CENTERING WITH FIBER

Friday, October 16, 2015

Saori Santa Cruz weaving classes: On the move Children learn Saori in school

I have been teaching children Fiber, and other arts, for decades.
A degree in FINE ARTS and being being certified in k-12 teaching art gives me a different approach to art than regular class room teachers have.This is a time to let go. No grades or expectations.
I am a authorized, and certified Saori weaving Studio as well.
This fall Saori Santa Cruz is on the move again ...this time I am off to public schools.

Packing the bobbin racks and boat shuttles with the wound bobbins along with yarns took a few days to organize.
my husband lee loaded up the SAORI looms that I put in LOOM BAGS and off we went to the school situated right off the georgeous pacific California coast

a lovely ride along the coast.

no not surfboards but Saori Looms safely protected in bags… plus Boxes of supplies…

Two of the class room teachers helped after I gave them a quickie saori crash course.

then they started to get excited right along with the children.They were a tremendous asset.

Because there were more children than looms I planned for 2 different types of weaving.
tapestry circle looms and Saori looms

The 2nd through 6th graders came in shifts and wove on the loom pod I had set up for them
while at adjacent tables the rest wove on differnt hand held looms.

Of course they loved weaving on the saori looms, they picked it up almost instantaneously
SAORI LOOMS are so well designed it is a joy to teach with them as well as weave on them. Children as young as four can weave on the Saori piccolo model

Here is one of the art teachers Barkley helping, he was in charge of the scissors he was called by the children " Edward scissors man" I wonder if they really every heard of that moveie or even know Jonny Dep in any role other than that of the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow?

The students, even some with disabilities, and spacial manipulative issues , all did amazing!

I do not know who had more fun, the students, the teachers or me?

The magic wand for this class was repalced by the magic shuttles.

Peace at the loom

peaceful weaving

Jill Nickolene Sanders

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Teaching Saori Weaving at the studio this past week ….

Meet Sally and Tina ….. sisters ….they have traveled to California from Wisconson for a Vacation and to visit family and scheduled two days of Saori weaving at my studio in Santa Cruz mountains .

Tina has lovely handspun yarns she brought with her so I wound a warp for a scarf . here she is trying out the CROSS HOLDER and THREADING HOLDER on a WX60 loom .