Stripes with an Attitude

Description for Publicity:

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 One:

The warping process, begun before the workshop, will be completed. Sample weaving will begin when warping is completed.

Day Two:

I. Lecture: developing stripe sequences, the role of color and texture, symmetrical vs. asymmetrical lines, tension and weaving

II. Worksheets: designing a stripe sequence, determining where to place lines of color or texture

III. Sample weaving

Day Three:

I. Lecture: quirks of weave structures, turned drafts and warp-patterned stripes

II. Worksheets: turning an overshot draft, developing a patterned stripe from a turned overshot motif

III. Sample weaving

IV. Sample critiques

Level of expertise: Intermediate to advanced weavers; no prior art background required

Maximum number of students: 18

Students need: 8-shaft loom; 10, 12, or 15 dent reed; raddle; two sets of lease sticks; paper lunch bags (without lunch); two strong rods, two C-clamps, and weights for a second warp, or a loom with two warp beams; shuttles; bobbin winder; appropriate yarns for assigned sample; $5 materials fee; patience.

Room requirements: A well-lit room with lots of windows, large enough to accommodate students' looms; a seating area and tables so students can take notes during lectures

To be provided for the teacher: Two large tables, chalk board and chalk, or white board and markers

Teacher provides: Assigned drafts based on students' answers to a pre-workshop questionnaire, workshop drafts and handouts, samples for viewing

Contact Barbara for further details and fee information. E-mail: barbara @ barbarajwalker.com

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