Re-Workshop: T-Shirt Coiling

$134.00
sold out

Sunday April 27
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Lora Bertolo

Materials Fee: $5 if you bring your own t-shirt $10 if you don’t (paid to Instructor)
Students: 12

Celebrate Fashion Revolution Week with us!

In this workshop, Lora gives the traditional craft of basket coiling a fashionable twist and shows participants how to do the same. You will learn to turn a t-shirt, into yarn and use it to create a two or three dimensional object.

The fundamentals of coiling will be covered and the variety of materials that can be used to coil. Along the way, Lora will discuss many tips to assist you in achieving the results you want and finding your style. No previous experience needed. Students are encouraged to bring an old clean t-shirt.

Participants can expect to complete a small piece or come close to completing a piece. The focus is to embrace the process, have fun and be patient.

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Sunday April 27
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Lora Bertolo

Materials Fee: $5 if you bring your own t-shirt $10 if you don’t (paid to Instructor)
Students: 12

Celebrate Fashion Revolution Week with us!

In this workshop, Lora gives the traditional craft of basket coiling a fashionable twist and shows participants how to do the same. You will learn to turn a t-shirt, into yarn and use it to create a two or three dimensional object.

The fundamentals of coiling will be covered and the variety of materials that can be used to coil. Along the way, Lora will discuss many tips to assist you in achieving the results you want and finding your style. No previous experience needed. Students are encouraged to bring an old clean t-shirt.

Participants can expect to complete a small piece or come close to completing a piece. The focus is to embrace the process, have fun and be patient.

Lora Bertolo was raised in Toronto with her Italian immigrant parents. Her interests in textiles started as a child, watching her mom sew. She completed the Fashion Design degree at Toronto Metropolitan University. With years of experience ranging from custom design bridal gowns to producing a knitwear collection, it was in 2020 when completing a Basket Coiling course with Ruth Woods that she found her calling within the textile industry. Coiling supports her values of sustainability and ethical fashion and satisfies her needs as a designer, maker and human. Lora makes functional, fashionable one of a kind bags and baskets using only repurposed materials. She believes the process is therapeutic and the more people that repurpose textiles through coiling the better it is for everyone.