The aim of the course is to teach weavers the design possibilities of 8-shaft Twill weave structure
The course is suitable for weavers who wish to design their own patterns, rather than following patterns from books.
They must be confident about making a warp and dressing their loom.
There will be three sessions of approximately 2 hours each, one week apart.
- Janet will be available to answer questions via email throughout the course.
- A ‘Padlet’ will be set up for everyone to share photographs of their weaving.
- A recording of each session will be taken and posted on Janet’s website.
- Only paid -up students of the course may watch these videos.
Requirements
- An 8-shaft table loom with a weaving width of at least 16 inches
or an 8 shaft Floor loom with a weaving width of 24”.
- A copy of “Designing Woven Fabrics” by Janet Phillips
- Graph paper
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Ruler
- Calculator
- Two coloured pencils
- Reference will be made to the 4-shaft Twill gamp in my book Designing Woven Fabrics. Having a copy of this would be useful.
YARN REQUIREMENTS:
You will be weaving a finished sample blanket/gamp approximately 14” wide, or 23” wide and approx. 3 yards long.
A suitable warp and weft yarn would be 8/2ne cotton, sett at 24epi/24ppi.
You will need white for the warp, about 12oz, a dark colour for the weft about 11 oz
and a small amount of a third colour.
Warping plans will be sent one month before the course, so that you will have time to prepare your looms.
Session 1
- Learn the weave construction and how I developed the different threading plans on our gamps.
- Hands on practical exercises will be done together.
- Plan how to start weaving our sample gamp.
Session 2
- Learn how to construct different lifting plan and then a tie-up and treadling plan to weave different designs.
- Discuss the variations in weft patterns.
- Hands on practical exercises will be done together
- Echo Twill and Overshot
Session 3
- Students will come together to discuss outcomes of weaving the sample blanket.
- Exploration further twill structures such as Networked Twill and Crackle and Shadow Twill
- Looking at the Padlet of photographs together.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
- It is important that all participants actually attend the live lessons.
- There will be hands-on worksheets that we will do together so it is important that Janet can actually speak to everyone, answer questions and ensure that everyone understands the design process.
- Therefore: All students must have their videos on during the lessons.
- Before each session Janet will email everyone worksheets that they must print out to work on during the course.
- References will be made to the design ideas in my book Designing Woven Fabrics.
- The Zoom link will be emailed to each participant one hour before each Session
If the workshop is shown as out of stock and you would like to be added to the waitlist – please email guildprograms@redwoodgfa.org
