Students will learn non-traditional techniques in setting up and designing at the reed while working effectively and efficiently with multiple warps and diverse warp elements. Students will use instructor-provided hand-painted warps.
In class we will design personal projects at the reed which create options for a variety of weave structures (plain weave, rib, rep, turned taqueté, twills, double weave, etc) with each single setup. They will learn to cleanly split warp chains to use threads that their current project requires while saving extra warp threads for future projects.
Each 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.
