Weaving Workshop: Textile traditions from Crete, Greece (Beginner/ Intermediate)
September 15-17, 2026 (Three-part Workshop)
$120 | General
$100 | Members
This is a three-part weaving workshop exploring the textile traditions of Crete, Greece. Participants will learn the basics of weaving and working on a frame loom while discovering the symbolism, motifs, techniques, and cultural significance of Cretan weaving.
The workshop offers an introduction to weaving followed by a deepening of techniques, adapted from traditional Cretan floor looms for the frame loom. Through guided practice, participants will learn techniques and weave motifs commonly found in Cretan textiles and across the region of the Eastern Mediterranean, creating a finished piece to take home.
Textiles offer a space to deepen our understanding of the context that gave birth to this material culture, exploring collective memory and celebrating the unseen women whose hands and knowledge have provided for us all. Through materials, textures, shapes, techniques, tools and sounds a sense of place is created.
All materials will be provided. Participants will also receive a gift of naturally dyed wool from Crete, a tactile memory of the island to take home.
Facilitator Bio
Venetia Galanaki is a weaver and natural dyer from Eastern Crete, Greece. Her textile work is deeply rooted in the locality of materials, practices, and ways of understanding and relating to the craft. She researches and practices traditional Cretan weaving, learning from the women of the island and exploring weaving as a carrier of collective memory and identity as well as a mode of relating to the landscape. She facilitates workshops in traditional Cretan weaving and natural dyeing as a way to collectively explore these relationships through practice.
This workshop is offered by the Cultural Department of the Consulate of the Hellenic Republic in Toronto and sponsored by Krinos Foods Canada.
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