November 9-10, 2024 • 10:00 am-5:00 pm
This workshop is filled. However if you register you will be on the wait list. You will not be invoiced for the workshop unless a spot becomes available.
Spring Hollow Lodge, 1069 W. Main Street, Westerville, Ohio 43081
Workshop Description
This is a 2-day 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 for a 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.
Meet the Instructor
Kathrin Weber
Kathrin has been a full-time studio fiber artist since 1980. Her work revolves around dyeing, weaving and teaching. She has a fearless enjoyment in using hand-dyed color in her teaching, shop sales, and weaving. She enthusiastically encourages student to dive into color.
“My goal in my work, as well as for my students’ work, is to design and weave well made personal fabric using efficient techniques in set up, weaving and finishing. I approach designing and weaving with more anticipation of unfolding possibilities and less rigid pre-determination of the final product. This approach leads to a creative flow of physical time spent at the loom and to weaving projects that leave the door open to fabrics that are beyond original intent and planning.”
— Kathrin Weber
Workshop Details
Skill level:
Advanced Beginner (Must be able to set up a loom) to Advanced Weaver
(There will be plenty of new information for advanced weavers!)
Max. number of participants: 10
Instruction fee:
members: $285.00
non members: $310.00
Material fee: $75+ depending on students choice of hand-dyed warps (Yarn will be discounted from retail webshop prices) to be paid to instructor at time of workshop
Participant requirements:
* 4 to 8 Shaft loom with 300 thread dummy warp.
*registrants will receive detailed instructions for setting up a dummy warp as well as more detailed supply list*
Instructor provides(covered by materials fee):
* Three pre-wound, hand-dyed 4.5 yard, 100 thread warp chains (a total of 300 threads.)
* Handouts
