Triangle Weavers Guild

Important Dates and Information

Workshop dates: 3 days

Friday, Saturday & Sunday. March 26th, 27th & 28th 9:00 am - 5:00 pm each day

Members: $325 Non-members: $365

Material fee and what it covers:

Each participant will pay a materials fee of $80 directly to the instructor for:

• 3 pre-wound cotton 4.5 yard, 100 thread warp chains - 300 total threads,
• Handouts with detailed instructions

Registration opens:

• For members: Tuesday at noon, December 29th. You will need the TWG member password to register.
• For non-members: Tuesday at noon, January 26th

Registration deadline: March 12th

Cancellation deadline: February 1st

Location: Triangle Fiber Arts Center Auditorium

Description:

3 Day Class Overview: 

Students learn non-traditional techniques in setup and designing at the reed while working effectively and efficiently with multiple warps and diverse warp elements. 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 provide 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.

3 Day Weaving Class is a jam packed class with adequate time to 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.

Prerequisites for participants:

• Newish Weavers who have worked independently, but best for Intermediate to Advanced level weavers.
• Specific skills required: This class requires understanding and rethinking many weaving processes to work with instructor’s nontraditional techniques

Materials to be provided by/Additional Instructions for students:

1. Each participant will pay a materials fee of $80 directly to the instructor to cover costs of:

• 3 prewound cotton 4.5-yard, 100 thread warp chains - 300 total threads. (This is a discount on the warps listed in her webshop).
• Handouts with detailed instructions including Pre-workshop preparation.

2. Each student must bring their loom to TFAC already dressed with a dummy warp. *See below for more information about reserving a loom from the guild.

3. Bring your lunch and any snacks you may want! Access to a refrigerator and microwave is available, along with a coffee pot and a hot water kettle for tea.

*The guild has a limited number of looms available. BEFORE YOU REGISTER for the workshop, RESERVE YOUR LOOM HERE. AFTER YOU SUBMIT YOUR LOOM RESERVATION FORM, RETURN HERE AND FINISH THE REGISTRATION PROCESS for the workshop.

• Any weaving required to finish your project after the workshop must be done at TFAC during Drop-in hours or other prearranged times. Looms may not leave the facility. 

For questions about the workshop, contact Sue Jaken (suejaken@gmail.com) or Marty Mason (fosterdog49@yahoo.com)

For questions about your registration, contact the Registrar (twg.registrar@gmail.com)