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.

Jodi Green is a printmaker, bookbinder, and arts educator living and working in the Walkerville neighbourhood of Windsor, On. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking in 2008 at the University of Georgia, and from 2015 to 2020 operated Windsor's only public access printmaking studio. Levigator Press journals and sketchbooks are bound entirely by hand using traditional tools and methods. They feature a blend of reclaimed and new materials with a focus on sustainable practices and minimizing waste. Cover papers are printed by hand or recycled from fine art prints made in our studio. @levigatorpress

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.