Camphill Village Kimberton Hills hosts Fiber Arts Workshops

January 11, 2012 12:54pm

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills hosts Fiber Arts Workshops

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills announces several fiber arts workshops to be held in the winter and early spring of 2012.


• Nuno Felting, learn to use silk and wool to create unique handmade scarves.

Saturday, January 21, 9 a.m. to noon

$50 in advance - strongly recommended as workshop space is limited

$60 day of, no guarantee if workshop is full

Materials included.

 

• Spinning with a Drop Spindle, learn to spin your own yarn

Saturday, March 10, 9 a.m. to noon

$50 in advance - strongly recommended as workshop space is limited

$60 day of, no guarantee if workshop is full

Includes wool and your own drop spindle.

 

• Beginning Spinning with a Wheel, learn to card with hand and drum carders and spin and ply wool using a spinning wheel

Saturday, March 24, 9 a.m. to noon

$45 in advance

$50 day of

$80 both spinning workshops in advance

 

• Beginning Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom, learn to warp a loom and weave a scarf

Saturdays, April 14 and 28, 9 a.m. to noon

$120 in advance

Materials included.

 

For further information and to reserve a place, please call Felicity at 610-935-0350. All workshops are held in the Fiber Arts Workshop, Kepler Building, Camphill Village Kimberton Hills. Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is located at 1601 Pughtown Road, Kimberton, PA.

 

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The mission at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, located in Kimberton, Pa., is to encourage individuals, especially those with special needs, to discover and fulfill their greatest developmental and creative potential within a farming and handcrafting community. In valuing persons of all abilities, Kimberton Hills seeks to foster a living and working environment that is sustainable, productive and beautiful. Residents and volunteers uniquely contribute to the community through meaningful vocations such as gardening, dairy farming, and working in the café, bakery and handicraft workshops. As the community cares for one another, it also nurtures and improves the land by practicing biodynamic agriculture and raising environmental awareness.

 

For more information, visit http://www.camphillkimberton.org.