodburn, SW
Byron Center, MI 49315
616-878-1526
email: jgould1526@esagelink.com
website: www.jennifergoulddesigns.com

  • Dolls by Contemporary Dollmakers
  • Designing Dolls Dolls from Handwoven Fabrics – Lecture
  • Dolls from Handwoven Fabrics – Workshop
  • See-Through Dolls
  • Make a Face — and Hands, Too! – Lecture
  • Make a Face and Hands – Workshop
  • Surface Design on Fabric – Lecture
  • Surface Design on Fabric: Printing and Painting – Workshop
  • Surface Design on Fabric: Embellish with the Sewing Machine – Workshop
  • Photo Transfer Techniques for Fabric – Lecture
  • Photo Transfer Techniques for Fabric – Workshop
  • The Evolution of My Work
  • Fabric Collage
  • So, You Want to Be A Self-Employed Artist?

Other requirements: Mileage (current IRS rate), food, and lodging (if over 2-hour drive from Grand Rapids). Travel to Area 1 would necessitate a motel stop in each direction. MLH areas served: All

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Sandra Griggs
25635 Hayes
Warren, MI 48089-4165
Phone 586-774-2203
email Royalangoras@hotmail.com
and sra7742203@aol.com
Web Page:

  • Chemical Dying Designer Yarns
  • Warping a Loom
  • Learn How to Weave

Other requirements: Mileage and lodging if required to stay overnight.

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Sue Holdaway-Heys
2605 Powell Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone 734-971-4980
email: shhart@aol.com
web page: www.sueholdaway-heys.com

  • Step By Step to a Landscape or Floral quilt
  • The Frosting on the Cake Sources of Inspiration For My Art Quilts and How I create Them

Other requirements: 48 cents mileage (or current IRS rate), Lodging if needed. MLH areas served: All

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Bonnie Inouye
Weaving, Design
Address from September through May 25:
3304 Gumwood Dr.
Hyattsville, MD 20783 (near Washington D.C.)Address all Summer:
P.O. box 2510
Crested Butte, CO 81224
email: bonnieinouye@yahoo.com
Phone in Maryland: 301.422.8926
Phone in Colorado: 970.349.5801
website: www.bonnieinouye.comWorkshops:

  • The Big Twill
  • Autumn and Springtime: Beyond Summer and Winter
  • Advance!
  • Opposites Attract
  • The Big Overshot
  • Loom-Controlled Imagery

For descriptions, details and photographs visit my website. Requirements: Transportation, meals and a place to stay.

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Leslie Johnson
2721 S. Michigan Road
Eaton Rapids, MI 48827
Phone: 517-663-0357
e-mail: rivloom@sbcglobal.net

Workshops

  • Beginning Inkle weaving (one-day)
  • Advanced Inkle weaving (one-day)
  • Weaving rag rugs (one or two days)

All MLH areas. One day: $250. Two days: $450. Fee plus mileage, lodging, food. One-day crash course in rag rug weaving in my home studio: $150. Beginning weaving lessons in my home studio: $150 for six 2-hour sessions.

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Marilyn Kempf
Weaver’s Ct.
312 Union St.
Jackson, MI 49203
email: r-mkempf@sbcglobal.net

  • Finnweave Complex Drafting
  • Drafting
  • Kumihimo on a Disk
  • Pulled Warp Technique in Clothing
  • Clothing Inspirations
  • Block Weave Lecture/Workshop

Other requirements: Mileage, food and overnight lodging, if necessary. MLH area served: All

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Marty Lawrence
1151 Heatherwoods Road
Flint, MI 48532
Phone: 810-733-1519
email: blawr29554@aol.com

  • Hand-Dyed Special Effects
  • Michigan Quilt Artist Trunk Show
  • Dye a Fabric Rainbow
  • “Marbelous” Fabric Magic
  • Shibori for Artistic Sewers
  • Kids, Quilts, and Surface Design
  • Silk Ribbon Embroidery

Other requirements: Travel expenses and lodging (private room in a non-smoking, pet-free household or motel). MLH Areas served: All

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Dianne J. Little
11040 Berwick
Livonia, MI 48150
Phone: 734-421-8382
Email: diannejlittle@hotmail.com

  • Weavers, Weavings and Traditions: Historical Coverlets
  • Textile Conservation

Other requirements: Mileage, lodging and food if required to stay overnight. MLH served: All

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Kati Reeder Meek
7796 North Pointe Shores,
Alpena, MI 49707-8843
Phone: 989-358-0162
Email: krmeek@charter.net

  • For Love of Lithuanian Weaving
  • Weaving with Long-eyed Heddles
  • Whacking Your Warp
  • Tartans – The Designing
  • Tartans – The Weaving
  • Tartans – The Wearing

Other requirements: travel expenses, meals and lodging. MLH served: All

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Kris Miller Spruce Ridge Studios
1786 N. Eager Rd., Howell, MI
Phone 517-546-7732
Email: kris@spruceridgestudios.com

  • Primitive Rug Hooking

Other requirements: Mileage and lodging if required to stay overnight.

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Loretta Oliver
248-433-1067
email: retsie@aol.com
website: www.loretta-fiber.com

  • “Evolution of a Felter” – Digital presentation about my fiber experiences 1 hour
  • “Felt Amulets” 1.5 hours
  • “Felt Tulip & Poppy Corsage” 3 Hours
  • “Wavy Woven Felted Fabric Condensed” 6 hours
  • “Felting on Silk and Microwave Dyeing” 2 days
  • “Create a Workshop” Workshops can be desinged to fit the needs of your group.

Willing to stay with a Guild Hostess. Mileage, Meals and lodging if required.

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Karen Koykka O’Neal
1920 Scottwood Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4509
Phone: 734-665-2242
email: kko@umich.edu

  • A Basket is an Extension of Your Hand
  • Basketry- The Process
  • Introduction to Hand Papermaking
  • From Plants to Paper
  • Papyrus – The Ancient Internet

Other requirements: Mileage and lodging if you are far away! MLH areas served: All

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Susan Peters
25120 Rose
Roseville, MI 48066
Phone: 586-771-5729
Email: wildchildfibres@earthlink.net

  • Dyeing Cotton – Lecture
  • Dyeing Cotton – Workshop

Other requirements: Mileage and lodging if required. MLH areas served: All

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Martha Reeves
269-324-5546
Workshops and seminars offered:
       .  Bead Leno
       .  Fiber Jewelry
For more information, go to web site:  www.marthareevesweaver.com

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Mary Lulich
298 N. State Street
Shelby, MI 49455
Phone: 231-861-0022
email: mary@marylulich.com
website: www.marylulich.com

I teach the following:

  • Beginning weaving
  • Calculating Warp and Weft (plus use of McMorran Balance)
  • Warping methods: Board, Reel, Paddle, Trapeze, Sectional Beaming, Threading, Sleying and Weaving
  • In Home Studio: Offer retreats with room and board. Day classes.

Willing to travel.

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Holly J. Shaltz
Business: HJS Studio
P.O. Box 136, 05797
Lee Road
Boyne City, MI 49712-0136
Phone 231-582-3206
Fax 231-582-0426

  • Weaving with Handspun Singles – Lecture
  • Commercial Fiber Processing
  • Washing Raw Wool
  • Choosing Quality Wool Problem Project
  • Spinning Angora
  • Weaving with Handspun Singles – Workshop
  • Handspinning Fine Wools
  • Estimating How Much Fiber to Spin
  • Basics of Handcarding
  • Basics of Drumcarding
  • Drumcarder as Design Tool
  • Woolen or Worsted?
  • Talk About Twist Measure Your Yarn
  • Plying Tips and Tricks
  • Designing Handspun Yarn
  • Spinning with Color
  • Color Fun!
  • Basics of Wool Dying
  • Spinning Warp Singles
  • Microwave Rainbow Dyeing
  • Adapting Knitting Patterns to Handspun Yarn
  • Spinning Great Sock Yarn

Other requirements: Current IRS mileage; meals and non-smoking lodging in private room. Some presentations have a materials fee per student. *One lecture provided free of charge if a class or workshop is scheduled for the same trip. MLH areas served: All

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Pat Thompson
42 Woodlore Ct.
Brighton, MI 48114
810-227-7773
email: topaz@progressivehomes.com

  • Knit Amulet Necklace
  • French Wire Beaded Violet

Other requirements: Mileage from Brighton and housing if more than an hour’s drive. MLH areas served: All

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Sandy Webster
555 Rivercane Road
Brasstown, NC 28902
Phone: 828-837-3971
Email: wstudio55@hotmail.com
web site: www.sandywebster.com

  • An Artist’s Journey Toward Content
  • Idea to Form
  • Basketry From the Loom
  • Introduction to Bookbinding
  • Making and Using a Journal Which Goes From Field to Studio
  • Book, Basket, Box – Placement for Memory
  • Altering Surfaces of Cloth and Paper

Other requirements: Mileage and housing when necessary MLH areas served: All

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Kathy Zasuwa
2284 Great Oak Drive
Milford, MI 48380
Phone 248-684-0695
email: kzart9@comcast.net

  • Basic Drawing: Creating Imagery for Woven Cloth – Lecture or Workshop
  • Creative Process: Clearing the Path and Finding the Flow – Lecture
  • Clearing a Path: Creative Commitment
  • Beyond the Basics in Moorman Inlay – Lecture
  • Beyond Basics in Moorman Inlay – Workshop Description

Other requirements: Mileage; lodging if overnight stay required. MLH areas served: All

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