Weaving: Controlling Creative Chaos

Description

Overview: In this 3 Day Weaving Class we will discuss concepts and physicality of designing at the loom with multiple warp chains, choosing colors, and setting up. We will also explore possibilities beyond the student’s original plans/intentions. Most of the weaving may take place after the class depending on the skill level of the students. Here are the details: This is a jam packed class that is guaranteed to give you some new insight into what you are already weaving and what you might add to that in the future. Students will use instructor provided hand-painted warps in which the colors flow and change - creating designs in the woven fabric that appear complex in planning, but actually spring from making flexible and intuitive decisions as they are set up and woven. Students might choose to mix warps of different weights, textures, and fiber content to create stripes within the space-dyed design. They will learn to cleanly split warp chains to use threads that their current project requires while saving extra warp threads for future projects. These workshop warps can be woven in a variety of weave structures: Plain weave, ribb, repp, turned taqueté, twills, double weave, etc. Everyone's class design will be unique so class members learn from their own projects as well as from the others. In this workshop we start the designing process by tying on to a dummy warp that students have threaded before class. Tying on is an essential step in our designing process. This workshop is not suitable for rigid heddle looms. I bring a wide range of hand-dyed warps for students to choose from for this class and at least one more future project. Class warps will be offered to students at a discount off the prices for similar warps in my webshop: blazingshuttles.com/shop. Students may also bring warps previously purchased from me. ‍ If a deposit is made, the full amount will be due September 4