WORKSHOPS FOR SPECIFic TECHNIQUES--
Small Scale/Small Format Tapestry Weaving
(1-2-3-5 days)
Small-scale tapestry creates an intimacy that is not often felt in large-scale tapestry. The student will learn the importance of proportion and scale in both materials and design. Participants will be encouraged to weave a small sampler at 20 wpi--6 inches by 6 inches in the class using sewing thread for the weft and craft/upholstery thread for the warp. Instruction will include slide presentations, hand¬outs, group demonstrations, personnel instruction, and a section on creating and adapting looms for small-scale weavings. (Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class. If the class is a 2-3 day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. Five days and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. ($25.00 materials fee all weft and warp supplied by instructor) advanced or intermediate level) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools.
Instructor supplies warp and weft.
Student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
Soumack-Something Old-something new
(2 hours, .5 days, 1-2-3-5 days)
Soumack-no matter how you spell it is a technique that can be used to create whole cloth or be mixed with tapestry to create lines that travel in any direction and any angle. Soumack can be used to outline, lock shapes into place, smooth edges or produce a unique surface. Traditionally, it was used throughout the middle east to produce containers and household items. Mixed with tapestry it becomes an all purpose technique for creating lines, texture and problem solving.
( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class the instructor will also have looms available for use in class by students. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. 2-3 workshops and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. advanced or intermediate level) ($25.00 material fee) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
Student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
The student will learn techniques for creating both stylized and photo-realistic flower cartoons for tapestry weaving. Students who feel they cannot draw will be taught to work with photographs, digital images, slides, photocopies, historical paintings, and old tapestries to produce images for their tapestries and cartoons. Through a series of exercises the workshop participants will be encouraged to create floral cartoons that will help them discover and invent their personal style and weaving level. Students will be taught by viewing slides, practical demonstrations, handouts, and personal instruction within the workshop and weaving.. (The 2-3-day class will design, discuss, and begin to weave their cartoons, or they may weave one of a se¬ries of cartoons that will have been prepared for the class. When looms are required in 3-5 day workshops (3 day workshop participants will be required to warp loom prior to the class), the students will be supplied in advance with the directions for building a small loom that is transportable in a suitcase, also the warp for the loom, and a supply list. The emphasis on what the students produce will change according to the length of the class. Requires basic knowledge of tapestry technique. ($20.00 materials fee)) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
The techniques of hachures and hatching are related in the way that they produce weft directional bars and shapes of colour and then can be used progressively for contouring and blending colours. Pick and pick is a technique that can be used for shading and producing grids, dots, and lines of colour that travel the direction of the warp. All of these techniques can be combined with other techniques such as colour blends and fades to produce contouring, layering, and transparencies. The workshop participants will produce a sampler of these techniques and their variations. Demonstrations, sampler weaving, handouts and slide lectures will be used to teach these techniques. (Directions for building a small portable looms, warping directions, and warp will be supplied prior to the workshop. ($15.00 materials fee) intermediate to advanced. ) orIn 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, beyond beginning level
Crenulated weave structures are related to hachures and hatchings which are used for the interlacement of colour areas in tapestry weaving. These structures are called crenulated because they look very much like the top of castles or forts. Historically they are found in Middle Eastern and Scandinavian tapestry weaving. Design wise and technically they can be used as single sided, double sided or can be grouped in multiples for shading, frames or used architecturally.
The definition of a hachure is the creation of woven tri¬angular areas or lines that penetrate into an adjacent weft shape and produce an intermingling of the two colours to produce a third colour or colour mixture. This class will teach the participant how to use hachures, hatching, and eccentric hachures to blend colours, Crenulated weave structures produce changes in perspective, and in shading.
Students will bring warped looms to the class and a small sampler of the techniques and their variations will be woven in the class (the size of the sampler produced will vary according to the choice of loom and warp sett chosen by the student). Demonstrations, handouts, and slide lectures will also be used in the class. Directions for building a small loom to weave the sample on will be supplied prior to the class along with warp and weft choices for the sampler. ($15.00 materials fee) ($25.00 material fee) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, –skill level—beyond a beginning level tapestry weaver, basic weaving tools)
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
Slits are produced when two areas of weaving are woven side by side without overlapping each other. The workshop will teach the specifics of slits and the various ways to get rid of the holes in your tapestry that are created by slits. The class will include instruction in the basic-dovetails, interlocks, double weft interlocks (both from the front and back), clasped, toothed, etc. Several different techniques for sewing slits will also be introduced. But, suppose you wish to make the slit work for you? Techniques for fine lines and shadows will also be presented using the slit. A multi-cultural approach will be taken (Navajo, Scandinavian, French, Middle Eastern, Chinese), borrowing from whatever works. The students will be taught by demonstration, slides, handouts of each of the techniques, and student participation. Students will produce a sampler of the various techniques. Directions for building and warping a small portable loom will be supplied prior to the class. Warp and weft is also included. ($12.00 materials fee) intermediate to advanced.
Historically pulled slits were used as design elements. They created lines, designs, shading, and delineation in same colour weaving. They could be woven through to create outline and texture. An old technique based on the weavings of the Hunt of the Unicorn, Lady and the Unicorn and other tapestries of 14th, 15th and 16th century. An imbricated slit is the opposite of a pulled slit which leaves one side of a slit over the edge of the other side like the overlay of feathers. This class is meant as an introduction to the technical usage of the slit and designing with the slit and pulled slit. The students will be taught by demonstration, slides, handouts of each of the techniques, and student participation. Students will produce a sampler of the various techniques. Directions for building and warping a small portable loom will be supplied prior to the class. Warp and weft is also included. ($12.00 materials fee) intermediate to advanced.
Shaped tapestries are showing up everywhere. They are being used for jewelry containers, medicine bags, small purses, small art works, and are being woven into already finished fabrics. They look difficult to weave, but they are not, once you understand a few basic principles.
Loom controlled shaping. Workshop Participants will learn to shape and do 3-d tapestries constructed on looms, create patterns for shaping, weaving shaped tapestries, tubes, darting, voided areas, and scaffolded tapestry weaving and other construction techniques for 3-d and shaped tapestry.
( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. Five days and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. ($15.00 materials fee) advanced or intermediate level)
Tapestry is, of course, a plain woven structure with a discontinuous weft usually covering all of the warps. Needle felting is the art of applying fiber, yarn or an image to another surface with the use of a felting needle. Needle felting can be used to do images in which you don’t want stair steps, add images and small details after the tapestry is woven or even as it is being woven, optical blending, ghost images, transparencies, corrections to a woven image, outlining, hide the rib structure of the tapestry and change the surface of a tapestry. Any level(Materials fee 10.00-includes handouts, sampler pack of needles, foam and wool, but not the tapestry)
Students will be taught different methods of creating tapestry cartoons or for adapting their drawings, paintings, or photographs to cartoons. The class is also presented in such away that those students who say they cannot draw or design will be able to produce designs that are uniquely theirs. Skills and exercises can be used to produce tapestry designs from other sources--paintings, photocopies, historical tapestries, and collage. The emphasis will be on producing weavable cartoons. Scale, size, materials, warp and weft choices, and materials will be discussed. Supporting handouts and slide presentations will also be used in the instructional time. ($7.50 materials fee) Student supplies basic design tools. Any level
In order for a weaver to use a limited palette, techniques were developed such as hachures, hatches, melange, chines, colour fades, and multiple wefts, the use of silks, rayon, metallics and mohair to change reflective quality. The participant will produce a sampler of the various techniques used in tapestry that emphasis colour and value and colour theory. The class will explore colour usage in tapestry through slide presentations, samples, weaving a sampler. Each student will leave with a woven sampler and supporting handouts of the various techniques. Directions for building a small portable loom and warp will be supplied upon request to the student prior to the workshop. ($12.00 materials fee) students supply small portable warped loom. Teacher supplies weft, handouts and supplies used in class.
A class for the more then beginning tapestry weaver who wants to add brocading techniques such as crappaud, Hopi embroidery, zilli, coal miner’s edge, cicim, and soumak to their bag of tricks for creating surface texture to tapestries.
( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. Five days and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. ($15.00 materials fee) advanced or intermediate level)
Soumack-no matter how you spell it and there are dozens of ways to spell it- is a technique that can be used to create whole cloth or be mixed with tapestry to create lines that go horizontally or vertically. The technique can be used to outline, lock shapes into place, smooth edges or produce a unique looking surface. Traditionally it was used throughout the middle east to produce containers and household items. Mixed withtapstry it becomes an all purpose technique for creating lines, texture and problem solving.
( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. Five days and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. ($15.00 materials fee) advanced or intermediate level)
Students are taught the basics of warping a tapestry loom, choosing materials, choosing a loom, tools, tapestry weave structure, weaving basic shapes, basic colour blending, slits and simple joins. At the end of the class the student will have knowledge of warping simple looms, the beginnings of a sampler or a sampler (this is dependent on the speed and the knowledge the weaver began with and varies for every student), handouts of each of the techniques, and will have seen each of the techniques demonstrated several times. (Prior to the workshop the students may request the directions for building a simple portable tapestry loom or very small portable ones can be purchased from the instructor and built by the student(separate charge))($25.00 materials fee. 10.00 material fee for .5 days and seminars. Students will be sent directions for warping the looms. In the shorter classes a day or less warping is done in the workshop. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
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 will 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 technique and be used to give a historical and cultural overview of tapestry. Dependant on length of workshop what all is covered in workshops at this level. Students are asked, if possible, to bring a warped loom to class. Directions for building a small portable loom are supplied prior to the class along with warp and weft samples. ($25.00 material fee) If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
The subject presented in this class is supplied by both the teacher and the student. A questionnaire is sent to each student prior to class to find the student's interest and what he/she would like to learn. The perimeters of the class are set by the questionnaire. What the students want to learn is then taught by slide lecture, handout, demonstration, and practical application. Prior to the class, directions for building a small portable loom, a questionnaire, warp, and weft samples are supplied. ($25.00 material fee) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
Russian Old Believers always have tassels on their belts signifying the unwoven ends that were proscribed Mosaic Law in the Old Testament. There are many ways to end a belt. This class is an exploration into endings and beginnings.
($10.00 materials fee) (any level) students supply basic weaving tools plus a liter pop bottle shaped like the old 7-up bottles or a wine bottle
The workshop is meant to emphasis the use of journals, a way to adapt from the various journalers a method of writing and recording that is useful to the participant. Questions are presented that you might want to ask yourself to get started. No specific technique is taught. No dogma. This class can suggest through a series of exercises that are drawn from various journal techniques' ways of tapping into the images in the conscious, dreams, and daydreams. Different ideas from other journalists will be given to the students on ways to organize and use the journal. Emphasis will be on learning techniques and organizational methods that will allow an artist to tap into his/her mages and symbols--or just to record various ideas or what the participant is doing at a specific time or period in his/her life. ( 2.00 fee, no level, student supplies writing utensil, paper or journal)
Learn to embroider in pile. The class will discuss the use of Ignolochii as used by the Russian Old Believers in clothing hangings and beautiful corners.
(20.00-lab fee includes special needle, threader, beginning amounts of thread and sample cloth. Student supplies, hoop and basic embroidery supplies, any level)
Soumack-no matter how you spell it is a technique that can be used to create whole cloth or be mixed with tapestry to create lines that travel in any direction and any angle. Soumack can be used to outline, lock shapes into place, smooth edges or produce a unique surface. Traditionally, it was used throughout the middle east to produce containers and household items. Mixed with tapestry it becomes an all purpose technique for creating lines, texture and problem solving.
( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class the instructor will also have looms available for use in class by students. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. 2-3 workshops and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. advanced or intermediate level) ($25.00 material fee) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
Student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
FLOWERS et al
(1-2-3 days)
The student will learn techniques for creating both stylized and photo-realistic flower cartoons for tapestry weaving. Students who feel they cannot draw will be taught to work with photographs, digital images, slides, photocopies, historical paintings, and old tapestries to produce images for their tapestries and cartoons. Through a series of exercises the workshop participants will be encouraged to create floral cartoons that will help them discover and invent their personal style and weaving level. Students will be taught by viewing slides, practical demonstrations, handouts, and personal instruction within the workshop and weaving.. (The 2-3-day class will design, discuss, and begin to weave their cartoons, or they may weave one of a se¬ries of cartoons that will have been prepared for the class. When looms are required in 3-5 day workshops (3 day workshop participants will be required to warp loom prior to the class), the students will be supplied in advance with the directions for building a small loom that is transportable in a suitcase, also the warp for the loom, and a supply list. The emphasis on what the students produce will change according to the length of the class. Requires basic knowledge of tapestry technique. ($20.00 materials fee)) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
Hachures, Hatching and Pick and Pick
(1-2-3 days)
The techniques of hachures and hatching are related in the way that they produce weft directional bars and shapes of colour and then can be used progressively for contouring and blending colours. Pick and pick is a technique that can be used for shading and producing grids, dots, and lines of colour that travel the direction of the warp. All of these techniques can be combined with other techniques such as colour blends and fades to produce contouring, layering, and transparencies. The workshop participants will produce a sampler of these techniques and their variations. Demonstrations, sampler weaving, handouts and slide lectures will be used to teach these techniques. (Directions for building a small portable looms, warping directions, and warp will be supplied prior to the workshop. ($15.00 materials fee) intermediate to advanced. ) orIn 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, beyond beginning level
Hachures, Hatching, and Crenulated weave structures
(1-2-3 days)
Crenulated weave structures are related to hachures and hatchings which are used for the interlacement of colour areas in tapestry weaving. These structures are called crenulated because they look very much like the top of castles or forts. Historically they are found in Middle Eastern and Scandinavian tapestry weaving. Design wise and technically they can be used as single sided, double sided or can be grouped in multiples for shading, frames or used architecturally.
The definition of a hachure is the creation of woven tri¬angular areas or lines that penetrate into an adjacent weft shape and produce an intermingling of the two colours to produce a third colour or colour mixture. This class will teach the participant how to use hachures, hatching, and eccentric hachures to blend colours, Crenulated weave structures produce changes in perspective, and in shading.
Students will bring warped looms to the class and a small sampler of the techniques and their variations will be woven in the class (the size of the sampler produced will vary according to the choice of loom and warp sett chosen by the student). Demonstrations, handouts, and slide lectures will also be used in the class. Directions for building a small loom to weave the sample on will be supplied prior to the class along with warp and weft choices for the sampler. ($15.00 materials fee) ($25.00 material fee) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, –skill level—beyond a beginning level tapestry weaver, basic weaving tools)
Lines and All that Stuff
(seminar.5-1-2-3-5 days)
Have you ever wondered if there was something beyond the basics in tapestry? Well, there is. This is an exploration and demonstrations of a few of the advanced techniques—vertical lines, loosing stair steps on angles, wavy and non wavy straight lines, soumack, eccentric weaving, wedge weave and shaping, blisters, texture, metallic, switching warp setts, outlining, arras, interflection, reflection, transparencies, etc. Slides, handouts and demonstration support teaching. (more then a beginner) student will provide small frame looms that are warped. Directions for building loom can be suggested by the instructor prior to the class) or ($25.00 material fee) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
Slits--To be or not to be!-not
(.5 1-2-3-5 days)
Slits are produced when two areas of weaving are woven side by side without overlapping each other. The workshop will teach the specifics of slits and the various ways to get rid of the holes in your tapestry that are created by slits. The class will include instruction in the basic-dovetails, interlocks, double weft interlocks (both from the front and back), clasped, toothed, etc. Several different techniques for sewing slits will also be introduced. But, suppose you wish to make the slit work for you? Techniques for fine lines and shadows will also be presented using the slit. A multi-cultural approach will be taken (Navajo, Scandinavian, French, Middle Eastern, Chinese), borrowing from whatever works. The students will be taught by demonstration, slides, handouts of each of the techniques, and student participation. Students will produce a sampler of the various techniques. Directions for building and warping a small portable loom will be supplied prior to the class. Warp and weft is also included. ($12.00 materials fee) intermediate to advanced.
To be-Pulled slits and Imbricated slits(Bunnmonstre)
(seminar-.5-1-2-3 days)
Historically pulled slits were used as design elements. They created lines, designs, shading, and delineation in same colour weaving. They could be woven through to create outline and texture. An old technique based on the weavings of the Hunt of the Unicorn, Lady and the Unicorn and other tapestries of 14th, 15th and 16th century. An imbricated slit is the opposite of a pulled slit which leaves one side of a slit over the edge of the other side like the overlay of feathers. This class is meant as an introduction to the technical usage of the slit and designing with the slit and pulled slit. The students will be taught by demonstration, slides, handouts of each of the techniques, and student participation. Students will produce a sampler of the various techniques. Directions for building and warping a small portable loom will be supplied prior to the class. Warp and weft is also included. ($12.00 materials fee) intermediate to advanced.
Shaped Tapestry
(1-2-3 days)
Shaped tapestries are showing up everywhere. They are being used for jewelry containers, medicine bags, small purses, small art works, and are being woven into already finished fabrics. They look difficult to weave, but they are not, once you understand a few basic principles.
Loom controlled shaping. Workshop Participants will learn to shape and do 3-d tapestries constructed on looms, create patterns for shaping, weaving shaped tapestries, tubes, darting, voided areas, and scaffolded tapestry weaving and other construction techniques for 3-d and shaped tapestry.
( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. Five days and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. ($15.00 materials fee) advanced or intermediate level)
Out side the box-needlefelting and on tapestry(.5)
Tapestry is, of course, a plain woven structure with a discontinuous weft usually covering all of the warps. Needle felting is the art of applying fiber, yarn or an image to another surface with the use of a felting needle. Needle felting can be used to do images in which you don’t want stair steps, add images and small details after the tapestry is woven or even as it is being woven, optical blending, ghost images, transparencies, corrections to a woven image, outlining, hide the rib structure of the tapestry and change the surface of a tapestry. Any level(Materials fee 10.00-includes handouts, sampler pack of needles, foam and wool, but not the tapestry)
And now the idea-Creating Tapestry Cartoons (1-2-3 days)
Students will be taught different methods of creating tapestry cartoons or for adapting their drawings, paintings, or photographs to cartoons. The class is also presented in such away that those students who say they cannot draw or design will be able to produce designs that are uniquely theirs. Skills and exercises can be used to produce tapestry designs from other sources--paintings, photocopies, historical tapestries, and collage. The emphasis will be on producing weavable cartoons. Scale, size, materials, warp and weft choices, and materials will be discussed. Supporting handouts and slide presentations will also be used in the instructional time. ($7.50 materials fee) Student supplies basic design tools. Any level
Colour and Tapestry
( seminar-.5-1-2-3 days)
In order for a weaver to use a limited palette, techniques were developed such as hachures, hatches, melange, chines, colour fades, and multiple wefts, the use of silks, rayon, metallics and mohair to change reflective quality. The participant will produce a sampler of the various techniques used in tapestry that emphasis colour and value and colour theory. The class will explore colour usage in tapestry through slide presentations, samples, weaving a sampler. Each student will leave with a woven sampler and supporting handouts of the various techniques. Directions for building a small portable loom and warp will be supplied upon request to the student prior to the workshop. ($12.00 materials fee) students supply small portable warped loom. Teacher supplies weft, handouts and supplies used in class.
Colour Movement in Tapestry-
or All Together now.
(1.5 hours .5-1-2-3 days)
This workshop is for more then the beginner. It combines all of the colour and shading techniques both warp direction and weft direction. Warp direction techniques –hachure hatching, crenellation. Weft direction-chené, mélange, colour fade pick and pick and then blends them together to work together. This workshop blends the notes into a sybaritic symphony of bacchanalian splendor. (Advanced) ( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. Five days and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. ($15.00 materials fee) ( advanced or intermediate level)Floating through-Brocading Techniques for tapestry
(1-2-3 days)
A class for the more then beginning tapestry weaver who wants to add brocading techniques such as crappaud, Hopi embroidery, zilli, coal miner’s edge, cicim, and soumak to their bag of tricks for creating surface texture to tapestries.
( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. Five days and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. ($15.00 materials fee) advanced or intermediate level)
Soumack
(1.5 hours .5-1-2-3)
Soumack-no matter how you spell it and there are dozens of ways to spell it- is a technique that can be used to create whole cloth or be mixed with tapestry to create lines that go horizontally or vertically. The technique can be used to outline, lock shapes into place, smooth edges or produce a unique looking surface. Traditionally it was used throughout the middle east to produce containers and household items. Mixed withtapstry it becomes an all purpose technique for creating lines, texture and problem solving.
( Directions for making a pipe loom that is easy to trans¬port will be supplied to the student prior to the class. If the class is a three-day class, looms will be warped prior to the workshop with directions and warp supplied by the instructor. Five days and the loom can be warped the morning of the first day. ($15.00 materials fee) advanced or intermediate level)
Tapestry 101 or Beginning Level Tapestry
(2 hours, .5 , 1-2-3 days)
Students are taught the basics of warping a tapestry loom, choosing materials, choosing a loom, tools, tapestry weave structure, weaving basic shapes, basic colour blending, slits and simple joins. At the end of the class the student will have knowledge of warping simple looms, the beginnings of a sampler or a sampler (this is dependent on the speed and the knowledge the weaver began with and varies for every student), handouts of each of the techniques, and will have seen each of the techniques demonstrated several times. (Prior to the workshop the students may request the directions for building a simple portable tapestry loom or very small portable ones can be purchased from the instructor and built by the student(separate charge))($25.00 materials fee. 10.00 material fee for .5 days and seminars. Students will be sent directions for warping the looms. In the shorter classes a day or less warping is done in the workshop. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
Beyond 101 or Beginning Tapestry 2
(2-3 days)
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 will 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 technique and be used to give a historical and cultural overview of tapestry. Dependant on length of workshop what all is covered in workshops at this level. Students are asked, if possible, to bring a warped loom to class. Directions for building a small portable loom are supplied prior to the class along with warp and weft samples. ($25.00 material fee) If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
Further beyond
(3 days)
The subject presented in this class is supplied by both the teacher and the student. A questionnaire is sent to each student prior to class to find the student's interest and what he/she would like to learn. The perimeters of the class are set by the questionnaire. What the students want to learn is then taught by slide lecture, handout, demonstration, and practical application. Prior to the class, directions for building a small portable loom, a questionnaire, warp, and weft samples are supplied. ($25.00 material fee) In 2-3-day workshop the looms may be built and warped the first day of instruction for shorter classes I prefer the looms to be warped before class. If the instructor supplies the looms there will be an additional; 5.00 per student added to the materials fee for shipping and handling the looms. Beginners- basic weaving tools. Instructor supplies warp and weft.
student supplies basic weaving and design tools, advanced
OTHER THINGS-
Russian Old BelieverTassels
(.5 1-2-3 days)
Russian Old Believers always have tassels on their belts signifying the unwoven ends that were proscribed Mosaic Law in the Old Testament. There are many ways to end a belt. This class is an exploration into endings and beginnings.
($10.00 materials fee) (any level) students supply basic weaving tools plus a liter pop bottle shaped like the old 7-up bottles or a wine bottle
Journal and Goal setting!
(1-2-3 days)
The workshop is meant to emphasis the use of journals, a way to adapt from the various journalers a method of writing and recording that is useful to the participant. Questions are presented that you might want to ask yourself to get started. No specific technique is taught. No dogma. This class can suggest through a series of exercises that are drawn from various journal techniques' ways of tapping into the images in the conscious, dreams, and daydreams. Different ideas from other journalists will be given to the students on ways to organize and use the journal. Emphasis will be on learning techniques and organizational methods that will allow an artist to tap into his/her mages and symbols--or just to record various ideas or what the participant is doing at a specific time or period in his/her life. ( 2.00 fee, no level, student supplies writing utensil, paper or journal)
Russian Punch Embroidery
(.5 day-1-2 day)
Learn to embroider in pile. The class will discuss the use of Ignolochii as used by the Russian Old Believers in clothing hangings and beautiful corners.
(20.00-lab fee includes special needle, threader, beginning amounts of thread and sample cloth. Student supplies, hoop and basic embroidery supplies, any level)
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