Wednesday
WW-101 Simple Braids and Cords Shirley Berlin
This is a dabbling day. Learn about simple cords and braids and make samples using a variety of yarns. We will twiddle and ruche using threaders and tethers. Meet a lucet, and make constructed braids on cards that will fit in your pocket. Dabbling is fun but you will take home instruction sheets and book lists that will hopefully inspire you to take some of the skills further. The chance to have hands-on experience will let you know which techniques don’t click for you and which may well occupy you for a lifetime.
Materials fee: $7.50 includes yarns and handouts
Equipment: scissors
WW-102 Northwest Treasure Basket Donna Crispin
Western red cedar bark and fabulously dyed strings will be plaited and twined to form a small (1.5"x 2"x 1/4") basketry necklace. You will learn traditional cordage making techniques, plus some preparation of the cedar.
Level: Beginner
Materials fee: $20 for prepared cedar, strings
WW-103 Introduction to Ply-;Splitting Linda Hendrickson
Ply-;splitting is slow, meditative, and completely portable. The instructor will begin with a little history of the traditional ply-;split goat-;hair girths and camel necklaces made by men of the Indian desert. Then she will discuss contemporary ply-;splitting, and show some of her own baskets, hats, bags, jewelry, and ornaments. She will also demonstrate cordmaking, using a drill with a single hook, and a 4-;hook twister. Using prepared cords and a gripfid or latch hook, make a spiral ornament and a braid on a key ring in a structure called SCOT (single-;course oblique twining),
Level: Beginner
Materials fee: $22.50 includes a copy of Great SCOT!, a gripfid (specialized tool for ply-;splitting), and cord kits for the ornament and braid.
WW-104 Painted Yarn Workshop Sara Lamb
Learn the techniques of painting with dyes directly on yarns. With this simple method, you can obtain reliable and repeatable colors. Participants will bring their own yarns or fibers to paint in class. This process is suitable for any fiber application including warp painting, skein painting for knitting, or fiber painting. This workshop will concentrate on dyes and the process for cellulose fibers (cotton, silk and rayon).
Level: Beginner
Materials Fee: $25.00
WW-105 Appalachian Buttocks Basket (egg basket) Carol Lang
Learn to weave an Appalachian Rib-;Style Buttocks or Melon Basket, also known as an Egg Basket. The skills necessary to weave a basic rib-;style basket will be presented. Handle and rim will be joined using a 4-;point lashing technique. All the necessary materials, such as locally available natural materials as well as commercially processed ones will be supplied. You may use processed and natural materials to weave the sides in a variety of earth-;tone colors and textures. Jutes and yarns in various colors will be available to add a touch of color to your basket. Wear old clothes and bring a towel and pail to soak materials.
Materials Fee: To be determined.
WW-106 Working with Silk Priscilla Lowry
Learn to expand your horizons and demystify working with silk! This workshop is for all textile workers, weavers, embroiderers, patchworkers, braid, felt and paper makers who would love to be able to make their own silk threads of different styles and thickness, but who have no intention of learning to spin. We start by making cocoons from Mawata caps, and then go on to make fancy yarns from other silk fibers. It is a wonderful opportunity to enhance and individualize your creative work. Also included will be discussions on identification, care, tests and the selection of different silks for different end purposes.
Materials fee: $32.50
WW-107 Drum Carding and Multicolored Batts Deb Menz
Learn to create predictable multicolored batts for unique handspun yarns. The day starts with a drum carding 101 discussion, followed by a demonstration of the different techniques used to create repeatable batts for bright and clear multi-;colored yarns. The rest of the day is devoted to hands-on. There will be time to complete preparation for several different skeins of yarn.
Level: Anyone who can spin
Materials fee: $15
Equipment: Students should bring a drum carder and wheel or spindle.
WW-108 Beyond Beginning Tapestry Kathe Todd-Hooker
Students are taught more sophisticated joins and interlocks, introduced to hachures and hatching, geometric shapes, the use of soumack, weft splitting, pick and pick techniques, cartoon design and use. The students can produce a sampler of the various techniques and be given supporting handouts of the techniques attempted and discussed in class. Slide presentations will introduce new techniques and be used to give a historical and cultural overview of tapestry.
Level: Advanced
Materials fee: $10 (plus $15 for loom if needed)
Equipment: Directions for building a small portable loom are supplied prior to class along with warp and weft samples.
WW-109 Drop Spindle or Spindling Margaret Tyler
"Spindling" -; spinning with a spindle rather than wheel -; is a great low-;tech way to experience the many charms of creating your own special handspun yarn. This course will provide an introduction to basic spinning techniques, a sampling of the many fibers available to modern spinners and the hands-;on experience needed to start making wonderful yarns for weaving, knitting, crocheting, etc. Bring along a few beads, bells, and treasures to decorate your yarn to make a bracelet-;style wrist distaff to hold your fibers while you spin.
Level: Beginner
Materials fee: $25 for a lightweight beginner spindle and assortment of fibers, sample yarn card, basic instructions handout, and resource list.
Thursday
WT-110 More Braids and Cords Shirley Berlin
You know some simple braids and cords. You may have twiddled and ruched and worked on cards and lucets. But there are still many more possibilities: Knotting fancy half-;hitches, a flat, decorative knotted 1" wide cord Norwegian half-;hitched fat cord, Lappish two-;tablet weaving (can have a fringe), two-person loop manipulated braids (can have a fringe), and flat decorative knots to make with cords.
Material fee: $5 includes yarns and handouts
Equipment: scissors
WT-111 Wild Potato Basket Donna Crispin
Using dyed reed and willow, participants will make a traditional ribbed basket with built in handles. We will incorporate a variety of garden leaves and sea grass into the weaving.
Level: Beginner
Materials fee: $25 for willow, sea grass, and other natural fibers
WT-112 Charkha 101 Eileen Hallman
Learn to spin cotton the easy way! Learn how to tune and maintain the charkha, how to determine the ratio, and how to spin to specification. We will also cover cotton types and properties. Learning objectives are understanding the charka and yarn terminology, learning long draw, and learning to spin cotton easily.
Level: Beginner; no spinning experience necessary
Materials fee: $10.00 for notebook and fiber samples
Equipment: The instructor will provide charkhas for students who do not have them. Please indicate need at the bottom of your registration page.
WT-113 Hen Basket Carol Lang
Using reed and natural materials found in southern California, as well as yarns or jutes that can add a touch of color, we will construct a "hen" basket. It is a rib-;style basket, which was originally designed to carry a broody hen to market, and is remarkably strong and can be made in a variety of sizes.
Materials Fee: To be determined.
WT-114 Multi-Colors with Combs or Hackles Deb Menz
Learn to create color blended and combed multicolored fiber preparations on hand held combs and hackles. The talk begins with differences in different combs and demonstrates how to use hand held combs and proceeds to thorough color blending on combs. There will be a demonstration on using the hackle for color placement and how to pull the fibers off of the hackle. The rest of the day will be hands-on creating fiber preparations shown in the demonstrations.
Materials fee: $15
Level: Anyone who can spin
Equipment: Hand-held combs and a hackle if you have one. A spindle or wheel would be great.
Friday
WF-120 Ikat on the Inkle Loom Shirley Berlin
The serious study of ikat shows the subject to be a complex and absorbing one. This workshop isn't about that. We're going to make a design-;as-;you-;go ikat band in a few hours, using microwave dyeing. The possibilities are endless but this "just get on with it" approach will get you started. Fast workers will make an inkle ikat belt during the class. You must, must, must know how to warp the loom you bring. The loom must, must, must have heddles that fit.
Level: Students must know how to warp the inkle loom that they bring to class
Materials fee: $5 includes dyes, yarns, and handout
Equipment: inkle loom and knowledge of how to use it with approximately 30 heddles that fit.
WF-121 Micmac Triangular Wall Pocket Donna Crispin
Participants will weave ash strips into a triangular Pocket, thought to have originated with the Micmacs. If you are new to ash, and making curls, this is a great start!
Level: Beginner
Materials fee: $28 for ash splints and cane
WF-122 Fiber Collage Workshop Jan Friedman
We will combine small pieces of handwoven fabric (treasured or not-;so-;treasured samples) and, through a variety of surface design techniques incorporating found objects, beads, handmade Japanese papers, dyed fabrics, etc., we will produce a work of art that reveals something about ourselves and our desires. If something comes off the loom and isn't the dazzling woven item you envisioned, there are numerous ways to embellish that will bring it to its full glory. If that doesn't work, you can cut it up and try again, this time creating a fiber collage. This class encourages experimentation and strives to get your creative juices flowing! Break away from what you usually do with fabric and try something new. There will be numerous examples of the instructor’s work, and slides will be shown.
Level: Beginner through advanced
Materials fee: $8.00 for linen, foam core board, and supplies provided by the instructor, including a wonderful assortment of handwoven fabrics, dyed china silk and silk organza, decorative papers, beads, buttons, glues, acrylics, textile paints, permanent markers, brushes, sponges, and stencils.
WF-123 Charkha 301 Eileen Hallman
This class is for experienced point spinners. We will cover tools and techniques for spinning consistent yarns, techniques for improving speed, and techniques for separating colors in striped slivers. Instructor will supply charkhas for students who do not have them. Learning objectives are learning to spin for consistency, understanding yarn terminology, learning some speed techniques, and learning color separation techniques.
Level: Intermediate
Materials fee: $10.00, for notebook and fiber samples
Equipment: The instructor will provide charkhas for students who do not have them. Please indicate need at the bottom of your registration page.
WF-124 Introduction to Multishaft Design Bonnie Inouye
A loom with 12 or more shafts offers wonderful opportunities for weavers who want to make their own designs, but sometimes the possibilities seem overwhelming. Here's a straight-;forward approach to making original designs using all the shafts on your loom, from the author of the book, Exploring Multishaft Design. Learn about scale of design, develop a personal style and focus, and understand all the parts of the draft. Includes many handwoven examples. No looms required.
Level: Intermediate through advanced.
WF-125 Wine Basket Carol Lang
Create a unique splint basket designed to hold two bottles of wine. It can make an attractive addition to your kitchen or a great gift for your hostess.
Level: Beginner to advanced.
Materials Fee: To be determined.
WF-126 Simple Plying for Color Effects Deb Menz
This workshop is a combination of lecture, demonstration and hands-on. Plying and color choice can be the whole design focus in a yarn. The possibilities are many. The workshop will explore and explain how and why colors do what they do when you ply them together. You will not think about just plying a yarn on itself again, but will think of all the other ways the colors can be combined more excitingly. Color theory, as it applies to plying, will be discussed. The exercises will be limited to 2- and 3-ply yarns. Student can bring a range of multicolored yarns already spun, but not set.
Level : Anyone who can spin.
Materials fee : $ 20 for fibers used for spinning.
Equipment: Students should bring spinning wheel, extra bobbins, lazy kate, ball winder.
WF-127 Doubleweave Pick-up Vicki Tardy
Doubleweave pick-;up is one technique in doubleweave that allows the weaver to weave a design from a graphed picture. The process is somewhat slow, but not as difficult as it may sound in books or magazine articles. We will take it one step at a time, and by the end of the session, you will be weaving a small design of your own choosing.
Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Equipment: Students will need a four-harness loom, dressed according to the directions provided.
WF-128 Ikat & Embellishment: Weft-;Face Design Techniques for Tapestries & Rugs! Mary Zicafoose
This one-;day studio workshop demonstrates the precise and sequential steps required for creating weft-;face Ikat tapestries and rugs. Students learn to measure, stretch, wrap, unwrap, and weave wool Ikat weft. While technically challenging, the results are dramatic and inspire many creative possibilities. This weft-oriented process for rugs is rarely explored.
Materials fee: $10 includes workshop folder and all hands-on materials.
Registrations opens November 1st, 2004
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