Description: Create vintage-inspired and unique contemporary embellishments and trims using straw braid. You will fashion sashes, bows and ties, feathers, leaves, nuts and pods and learn to wire your materials for expert control of shape and line.

Course outcomes: Learning to work with straw braids. Skills for sewing straw braids by hand or domestic sewing machine (not using a straw braid machine). Braiding and weaving techniques Hand sewing or sewing machine skills to create texture and detail on trim and ornaments. Wiring skills by hand and sewing machine for controlling trim shapes.