IN-STORE SHOPPING HOURS
Saturdays, 11am - 3pm
Masks are recommended.
CURBSIDE PICKUP HOURS
Place an order via our online store 7 days a week 24 hours a day!
Receive an email when your order is ready.
Pickup your order by visiting the store Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 3-pm.
CLOSED: Sundays and Mondays
Our natural dyeing studio and the products we create and dye are the root of our business. And we are busy tending the dye pots! To receive the fastest response, please email us: info(at)averbforkeepingwarm(dot)com
Thank you!
Kristine, Adrienne, and Team Verb
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Spinning, dyeing, felting, knitting, weaving, and sewing are verbs to describe how communities have created cloth, garments, and other fiber-based goods. Such acts embody connection and creativity. And such objects provide shelter and keep us warm. A Verb for Keeping Warm honors these traditions by offering a wide range of raw materials to create textiles, such as fiber, yarn, and fabric, along with classes to cultivate the skill and practice of creating your own clothing and home goods.
Located at 6328 San Pablo Ave, our Oakland brick-and-mortar houses a store, an indoor and outdoor classroom, an indoor and outdoor natural dyeing studio, where we produce our own line of naturally dyed yarn and fabric, and a natural dyeing garden. The garden is used to educate local school children, customers, and aspiring dye gardeners about which types of plants make dye. At Verb, you can find batches of yarn dyed with these plants.
Kristine and Adrienne co-own A Verb for Keeping Warm. Kristine loves everything from spinning her own yarn to sewing her own clothing. And Adrienne loves gardening, working in the dye studio, and making the important connection between nature and textiles. The shop reflects this love, and is divided into three sections: yarn, fabric, and natural dyeing. At Verb, you have the possibility to choose your fabric for a new dress, and your yarn, for the accompanying cardigan. And if you feel so inclined to naturally-dye the materials you choose! We carry fiber, yarn, fabric, and natural dyes considered the best in the industry and have especially warm feelings towards fiber, yarn, fabric and dyes made from US grown materials.
Our indoor classroom is used for teaching knitting, spinning, sewing, quilting and weaving. Our outdoor classroom, nestled within Verb's natural dye garden, is where we teach natural dyeing. You can take classes from teachers around the world who teach a wide variety of textile centered skills. Making together by hand, creates a space to get to know others interested in textiles, and to be inspired by one another. By taking classes at Verb, you will have a solid foundation of technique, in combination with inspiration, so you can create your own body of work and develop your own textile-focused practice.
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Please peruse our online store to get a sense of what we carry in our brick and mortar.
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Location
6328 San Pablo Avenue x Alcatraz Avenue
Oakland, CA 94608
510.595.VERB (8372)
info@averbforkeepingwarm.com
Directions
By Bike:We are in a bike friendly neighborhood with ample bike parking!
By Car:
We are located on the East side of San Pablo at the corner of Alcatraz.
If you are driving from I-80, take the Ashby Avenue exit, continue straight until you reach San Pablo, make a right at the light. Our building is on the left hand side just past Alcatraz Avenue. FREE public parking on San Pablo and surrounding streets.
By Bus:
We are on a main street with plenty of bus traffic. Take either the northbound or southbound AC Transit Line 72, 72M, or 72R.
If you are traveling from SF you can take the F bus (transbay Terminal) towards Berkeley and transfer at 40th street and San Pablo to the 72R North bound to Alcatraz stop. For more info visit AC Transit.
By Emery Go Round:
Catch the Emery Go Round at the Mac Arthur BART stop. Use the "Hollis" line, stop at Hollis at 64th when going Northbound. Walk east on 64th until you get to San Pablo Avenue (about five blocks). This is a FREE Shuttle.
By BART:
The closest BART station is Ashby BART. Take Bus Line 49 from Ashby BART to the corner of San Pablo and Ashby. Walk South on San Pablo Avenue (approx 8 minutes). For more info visit BART.
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