Salt Spring Weaving - Past Events

• "Saori Looms" article for Fibre Focus (a magazine published by the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners guild), Summer 2008 Issue
• Victoria Fibre Festival and Knit Out - Saori Workshop, Vendor and Sponsor
• Saori weaving at the Medieval Fair at Phoenix School, Salt Spring Island, BC
• Kahta for Peace - "One thread, One world, One peace" sent to Sendai, Japan for Saori Peace Weaving 2008
• Earth Banner sent to Sendai, Japan for Saori Peace Weave 2008
• International Education - weaving with students from Kobe, Japan - an afternoon workshop
• Earth Banner weaving at Ruckle Park Day, May 4, 2008, Salt Spring Island, BC
• Earth Banner weaving at Earth Day event, Salt Spring Island, BC
• Workshop at GIFTS (Gulf Islands Families Together Society) - March 18, 2008
• Providence Farm Workshops - March 10 & 12, 2008
• 'Weaving a Tapestry of Faith' in Chemainus, BC, February 11-15, 2008
• Endless Possibilities with Saori Weaving
  February 9, 2008 at Dreamspin, Lake Cowichan, BC
• Saori Garment Design, January 31, 2008
  Salt Spring Weavers and Spinners Guild
• Winterfest & Weaving for Climate Change Action Day - at Salt Spring Centre School - December 8, 2007
• Engaging Disability - "Weaving without Boundaries - Workshop at the University of Victoria's Disability Institute, November 9, 2007
• Speaker at the Salt Spring Rotary Club on Peace Weaving and Saori Peace Weave 2007 for Hiroshima, Japan, November 7, 2007
• Peace Weaving with PeaceWorks! at the Salt Spring Centre School on October 24, 2007, the United Nations Birthday
• Program at the Salt Spring Weavers Guild on Saori weaving and Texture, October 18, 2007
• Presentation at the Deep Cove Weavers Guild on Saori weaving and Peace Weaving, September 25, 2007
• Peace Weaving at the Salt Spring Fall Fair, September 15 & 16, 2007 and on International Peace Day, and September 21, 2007
• Peace Banner presented to Somali communities at memorial service for HornAfrik's slain journalists.
• Peace Weaving at Gibson's Landing as part of the Gibson's Landing Fibre Festival, August 17-18, 2007
• Saori Weaving Workshop at Gibson's Landing Fibre Festival - "Endless Possibilties with Saori Weaving", August 15-16, 2007
• Saori weavings in a juried show at the Gibson’s Landing Fibre Festival, August 15-18, 2007
• Saori Weaving Hands-on Demo at the Salt Spring Fibre Festival, July 21, 22, 2007
• Saori Tour of Japan hosted by Mihoko Wakabayashi of Saori Worcester, June 7-21, 2007
• Saori Peace Weave 2007 for Hiroshima, Japan, May 2007 on Salt Spring Island with 150 people participating
• Article for Fibre Focus (a magazine published by the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners guild) on “Weaving for Peace”, December 2006 Issue
• Saori Weaving at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre in Vancouver, BC, November 2006
• Attended the Saori Canada-USA conference in Worcester, MA in July 2006
• Saori Peace Weaving at the World Peace Forum in Vancouver, BC, June 2006

Eiji Jo and Terri at Kim Cowley-Adam's home in Nanaimo

"People talk about reinventing themselves, but I think it's not a matter of reinventing, it's a matter of going back to who you really are and finding other ways of expressing that."

- Kim Campbell

When I first took a weaving class in 1984, I knew that this was the thread that tied things together. After taking courses, workshops and Master Weaver classes, I completed many types of weaving for guild sales and by commission.

In the fall of 2005, I met a Saori weaver and rediscovered weaving in a new way. Saori weaving encourages expression of self, a freedom of weaving, of colour, texture and fibre that felt like a homecoming.

I took a Saori weaving course with Kim Cowley-Adam of Nanaimo and then went to the first Canada- USA SAORI conference in Worcester, MA. I continued my study there with Mihoko Wakabayashi, a member of the SAORI Leader's Committee. My weaving studio is now a SAORI Worcester Partnership Site.

In June of 2007, I went on a trip to Japan to take a SAORI Peace Banner to Hiroshima. I also wanted to explore the roots of SAORI weaving where it started - in Japan. We met Eiji Jo, Kenzo Jo and other family members as well as many other people involved in teaching SAORI weaving. We had a workshop with Kenzo Jo in which he shared many wonderful ideas. It was an amazing trip!

Saori weaving is a way to self, to heart and to healing. There are no mistakes, only the joy of creation.

Workshops and classes are now offered in my quiet studio in the woods on Salt Spring Island, BC Canada. I also now distribute SAORI Looms in Canada. Please contact me for more information.

Temple in Kyoto, Japan

2006 US/Canada SAORI Conference in Worcester
Photo courtesty of SAORI Worcester

Akiko Jo, Terri & Kim Cowley-Adam at Terri's Salt Spring Studio