Jinsin & Silk Abaca Explored

This course is aimed at:

• Those who want to explore working with Jinsin and silk Abaca.

The course will involve:

• Exploring and experimenting with Jinsin, a material renowned for its sculptural quality. It creates incredible shapes when curved and flexed. The fabric can be stripped away to create a wild spray of fibres.
• Exploring and experimenting with Silk Abaca, a material which is fine and smooth and can be free-shaped, blocked or used for draping.  Because this material is interwoven with silk, it is pliable and creates amazing curves when twisted and shaped.
• A demonstration on how to hot water dye both of these fabrics.
• Creating a blocked base and learning how to wire and line the inside with a petersham edging.
• Tutorials in various trimming techniques including loops, swirls, curls and how to finish the edges to create a fan and how to balance trim positionings.
• Learning how to professionally finish your hat and how to attach an appropriate head fitting.

You will leave with:

• Confidence in working with these inspiring new materials and inspiration to create many more design from them.
• A finished headpiece made of jinsin and/or silk albaca.
• Information on suppliers and materials.