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Color-and-Weave Duets and Trios

Three-Day Workshop

Description for publicity:

Start with a basic weave structure, add an alternating color sequence, add two shuttles, mix together, and voilá: color-and-weave cloth. Whether you're a color/texture weaver or a structure junkie, you'll enjoy weaving duets of structures and color-and-weave counterparts, and learn a few woven embellishments to add to your repertoire. This is weave structure and color theory for smarties!

To the workshop coordinator:

This is a round-robin workshop for four and eight-shaft looms. Samples are in groups of twos and threes, in that the same yarns will be used for a group so participants can compare the original structure with its color-and-weave version. Example: for two samples, one will have Color A for warp and Color B for weft; its counterpart will use the same Color A and the same Color B in both warp and weft according to a prescribed color sequence. I will rely on you to distribute the drafts. Keep in mind that your weavers will likely be sharing yarns. I will make color suggestions for each sample, and indicate which are for more experienced weavers

Day One:

    I.  Lecture: defining color-and-weave, common structures, types of color sequences
    II. Sample weaving

Day Two:

    I. Lecture - working with pure hues
    II. Exercise - stripes wrapping with pure hues 

    III. Sample weaving

Day Three:

    I.  Lecture - adding embellishments 
    II. Exercise - develop a color-and-weave draft
    III. Sample weaving and critiques

Level of expertise: All except beginners; must be able to wind a warp and warp a loom independently with alternating colors.

Maximum number of participants: 18

Students need: 4 or 8-shaft loom with appropriate reed; shuttles; bobbin winder; appropriate yarns for assigned samples; colored pencils; graph paper (no smaller than 8/inch); cardboard strip for a wrapping; embroidery floss (or equivalent weaving yarn) in the pure colors yellow, orange, red, violet, blue and green; $10 materials fee
Optional: laptop with a weaving program

Teacher needs: Two large tables, chalkboard and chalk, or whiteboard and markers.

Teacher provides: A folder for each student which contains a complete set of workshop drafts and handouts, samples for viewing

Contact Barbara for further details and fee information.  

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