Cordage Making Workshop w/ Angela Eastman 5/29/26
Cordage Making Workshop
Date: Friday - May 29, 2026
Time: 6PM-8PM
Location: FF - 612 W South Street in Raleigh, NC
Cost: $65
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Learn to create strong and beautiful cord from fibers growing in your backyard. We will cover processing the bast fibers or whole leaves of many plants (such as daffodil, iris, daylily, crocosmia and the inner barks of many vines such as kudzu, wisteria and more) to create cordage, an ancient craft practiced around the world.
Light snacks and tea will be served.
Tickets are non-refundable.
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Angela Eastman is a mixed-media artist behind Flag Mountain Studio based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. She has a background in sculpture and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and completed the Core Fellowship program at Penland School of Crafts in 2014. She now works primarily as a basket weaver and teacher of weaving, blacksmithing, and ceramics, in addition to designing jewelry. She also works sculpturally with metal, fibers, and found objects to create sculptures and installations that explore the intersections of industrial and natural material cultures.
For the last several years, she has been weaving baskets with foraged material, often invasive vines such as kudzu, wisteria, and honeysuckle. Angela is also cultivating fifteen different varieties of basket willow plants on her land in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
"At the heart of all of my work is a delight in materiality and a conviction that sharing the process of craft creates meaningful connections to histories of labor and place. Weaving is an underpinning of all the work that I do, whether it is making baskets and other crafts or teaching, and I love the long history of connection to place that accompanies the craft of weaving."