Linen Botanicals Workshop with Robert Mahar

Date: Saturday, November 9

Time: 10am-12:30pm

Location: San Francisco County Fair Building, Recreation Room

Workshop Description:
Handcraft everlasting fabric specimens of your favorite fall and winter foliage to decorate your home, adorn a wrapped gift or ornament your holiday table. Join artist Robert Mahar in learning clever construction techniques to craft wired, posable sprigs and branches from a beautiful buffet of linen/cotton textiles, along with felted wool for berries and nuts. Instruction will equip you to fully customize the color, scale and function of your project. Select a fantasy palette or hues truer to nature for clusters of autumn leaves to tie around napkins, a bundle of doorway mistletoe or a small wreath of holly to encircle a candle.

This workshop focuses on the creation of maple and oak leaves, mistletoe, and holly – with templates provided for each of these – however the process can be applied to most any type of foliage. This class is well suited for beginners and no previous experience is necessary. Ages 18+.

Materials:
All materials (a limited selection of high quality linen/cotton blend fabric, twill tape, jute twine, floral wire, adhesive, glue brush, wool felt balls, needle and thread!) along with templates are provided and included in the cost of the class. However, if you have favorite light to mid weight fabrics, and ribbon or twill tape that you’d like to utilize – you are encouraged to bring these items to the workshop. Please plan on bringing a pair of paper scissors and a pair of sharp fabric scissors with you.

About the Instructor:
Robert Mahar is a California-based artist and educator who teaches thoughtfully researched and developed hands-on projects based in historical craft traditions. He’s also a proud contestant alumni, and subsequent associate producer, on NBC’s crafting competition show Making It with Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman. With an education in studio arts and art history, he has worked in a variety of creative fields including 13 years as an appraiser of modern and contemporary art. Learn more about Robert, explore his video tutorial archive and shop his collection of curious embroidery samplers at robert-mahar.com.

GGGP Members: You are entitled to a 20% discount for this event. To secure your discount, please log-in to your account before registering or enter the Member Discount Code in the “Promo Code” field when registering. For the Member Discount Code for this offering, please contact membership@gggp.org.