| Handwoven tallit |
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| Jewish prayer shawl |
Cherri Hankins is a custom fiber artist in Virginia. In addition to weaving, spinning, and felting luxurious items for
you, or from your own fiber.
Cherri teaches.
If you are interested in learning to weave, spin, felt,sew, embroider, or dye fiber, please click on the classes button to
the left.
Cherri has been fortunate enough to consolidate the busy studios into one wonderful studio in the far west end of Richmond.
You can view a video of this beautiful studio at youtube. Cherri's username is "maidensweaver".
Currently, there are weaving and spinning classes on Tuesday mornings, and Wednesday evenings. Not everyone lives close enough
to come to classes weekly, so Cherri offers teaching intensives. These are classes that pack a great deal of information and
hands on learning into brief spans of time. For instance, there are weekend workshops, as well as weeklong classes in which
students can get as much as 12 hours of work in a single day.
Not all intensives have to be THAT intense. Some of that time is open studio time, which can be used to visit and enjoy our
lovely city and it's suburbs.
| Rug: wet-felted by hand |
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| student work |
Cherri's weaving specialty is custom weaving tallitot. That's a plural for tallit, which is a jewish prayer shawl. Some
of her hand-woven tallitot are woven from commercial yarns, and some are both hand-spun and hand-woven. For more
information on the tallitot, please click the tallit button in the sidebar.
Some of the work on this page, is
student work. It is here to provide an example of the quality of instruction you can expect from Cherri. Occassionally, She
will be able to accomodate students who want to put together their own class, so don't be shy, e-mail me. maidensweaver@earthlink.net
You
can view my blog at:
www.rivercityweaves.wordpress.com
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