Fiber Arts with Angela
Making with our hands changes the pace.
I work with weaving, basketry, macramé, and natural dyeing, creating pieces and gatherings centered around the tactile pleasure of making.
Fiber asks us to slow down and work in relationship with the material. There is rhythm in the repetition—thread passing over thread, the pull of a knot, fiber being coiled and shaped, color drawn from the natural world. The hands become occupied, attention settles, and conversation has room to unfold.
Weaving · Basketry · Macramé · Natural Dyeing
Fiber workshops can be created for private groups, gatherings, celebrations, and special events.
Each experience is designed around the group and setting, with materials, tools, and instruction provided. Gatherings can range from a few quiet hours of making together to a longer exploration of a particular technique or project.
Bring me to your retreat.
Art offers a different kind of space within a retreat.
I create fiber arts workshops that invite guests away from the usual rhythm of the day and into the pleasure of working with their hands. We gather around a table surrounded by beautiful natural fibers and materials, learn a process, talk, experiment, and watch something slowly take form.
Workshops can be designed as a stand-alone creative experience or thoughtfully woven into the larger themes and rhythm of your retreat. I bring the concept, materials, essential tools, and instruction, with projects adapted to your group, location, and available time.
Fiber arts carry an elemental connection to the natural world. Long before making became something we did for leisure, we gathered, twisted, knotted, wove, coiled, and dyed the materials growing around us. Working with fiber brings us back into that relationship—to texture and color, to the intelligence of our hands, and to the simple experience of making something from the materials of the earth. Within a retreat, this becomes more than a creative interlude. It offers another way of arriving in a place: through touch, attention, material, and the act of making.
A workshop might become a slow afternoon between more structured parts of a retreat, a creative morning around a long table, or an experience shaped specifically around the place itself. Natural materials, local surroundings, season, and the character of the gathering can all inform what we make.
I work with retreat leaders, hosts, hotels, villas, and concierge teams to create experiences for the people they are bringing together or welcoming into a place. Workshops can be arranged for established retreats as well as private groups, celebrations, family gatherings, and guests looking for a meaningful creative experience during their stay.
I arrive with the materials, essential tools, and a thoughtfully designed project ready for your group, allowing you to offer something beautiful and memorable without having to organize the details yourself.
Available for retreats and private experiences in Costa Rica and internationally.