WildCraft West: our Portland OR studio opened in March 2016. This 3000 sq ft space is also the showroom & shop of Fieldwork Design & Architecture. WildCraft West offers 4-week evening courses and weekend workshops in contemporary craft skills, traditional textile practices and fresh perspectives on art-school classics. If you’d like to stop by the studio, please do so on weekends between 11am-3pm.
WildCraft West 601 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR
Classes at Portland Studio:
Katazome Indigo Resist
Saturday October 20, 2018 - Sunday October 21, 2018
Katazome is a centuries-old Japanese dyeing technique in which artists create a resist paste from a rice flour mixture and apply it to cloth using elaborately hand-carved stencils.
Columbia Plateau Twined Rattle-Lid Basket
Saturday October 20, 2018 - Sunday October 21, 2018
This class will use traditional plant fibers: tule, cattail leaves, sedge grass and cedar, to create a Plateau-style basket with a twined rattle “hat” (lid).
Weekend Weaving Intensive
Friday October 26, 2018 - Sunday October 28, 2018
In this weekend intensive, you will learn how to the basics of weaving on a table-top rigid heddle loom.
The Art of Mending
Sunday October 28, 2018
Extend the life of your clothing, while creating functional art and building vital and utilitarian sewing skills.
Big Baskets- Weaving with Rattan Reed
Saturday November 03, 2018 - Sunday November 04, 2018
Explore structural design and plaited weaving techniques to create unique, large baskets.
Columbia Plateau Cross Warp Basket
Saturday November 03, 2018
This class will use traditional plant fibers: tule, cattail leaves, sedge grass and burr reed, to create a round graceful cross warp basket approximately 5 inch diameter and 7 in tall.
Experimental Weaving
Sunday November 04, 2018
This class is a lab for exploration and sampling, using unconventional materials to push traditional woven construction techniques.
Kalapuya Basket Weaving (nov)
Saturday November 10, 2018
Students will spend the day learning how to process Western Red Cedar bark, prepare it for weaving, weave a medium sized basket.
Large-Scale Felted Vessels
Saturday November 10, 2018 - Sunday November 11, 2018
Learn the ancient art of felted, and leave with a large-scale felted vessel.
Participants will have hands-on experience in processing minerals into pigments, as well as mixing them with various types of binders to make oil paint.
Winter Color: Natural Dyes of Portland
Saturday November 17, 2018
From harvest and plant ID, to preparing fibers: this workshop leads students through all the steps of dying with fresh and dried plants, with a special focus on flowers, berries, trees and ro
Winter Incense: Perfuming the Dark Season
Sunday November 18, 2018
Students create signature incense blends as we explore the lost perfume of the ancients.
