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BIO: Carol Lane-Saber is a registered nurse, lawyer, and
retired criminal court judge (Houston) who has worked with textiles since childhood.
In her teens she was a 4-H Club sewing champion. Her career as a professional
fiber artist began when she founded "Carol Lane & Company", a high fashion
wholesale clothing line featuring wearable art that was sold to stores at the Dallas, Los
Angeles and New York markets. She is an eight time Fairfield Fashion Show designer
and has participated in numerous other invitational exhibitions throughout the United
States. In 1985 she went to Japan to study Japanese textile dyeing and painting.
There she met her husband, Jerry Saber and lived in that country for several years,
studying and collecting all forms of Japanese textiles. Now, she and Jerry have a
"retirement" business, selling Japanese textiles and artifacts, leading tours to
Japan and teaching textile arts to others.
LECTURE: Japanese Textiles in Western Garments and Quilts: Explore the
possibilities of enhancing your garments and quilts with Japanese textiles. Using
silk, cottons, brocades, ikats (kasuri) and tie-dyed (shibori) materials, Carol has
fashioned inspiring items of clothing, quilts, and wall hangings that will spur your
creative imagination. You will be able to handle the fabrics shown to see for
yourself how lovely they are and how easily they can be transformed into items for Western
use.
LECTURE: History and Development of Japanese Textiles: Understanding
Japanese textiles and their unique characteristics adds to the enjoyment of incorporating
these beautiful fabrics in your designs. Carol will explain the techniques used to
create these beautiful textiles from Japan and will display rare textiles from her museum
quality collection. This is your opportunity to have a "hands on"
experience with fabrics that are becoming difficult to find or textile techniques that are
no more.
LECTURE: Embellish, Embellish, Embellish! Using her many Fairfield
Fashion Show garments plus other competition creations, Carol will guide you through the
process of embellishing your own clothing and quilts, describing how each type of
embellishment was achieved. Embroidery, beading, dyeing, couching, off-loom weaving,
recycling and fabric origami are just some of the techniques that will be discussed.
LECTURE AND/OR WORKSHOP: Fabric Origami, the art of manipulating fabric into
the third dimension. The art of folding paper into various shapes has been perfected
in Japan over a period of 400 years. Gradually the art form has spread around the
world. Now, textile artists are beginning to utilize these techniques with folded
cloth.
Carol has prepared a booklet to aid in making some of these origami shapes that she
has found are easily applied to quilts and wall hangings. This booklet will be
available ($5.00) for purchase so that you can have a guide to aid you in creating
the shapes that will be shown. Carol will also present many other three dimensional
fabric techniques and display her three dimensional quilts. Samples follow:
WORKSHOP: Shibori (tie-dyeing) Techniques: The Japanese art of folding,
twisting, gathering, knotting and crimping fabric prior to dyeing it has long fascinated
Western textile artists. These techniques will be shared and you will experiment in
creating these beautiful fabrics yourself. Carol will supply the silk for dyeing,
the dyes and all equipment needed to do the shibori techniques. A booklet on the shibori
techniques will also be provided. Kit fee: $25.00 Samples follow:
WORKSHOP: Fabric Origami and Shibori : Note: this is a combinaion of the two
above-listed workshops. Morning is devoted to shibori and afternoon to origami.
WORKSHOP: Nuno Fabric: This is a fabric creation process combining
wool, silk or soy roving with other fabrics, yarns, threads, laces and ribbons to create
your own unique textile art. Some of the fabric creation technique is done with
needles, other techniques are done with wetting, rolling and mashing the fibers to blend
them into new cloth. Samples follow:
WORKSHOP: Fabric Collage and Manipulation:
using fabric with bold designs (mainly floral designs), cutting, pleating, gathering and
other wise manipulating the fabric to either embellish an existing garment or create a new
quilt, garment or wallhanging.
WORKSHOP: Silk Organza Quilts, Wall Hangings and Garments: Try your
hand at layering silk organza to make an airy and beautiful creation. This light,
semi-transparent fabric becomes even more beautiful when layered, dyed, manipulated into
shapes and combined with other fabrics to create a flowing object.from your hands.
Samples follow:
WORKSHOP: Japanese Twill Tape Vest or Wall Hanging: This process allows you to create a patchwork garment or wall piece by butting raw edges of fabric together and uniting them with blending colors of Japanese twill tape to make a unique work of art. Twill tape and Japanese cottons will be provided for this workshop. Kit fee is $45. Samples follow:
Contact is saber@olympus.net