At its heart, asil is a small textile studio.
Lisa Sylvestre, under asil, runs a textile + a dye studio, a gallery and a shop.
asil offers:
a wide variety of hand stitch classes, natural dye classes and workshops, and bookbinding classes
quiltmaking
a weekly community sewing circle, and
a sometimes gallery and pop-up shop which brings together talented local artists
Our goals are simple: to tread lightly, to celebrate and honour community, to create and share beauty. The path to these goals can be slow but we fully embrace making things well that will stand the tests of wear and time.
Where ever possible, we seek to re-use materials. That can look like unraveling old sweaters to create new knitwear, hunting for fabrics in re-sale shops, and learning new mending techniques for ourselves and to pass on through our classes.
Our dye studio is completely plant based. We grow dye plants in our gardens, we forage locally and sometimes we purchase things that just don’t grow here but we are always striving for the most environmentally
Lisa lives and works in Windsor/Detroit. Her art practice is informed by an academic background in the social sciences, training both in tailoring and in photography, by the industrial landscape of Windsor Detroit and most fundamentally by the natural world. Her primary focus is textiles, particularly quilt making.
Do you want to talk about a custom quilt idea? Contact us about transforming the clothes of a loved one into a quilt. All contact information can be found under the Contact tab.
At its heart, asil is a small textile studio.
Lisa Sylvestre, under asil, runs a textile + a dye studio, a gallery and a shop.
asil offers:
a wide variety of hand stitch classes, natural dye classes and workshops, and bookbinding classes
quiltmaking
a weekly community sewing circle, and
a sometimes gallery and pop-up shop which brings together talented local artists
Our goals are simple: to tread lightly, to honour community, to create and share beauty. The path to these goals can be slow but we fully embrace making things well that will stand the test of wear and time.
Where ever possible, we seek to re-use materials. That can look like unraveling old sweaters to create new knitwear, hunting for fabrics in re-sale shops, and learning new mending techniques for ourselves and to pass on through our classes.
Our dye studio is completely plant based. We grow dye plants in our gardens, we forage locally and sometimes we purchase things that just don’t grow here but we are always striving for the most environmentally
Lisa Sylvestre lives and works in Windsor/Detroit. Her art practice is informed by an academic background in the social sciences, training both in tailoring and in photography, by the industrial landscape of Windsor Detroit and most fundamentally by the natural world. Her primary focus is textiles, particularly quilt making.
Do you want to talk about a custom quilt idea? Contact us about transforming the clothes of a loved one into a quilt. All contact information can be found under the Contact tab.