Fiber Arts as Book Arts: Fiber Book Forms (4/4)
Course Code: 26STX102V
This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Thursday, February 19th, from 6:30PM to 8:30PM ET.
- Thursday, February 19th, 6:30PM to 8:30PM ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on February 4th, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
About the Workshop:
This virtual workshop is taught by CBA instructor Iviva Olenick.
Participants in this workshop will learn how to use textile-specific materials to make several types of book covers and structures with fabric and paper. After watching the instructor demonstrate how to attach heavyweight fusible stabilizer to fabric or paper to craft a book cover, she will show how to attach lightweight fusible interfacing to paper or fabric to make the book's inner pages. She will then demonstrate how to stitch the cover and at least one inner page together using a variation of the pamphlet stitch and the whip stitch. Next, she will demonstrate how to embroider only the top layer of paper or fabric covering either heavyweight or lightweight interfacing, and how to embroider on both sides so that both sides are legible. Participants will then make sample book covers and inner pages incorporating these techniques. Finally, the instructor will demonstrate how to use quilt batting and hand stitching to create book covers and pages. Participants will experiment with these techniques, also applying skills and materials from the three previous Fiber Arts as Book Arts sessions, including naturally dyed fabrics from session 1, plant-printed and stamped paper and fabric from session 2, and embroidered paper and fabric from session 3.
The three previous classes are not required but recommended.
This workshop is the final installment in a four part series which also covers natural dyeing, kitchen printing, and embroidery.
Required Materials:
- Plain cotton muslin fabric
- Hand embroidery needles
- Scissors for threads and fabric
- Heavyweight & lightweight fusible interfacing
- Quilt batting
- A selection of papers you would like to experiment wit
- Optional: thimble & embroidery hoop
About the Instructor
Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist developing textiles from seed to fiber and dye and using textiles as texts. Her work has been exhibited all over the United States, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Design Atlanta; the Hunterdon Museum, NJ; Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, NYC; the Center for Book Arts, NYC; the Old Stone House, Brooklyn; Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn.
Olenick is a faculty member of SVA’s MFA Art Practice program where she teaches Fibers. In addition, she gives artist talks and designs intensive textile-based workshops for museums and universities.
All images courtesy of the instructor.