Three Day Workshops
Note: The level will be appropriate for all participants unless otherwise stated. If not specified, there are no required materials fees. Where necessary, a detailed supply list will be sent to students.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
W-301 Understanding Rayon Chenille Su Butler
Journey with Su for three days: a peaceful balance of lecture, discussion and hands-on practice exploring and conquering Rayon Chenille! Explore the history, manufacture, properties, tricks, tips and pitfalls of weaving with Rayon Chenille yarn through lecture, loom preparation and weaving. Using their own loom, each student completes samples to be shared with the class and a Rayon Chenille scarf. Time will be allotted for discussing particular problems students have encountered with Chenille in the past. Learn several different fringing and wet-finishing techniques. Learn the joys and overcome the pitfalls of working with 100% Rayon Chenille while eliminating any fears of working with this fascinating fiber!
Level: Intermediate. Students should know how to read a weaving draft and be very comfortable dressing a loom.
Materials fee: $50.00(includes all warp and weft yarns, and extensive handouts)
Equipment: Students must bring an unthreaded, *fully functioning* table or floor loom with a minimum of 4 shafts, 200 heddles and an 8 dent reed.
W-302 Handwoven Clothing 101 - Make a Simple Unstructured Jacket from your Handwoven Fabric Daryl Lancaster
A terrific class for those who consider themselves "sewing challenged". Too many scarves, throws, and placemats cluttering your house? Weave fabric for clothing! This simple unstructured jacket is custom fit, guaranteed to look great, feel good, and teach you the basics of sewing handwoven fabric. Students can expect to gain confidence in their garment construction skills no matter what level and will learn to work with their handwoven fabric. My goal is to have participants look at sewing as a creative process by itself instead of an annoying necessity in order to achieve a wearable garment. Skills are taught using samples, handouts, storyboards, and demonstrations.
Level: This class is designed to teach the basics of sewing to handweavers.
Materials Fee: $25.00 includes shoulders pads, twill tape, interfacing, pattern paper, and handouts.
W-303 It’s in the Warp: Color and Design in Rep Rosalie Nielson
Learn how the blocks of rep, threaded on four or eight-shafts, can be combined to expand the design possibilities of warp-faced rep weave. Two different colorways, combined with thick and thin weft, form the elements for exploring design in warp-faced rep. Learn how to thread and treadle from a profile draft. Discussions will focus on color, movement of blocks in independent and linked fashion, skeleton tie-ups, different threading systems, and design considerations for 12- and 16-shaft looms. Prior to the workshop, weavers will design a colorway and thread a draft from a list of suggestions in order to weave various patterns in warp-faced rep.
Level: Advanced beginner to advanced level.
Materials fee: $7.50 includes 90 page handout, threads, and cardboard strips for warp color "wraps"
Equipment: Students must bring a pre-warped 4 or 8-shaft loom.
W-304 Multiple Warp Weaving Sheila O’Hara
Now is your chance to get hands on weaving experience in the unique weave structure that Sheila O'Hara has been developing since 1976. Students will learn an 8-harness version of multiple warp weaving on table looms which they will bring pre-warped to the class. Drafting for both 8- and 16-shaft versions will be covered in the class. This reversible, two sided fabric can be used for wall pieces and functional items. The class will be both informative and entertaining. Students will gain an understanding of multiple warp weaving, be inspired to make warps with more than three colors, dare to alter drafts to create new weave structures, and have fun laughing at weaving jokes. Day 1 will include a slide lecture and cover drafting for 16 & 8 shafts. Day 2 we will weave color stripes, squares, circles. Day 3 we will weave original designs and hear a short slide lecture.
Level: Intermediate and Advanced.
Materials fee: $5 fee for handouts
Equipment: Students must bring an 8 shaft table loom – Do not bring a floor loom - pre-warped as per instructions to be sent to students before the class.
W-305 Japanese Braiding on the Marudai and Takadai Mixed Rodrick Owen (details)
The workshop will accommodate braiders who want to expand their knowledge of braiding on either the marudai or takadai. It is about flexibility and as far as possible will be tailored to meet the needs of each student. Those with specific projects in mind may contact the instructor prior to the conference. The Marudai is a versatile braiding stand that can be used to make braids that are round, square, hollow, triangular and flat, even changing from one shape or pattern to anotherwhile they are being made. The braids can be used in many ways for personal adornment as sashes or belts and for jewelry. They make good piping for clothes, upholstery, and cushions and can be used as curtain tiebacks. Embroiderers use them as do book binders for their intricate work. The Takadai is a unique piece of equipment for making braids in plain or twill weave structures. The braids are single or double layered, and can be made in three dimensional or complex pick-up patterns. The Japanese make these flat interlaced braids to be used as obijima for the kimono. The single layer braids are thinner, wider and because they are made on the bias more flexible than the marudai braids. The braids can be made for trim and edge decoration on garments, as ties, and sashes. It is possible to make the braids wide enough to be used as scarves and panels for clothing. Double braids are more durable for belts and guitar straps and the pick-up braids to express your individual patterns. (details)
Equipment: Marudai or takadai. If a student needs to rent equipment please note that at the bottom of your registration form. Please click here for complete information
W-306 Historic Coverlets, American Textile Traditions and Their Makers Sigrid Piroch
Love old coverlets and coverlet patterns? Like to weave a coverlet or early American textile? This is your chance to become acquainted with Americana at its best. Slide view the intriguing story behind some of their makers, weave various structures on looms in traditional and modern ways, use profiles to document them, read century drafts, analyze actual coverlets, reference rare manuscripts, consider finishing and conservation techniques. This is a fun workshop with a lot of grist: pattern documentation, weave identification, fabric analysis, pattern manipulation and draft development including reading old drafts and working with profiles. Students learn to identify patterns and modify them according to their interests or, using these concepts as inspiration, create their own designs on 4-8 shafts (though we're ready for more shafts). You leave armed with a set of textile samples you have woven, which are representative of a wide variety of structures for textiles, including coverlets, over the past several centuries. Each loom represents one historic structure.
Level:Intermediate
Materials fee: $8.50 includes wire-bound Workshop Booklets configured for our conference with color - include all workshop looms, work session sheets, bibs, resources = over 40 pp.
Equipment: Loom warped using instructions sent by the instructor.
W-307 Silk Techniques and Traditions Celia Quinn
Immerse yourself in luxurious silk, as we spin many forms of the fiber from smooth and lustrous top, and the exotic blends with other fibers, to the extremely long caps and hankies, as well as the textured carded silks, and the shortest form, silk noil. Expand cocoons to make squares of silk called Mawata, traditionally used for batting in Japan. Dye silk caps and hankies for different color effects. Make silk paper, also known as fusion. Experience the ancient technique and the wonder of reeling a sheer thread from cocoons. Lectures include fiber properties, sericulture, care of silk, and spider silk.
Level: Intermediate through advanced
Materials Fee: $30
Equipment: Spinning wheel
W-308 Rug Weaving, from the Easy to the Complex Michael Rohde
Here, you will have the opportunity to learn several techniques, or simply focus on one. You will be exposed to both twill and block weave techniques, and can explore the use of inlay in the latter. We will begin with considerations of materials, structure and equipment needed to produce rugs that are both serviceable and lovely to see. Discussions about color, design and finishing will be included.
Equipment: Loom with four or more harnesses (table loom is OK).
W-309 Beginning Tapestry Techniques Rebecca Smith
This workshop is suitable for beginning tapestry weavers as well as others who want to review the basics of tapestry weaving. Students will be provided with pipe looms to use during the workshop and to purchase if they wish. Day 1 we will learn the basics of weaving shapes, including vertical and diagonal lines, curves and circles. The focus will be on learning to manipulate the weft by hand, achieve a smooth surface and control draw-in. Day 2 we will work on hachure and color blending and discuss tapestry design. Each student will create a cartoon for a small tapestry. Day 3 students will complete their small tapestries, interspersed with a discussion of tapestry tools, looms, yarns, and resources for purchasing these.
Level: Beginning
Materials fee: $10.00
W-310 Pictorial Tapestry Workshop--The Value of Value Sarah Swett - * FILLED
Tapestry is a glorious, ancient and yet utterly contemporary way to weave images in wool. But how, we often wonder, do those images come alive? What gives objects the appearance of volume when they are woven of wool on a flat warp? Using the magical properties of light, and the ever practical value study, each participant in this workshop will explore this question and begin to train her mind, eyes and hands to see, understand and then weave things in all of their three dimensional glory. We will spend time with cartoon design and the process of translating these designs into tapestry -- exploring what works, what doesn't, and why. During the workshop each person will begin to weave a small, two sided tapestry based on their own or one of my cartoons. This is very much a hands-on workshop but there will be time for discussion and an emphasis on sharing ideas, which will result in the creation of distinctly individual work.
Level: Intermediate (or enthusiastic beginner)
Materials Fee: $25
Equipment: Instructor will provide looms (unless students already have a “Brennan-style” copper or PVC frame loom) and warp and weft materials
W-311 Stripes with an Attitude Barbara Walker
Bold or subtle, stripes can be so much more than different colored threads. Learn the roles color, texture, pattern, and structure can play in designing stripes with pizzazz. Sample weaving includes twill and lace manipulations, textured lines, extracting portions of turned patterns, and various uses of supplementary warps. Day 1 - the warping process, begun before the workshop, will be completed. Sample weaving will begin when warping is completed. Day 2 – Lecture on developing stripe sequences, the role of color and texture, symmetrical vs. asymmetrical lines, tension andweaving, worksheets: designing a stripe sequence; determining where to place lines of color or texture and sample weaving. Day 3 – Lecture on quirks of weave structures, turned drafts and patterned stripes, worksheets: turning an overshot draft; developing a patterned stripe, sample weaving and sample critiques.
Level: Intermediate to advanced
Materials fee: $5.00
Equipment: An 8-shaft loom; 10, 12, or 15 dent reed; raddle; two sets of lease sticks. The instructor provides assigned drafts based on students' answers to a pre-workshop questionnaire.
Registrations opens November 1st, 2004
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