Mary has a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and a Certificate in Clay and Textiles (Capilano University). She was a weaving instructor in Fashion Design at Kwantlen College (1989-1991) and University-College of the Fraser Valley (1991-2000).
Carol James has been playing with strings for a long time; she learned to embroider and to crochet before she entered kindergarten. Since the 1980s she has been exploring a wide, flat, braiding technique known in North America as fingerweaving.
This class has been cancelled until further notice Sprang is an ancient textile method, dating as far back as the Bronze Age in Scandinavia. We have evidence of this technique from the ancient Persians, Greece, Rome, and Egypt.
