T-Shirt to Coiled Basket
Thursday April 18
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Instructor: Lora Bertolo
Material Fee: $5
Students: 8
In this workshop, Lora will guide you through converting a t-shirt to a coiled basket. You will learn to cut a t-shirt to yarn with minimal waste and no seams. Then Lora will teach you how to use the yarn to make a coiled basket. Along the way Lora will share tips on how to achieve the shape you desire and yarns that are suitable to coil with. No previous experience needed. Students are asked to bring a t- shirt to work on. It can have small holes.
Lora Bertolo was raised in Toronto with her Italian immigrant parents. Her interests in textiles started as a child, watching her mom sew. She completed the Fashion Design degree at Toronto Metropolitan University. With years of experience ranging from custom design bridal gowns to producing a knitwear collection, it was in 2020 when completing a Basket Coiling course with Ruth Woods that she found her calling within the textile industry. Coiling supports her values of sustainability and ethical fashion and satisfies her needs as a designer, maker and human. Lora makes functional, fashionable one of a kind bags and baskets using only repurposed materials. She believes the process is therapeutic and the more people that repurpose textiles through coiling the better it is for everyone.