Salt Spring Weaving - Past Events

• Terri & Yukie Suzaki presenting at the Canadian Art Therapy Association Conference
• Featured in a new book "1000 Artisan Textiles"
• Waterfall weaving in exhibits in New York City
• Monthly classes at Knotty by Nature in Victoria, BC
• "Shades of Arbutus - Branching Out" weaving for Eye for Colour Exhbition at ArtSpring on Salt Spring Island, BC. Partnered with elehna de sousa from the Painter's guild
• Saori weaving retreats (and photography retreats) featured in Change Magazine.
• "Peace Weave" at Circles of Peace on Salt Spring Island - event organized by Peace Works!
• "Community Peace Banner" created at the Gibson's Landing Fibre Festival
• "Saori Looms" article for Fibre Focus (a magazine published by the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners guild), Summer 2008 Issue
• Attended the North American Saori Conference held in Chaska, MN
• 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

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.

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, classes & retreats 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

"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