The School of SweetGeorgia is focused on creating new weavers who love colour! Before we can begin mixing and blending yarns and colours in handwoven cloth, we need to learn how weaving works and gain a fundamental understanding of some basic weaving concepts.
There is an essential body of knowledge in weaving that is helpful to know, regardless of what equipment you are using to weave that cloth. This workshop is an overview of the essential concepts so that you can progress towards weaving on a rigid heddle loom, a multi-shaft loom, or whatever loom you choose to work with. We explore looms and tools, yarn for weaving, calculating and winding warps, and the fundamental movements of weaving.
This workshop is designed to introduce you to the world of modern weaving by teaching you how to use the simplest of all looms: the frame loom. You will learn how to use basic weaving techniques such as plain weave, looped tabby, soumak braid, and more! Come on and weave weird with us!
In the "Rigid Heddle Weaving Basics" workshop, we introduce you to weaving with a rigid heddle loom. This little loom is quite a powerful and versatile piece of equipment and can help you to weave beautiful cloth that could be used for everything from scarves and shawls to textiles for the home.
Learn two different ways to warp your rigid heddle loom and discover how quick and easy it can be to weave. We work through step-by-step to weave two colourful scarves.
A reed substitution chart is a great way to extend your reeds to be used at a wide range of setts.
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Weave a beautifully soft and simple scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a hand-dyed or handpainted sock yarn for the warp and create your cloth with a variety of colours in the weft to enjoy the colour interactions.
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Weave a beautifully elegant and silky scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a range of hand-dyed semi-solid sock yarns for the warp and bring them all together with a single hand-dyed lace yarn.
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Tapestry weaving is an art that has been around for hundreds of years and it continues to capture the imagination of artist and admirers today. In this course, Janna Maria Vallee teaches the essential tapestry weaving skill of “meet and separate”: a method that helps maintain proper tension and makes gorgeous colour blending in our works possible.
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Welcome to Rigid Heddle Weaving Basics! In this course, we are going to introduce you to using a rigid heddle loom. This little loom is quite a powerful and versatile piece of equipment and can help you to weave cloth that could be used for everything from scarves and shawls to textiles for the home. […]
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For many, weaving can seem like a huge undertaking with lots of expensive and equipment attached to it, so it doesn’t seem very accessible. However, I’m here to show you that the core of weaving is actually very simple and there are so many paths to follow that it’s very possible to find the right […]
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We have a special place in our heart for weaving with hand-dyed knitting yarns. Once we're all up to speed with weaving on a rigid heddle loom or multishaft loom, we'll focus on more projects that explore colour interactions with hand-dyed yarns. Think hand-dyed gradient sock blanks, speckled and splashy yarns, handpainted yarns and more...
