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Instructors and Teachers

 

3D Fiber | Beading | Crochet | Dyeing | Embroidery | Felting | Fundamentals
Jewelry | Knitting | Metal Work | Millinery | Paper | Prayer Shawl | Quilting
Silk | Spinning | Surface Design | Wearable Art | Weaving

 

3D Fiber

Julie B. Booth
Description: Wrapped wire animals; adult/child class; doll pin using folded and rolled fabric
Description: Sculpture built around padded wire armature; fabric applique
Location: G Street Fabrics, Rockville and Falls Church locations
Contact: threadborn@aol.com
Website: www.threadborn.com

 

Maria Simonsson
Description: 5 hour workshop-participants make a bird sculpture; 5 hour workshop-participants make a simple fiber vessel
Location: metro DC and beyond
Contact: mariasimonsson@mac.com
Website: www.trocadero.com/simonsson

 

Beading

Carolyn Atwater
Description: Bead weaving
Location: Springfield & Alexandria, VA
Contact: cwovenexp@mindspring.com

 

Joanne Strehle Bast
Description: Off-loom beadwork stitching of jewelry & non-jewelry items
Location: Anywhere
Contact: jbast@jbast.com
Website: www.jbast.com

 

Marilyn Harrington
Description: On and off loom weaving using beads
Contact: weavingivory@verizon.net

 

Crochet

Margaret Fisher
Contact: margaret@fisher-designs.com
Website: www.fisher-designs.com

 

Marilyn Harrington
Description: Beginning to advanced
Contact: weavingivory@verizon.net

 

Nimi Rao
Description: Private or group classes in beginning to advance levels
Location: Rockville or mutually agreeable location
Contact: nimirao@aol.com

 

Susan Shildmyer
Description: Beginning to master level
Location: Northern Virginia, Maryland, eastern panhandle West Virginia
Contact: seshildmyer@aol.com

 

Dyeing

Candace Edgerley
Description: Immersion, low-water immersion
Contact: edgerley@hotmail.com

 

Joyce Keister
Description: Warp painting
Contact: keist@aol.com

 

Shirley T. Waxman
Description: Hand dyed silks
Location: G Street Fabrics
Contact: shirleywaxman@verizon.net
Website: www.shirleywaxman.com

 

Embroidery

Shirley T. Waxman
Description: Exotic ethnic embroidery
Location: G Street Fabrics
Contact: shirleywaxman@verizon.net
Website: www.shirleywaxman.com

 

Felting

Nan Crawford
Description: Beginning felting for children, beginning and advanced felting for adults
Location: Central and northern Virginia
Contact: feltingfrenzy@earthlink.net
Website: www.feltingfrenzy.com

 

Renate Maile-Moskowitz
Description: Felt Art, Felt pedagogy, Felting for Museums, teaching artists, children of all ages and levels
Location: Arlington and Rockville
Contact: renatemm@verizon.net

 

Fundamentals

Renate Maile-Moskowitz
Description: Fiber Fundamentals-starting with all fibers: cotton, wool, silk, flax, milkweed and exploring the properties and potential to create
Location: Arlington and Rockville
Contact: renatemm@verizon.net

 

Jewelry

Marla Rudnick
Description: Woven or knitted metal
Location: Instructor or student home
Contact: marlasrud@netscape.net

 

Knitting

Margaret Fisher
Contact: margaret@fisher-designs.com
Website: www.fisher-designs.com

 

Marilyn Harrington
Description: Beginning to advanced
Contact: weavingivory@verizon.net

 

Debra M. Lee
Description: All levels
Location: Northern Virginia
Contact: debraknits@yahoo.com

 

Nimi Rao
Description: Private or group classes in beginning to advance levels
Location: Rockville or mutually agreeable location
Contact: nimirao@aol.com

 

Marla Rudnick
Description: Metal knitting: learn how to make stunning metal jewelry using fiber technique
Location: Instructor or student home
Contact: marlasrud@netscape.net

 

Susan Shildmyer
Description: Beginning to master level; speciality is colorwork and couture
Location: Northern Virginia, Maryland, eastern panhandle West Virginia
Contact: seshildmyer@aol.com

 

Metal Work

Marla Rudnick
Description: Learn how to make stunning metal jewelry using fiber techniques
Location: Instructor or student home
Contact: marlasrud@netscape.net

 

Millinery

Kate Brown Pernia
Description: Hat making from fabric, straw, felt, wire, etc.
Location: Arlington, Fairfax
Contact: Kate@hatsbykatrinka.com
Website: www.hatsbykatrinka.com

 

Paper

Silvia Souza
Description: "felted" paper
Location: Leesburg, VA
Contact: silviasouza@comcast.net

 

Prayer Shawl

Shirley T. Waxman
Description: Includes embrodery, construction, history
Location: Home, Potomac, MD
Contact: shirleywaxman@verizon.net
Website: www.shirleywaxman.com

 

Quilting

Eileen Doughty
Description: General techniques and landscape design
Location: Vienna, VA
Contact: artist@DoughtyDesigns.com
Website: www.DoughtyDesigns.com

 

Ann Holmes
Description: "No Sewing Until You Quilt It"
Location: class of 20 students at your location
Contact: annholmesstudios@gmail.com
Website: www.annholmesstudios.com

 

Lynda Poole Prioleau
Description: Art quilting, machine, embellishment, fiber structures
Location: Northern VA, DC, and MD
Contact: matlynddsqn@aol.com

 

Silk

Renate Maile-Moskowitz
Description: "Silk, Sericulture and the Art of It," Growing, raising processing and creating art pieces from the understanding of the source and its properties
Location: Arlington and Rockville
Contact: renatemm@verizon.net

 

Spinning

Sally L. Jenkins
Description: Drop spindle or wheel; beginner & intermediate levels; fiber selection and preparation; private or group
Location: DC area
Contact: gldspindle@aol.com

 

Surface Design

Julie B. Booth
Description: Blockprinting on fabric; fabric painting techniques
Location: G Street Fabrics, Rockville and Falls Church locations
Contact: threadborn@aol.com
Website: www.threadborn.com

 

Candace Edgerley
Description: Blockprinting on fabric; fabric painting techniques
Contact: edgerley@hotmail.com

 

Clara Graves
Description: Many techniques for painting on silk, beginner to intermediate
Location: Silver Spring
Contact: claragraves@claragraves.com
Website: www.claragraves.com

 

Susan Shildmyer
Description: Threadwork, trims, beading, embroidery techniques
Location: Northern Virginia, Maryland, eastern panhandle West Virginia
Contact: seshildmyer@aol.com

 

Silvia Souza
Description: Altered T-shirts for kids
Location: Leesburg, VA
Contact: silviasouza@comcast.net

 

Wearable Art

Nimi Rao
Description: Knitting, crochet
Location: Rockville or mutually agreeable location
Contact: nimirao@aol.com

 

Weaving

Carolyn Atwater
Description: Beginning to advanced
Location: Springfield & Alexandria, VA
Contact: cwovenexp@mindspring.com

 

Marilyn Harrington
Description: Beginning weaving to special projects, color gamps, structure studies and triaxial weaving; beginning to advanced
Contact: weavingivory@verizon.net

 

Bonnie Inouye
Description: Design, weaving software, intermediate through very advanced. Workshops, programs, individual tutoring.
Location: Maryland, Metro DC
Contact: bonnieinouye@yahoo.com
Website: www.bonnieinouye.com

 

Joyce Keister
Description: Multishaft
Contact: keist@aol.com

 

Anna Bird Mays
Description: Tapestry; basic classical tapestry techniques
Location: Arlington, VA
Contact: abmays@erols.com

 

 

 

If you teach and would like to be included on this instructor list, please fill out the Instructor List Form and return it to the Membership Chairman at 7921 Deepwell Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817-1927.

 


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