Exploring Bojagi - with Dorothy Hayes
Cost: $ 50
Bojagi is a Korean piecing technique that has been used for centuries to make beautiful, practical, reversible cloth items. The traditional use for bojagi is as a wrapping cloth, but they are also uniquely beautiful when hung in a window or used as a tablecloth. Bojagi is pieced and finished, both front and back, as a single layer of cloth, with no quilting or binding needed, so Bojagi projects are finished more quickly than quilted items.
Bojagi can be sewn either with a sewing machine (tongsol) or by hand (ssamsol). This class will utilize the machine technique, but the ssamsol hand method will also be introduced, and students will have an opportunity to try it, as well.
Students may choose to sew the class project (see sample photo), which is a cloth that finishes at approximately 32” square. Alternatively, confident students may create their own improv piece, making up a design as they go along. This is meant to be a techniques class, and creativity is welcome!