Fiber Arts as Book Arts: Fiber Book Forms - Fall 2025

Fiber Arts as Book Arts: Fiber Book Forms - Fall 2025Course Code: 25FTX102V This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Thursday, November 13th, from 6: 30PM to 8: 30PM ET. Thursday, November 13th, 6: 30PM to 8: 30PM ET This workshop is the final installment in a four part series which also covers natural dyeing, kitchen printing. and embroidery. Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on November 6th, at 11: 59 pm Eastern Time. About the Workshop: This virtual workshop is taught by CBA

Course Code: 25FTX102V

This virtual workshop takes place on Zoom on Thursday, November 13th, from 6:30PM to 8:30PM ET.

• Thursday, November 13th, 6:30PM to 8:30PM ET

This workshop is the final installment in a four part series which also covers natural dyeing, kitchen printing. and embroidery.

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on November 6th, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

About the Workshop:

This virtual workshop is taught by CBA instructor Iviva Olenick.

Participants in this workshop will learn how to use textile-specific materials to make several types of book covers and structures with fabric and paper. After watching the instructor demonstrate how to use lightweight and heavyweight fusible stabilizers, how to embroider on the top layer of paper or fabric only covering the interfacing, and how to add inside pages, participants will make sample book covers with heavyweight interfacing, trying all of the demonstrated techniques. The instructor will also demonstrate how to embroider on book pages while making sure that both front and back of pages are legible. Participants will practice this, making aesthetic choices as they stitch. Finally, participants will experiment with applying skills and materials from the three previous sessions, including incorporating naturally dyed fabrics from session 1, plant-printed and stamped paper and fabric from session 2, and embroidered paper and fabric from session 3.

The three previous classes are not required but recommended.

Required Materials:

• Plain cotton muslin fabric
• Embroidery needles &  thread
• Embroidery hoop
• Scissors
• Fusible interfacing
• Quilt batting 
• Iron
• Thimble (optional)

About the Instructor

Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist developing textiles from seed to fiber and dye and using textiles as texts. Her work has been exhibited all over the United States, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Design Atlanta; the Hunterdon Museum, NJ; Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, NYC; the Center for Book Arts, NYC; the Old Stone House, Brooklyn; Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn.

Olenick is a faculty member of SVA’s MFA Art Practice program where she teaches Fibers. In addition, she gives artist talks and designs intensive textile-based workshops for museums and universities.

All images courtesy of the instructor.