| SKILL LEVEL | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Open to All | No experience necessary. |
| Beginner | Designed to teach you the basic foundational skills. Assumes no prior knowledge of weaving or spinning. |
| Advanced Beginner | Some experience with equipment and able to perform basic techniques—e.g., able to warp a loom and weave plain weave and twill; or able to use a wheel or spindle and spin a continuous yarn. |
| Intermediate | Comfortable with equipment; experienced in a variety of techniques; able to plan, draft, and design work—e.g., able to read a weaving draft and make a drawdown; has experience in several techniques; or comfortable with a wheel and learning to spin fine, medium, and heavy thread with some consistency in diameter. |
Leslie Fesperman
Discover the fundamentals of handweaving in this hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop. You will learn essential techniques while creating a structured sampler. The class covers dressing the loom, understanding basic materials, and developing consistent tension and workflow.
Topic: Weaving
Constance Hall
This rigid heddle class will be a building block kind of class where each skill you learn will set you up for success and ready to move the next step. Proper warping sets you up for successful weaving. Taking one step at a time makes each skill doable. No weaver left behind.
Topic: Weaving
Cameron Taylor-Brown
The legendary weaver Anni Albers said “our tactile experiences are elemental” and that playful exploration of materials is essential to “regain a faculty that was once so naturally ours.” You will play with a wide variety of materials and explore materiality as it specifically applies to weaving.
Topic: Weaving
Jennie Hawkey
Boundweave is a colorful, graphic weave structure used for striking wall hangings and durable rugs, pairing sturdy cotton or linen warp with richly colored wool or cotton weft. You will weave a vibrant boundweave sampler using beautiful wool yarns, discovering how blocks of color come together.
Topic: Weaving
Susan Kesler Simpson
You will delve into the basics of crackle weave in an orderly and easily understood manner. The goal is to introduce you to the beauty of crackle weave as well as introduce you to different treadling options. Color is an important part of the crackle weave.
Topic: Weaving
Ellen Hess
Color and Weave effects offer patterning beyond single color warp and weft weave structures. The patterns are often graphic, sometimes optical, and can be done on many types of looms. This workshop should appeal to a wide range of weavers from beginners to those with more experience.
Topic: Weaving
Laurie Duxbury
Using one warp, you will begin with traditional pattern treadling and advance to more varied structures, including honeycomb and boundweave. Learn how to keep track of pattern treadling without a draft, how to use color to create depth, and how to adapt overshot designs for your own use.
Topic: Weaving
Dianne Totten
Creatively piece together fabric strips to form a fabric block. Cut the block into weft strips and weave into a plain weave threading. Use fabric paints to create designs and learn an inlay process to make your project special.
Topic: Weaving
Marjie Thompson
This workshop is your chance to explore the textiles that were woven on treadle looms before and after the Industrial Revolution in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. You will go from "simple" two shaft work through the much-needed bagging and on to the more complex works.
Topic: Weaving
Robyn Spady
Unlock your potential of tied weaves in this immersive workshop ready to explore both structural elegance and creative versatility. You will learn foundational principles: including unit weaves, pattern shafts, and tie-downs. Historical and contemporary examples will deepen your understanding.
Topic: Weaving
Suzi Ballenger
Turned Taqueté is a perfect opportunity to step into the fun of color as the basis for exploring pattern and geometry in weaving. You will be amazed at how easy it is to use color to create original designs with this technique. This is a chance for your personal aesthetic to come alive.
Topic: Weaving
Susan Z Conover
Many weavers shy away from linen because it is considered a “fussy” fiber. This class is designed for weavers eager to learn everything about linen, including growing, processing, spinning, scouring skeins , and more. You will have a choice of five treadling options and four hemstitch techniques.
Topic: Weaving
Kathrin Weber
You 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. You will create options for a variety of weave structures with each single setup.
Topic: Weaving
Deborah Lawson
This class is intended to introduce you to how to create a pattern, warp a loom, and weave with fine threads, no larger than 20/2 cotton. You will decide on a technique suited to fine fibers, then provide a proposed draft to be threaded onto the loom.
Topic: Weaving
Jill Staubitz
Huck Lace and Bronson Lace are both beautiful block and unit weave lace structures that have intrigued weavers for ages. Both lace structures have a lot of design potential for creating beautiful cloth. You will examine the differences between the two laces by studying each.
Topic: Weaving
Karen Donde
This workshop provides guidelines for designing, planning, weaving, and finishing cloth appropriate for different garments, with hands-on weaving of potential clothing samples in a modified round-robin format. You will examine samples and discuss how to use or revise them for different clothing.
Topic: Weaving
Rosalie Neilson
This workshop introduces you to the concept of block design, where two shafts control the color of each block or threading unit. Discussions will focus on color, movement of blocks, skeleton tie-ups, and threading systems. A table runner or several placemats is your final project.
Topic: Weaving
David Heustess
On simple frame looms or small harness looms, you will explore a variety of tapestry techniques that can be used in almost any weaving project and on any loom. You will start with Wedge Weave Tapestry and then begin adding eccentric, inlay, and textured techniques.
Stacy Schlutsmeyer
You will learn to read your cards and master the fundamentals of tablet weaving in a fun and comprehensible way. The class begins with a pre-made “rainbow warp” designed to reveal the mechanics of tablet weaving. Each day features a new band, and a progression of exercises that build understanding.
Topic: Tablet Weaving | Weaving
Jennifer Williams
This “next steps” inkle band weaving workshop will introduce you to two pick-up techniques: Baltic style and horizontal stripe pick-up, on one warp. During the class, tips will be given for weaving clear and crisp motifs, how to manage float lengths, maintaining band width and more.
Topic: Inkle Loom | Weaving
Alanna Wilcox
This workshop is designed for beginners who want a practical, encouraging start to spinning on a wheel or electric spinner. You will be guided step by step through setup, basic mechanics, and the foundational drafting skills that make spinning feel understandable and repeatable.
Topic: Spinning
Martha Owen
Gain inspiration and skill at matching different fleece for different types of yarn for diverse end products. Create a truly hand spun textile to share that shows the gifts that wool has to give. Touch on spinning methods, wheel set ups, lessons in consistency, fulling, and more!
Topic: Spinning
Jacey Boggs Faulkner
If you want to be a better spinner, this class will help. You will learn short forward draft, short backwards draft (with/without twist between your hands), from the fold, supported long draw, double-draft long draw, unassisted long draw, and more.
Topic: Spinning
Dia Robinson
This is an intensive workshop centered on precision fiber color mixing. The purpose is to gain a deeper understanding of color theory and learn how to use optical blending in wool to intentionally create your own custom colors through structured, measurable methods.
Topic: Spinning
Jill Duarte
An in-depth exploration of using consistent measurement, techniques and fiber to create consistent yarns. You will learn how measuring wraps per inch and angle of twist to take control of your spinning for more consistent results.These skills will be practiced while spinning a variety of fibers.
Topic: Spinning
Thomas Victor
This workshop is for those who know how to spin but never got the hang of how to spin consistent superfine lace, or cobweb. You will learn to spin fibers from several different breeds, look at raw fleeces, and recognize what characteristics will be easy or challenging.
Topic: Spinning
Paula Vester
In this dye workshop, you will work hands-on with the dyes. You will get both historical and practical information, tips, and guidance. A lot of basic home products get overlooked as dyes because they are around us and maybe even in our kitchens everyday
Topic: Dyeing
Suzanne Conners
Stitched shibori is a resist-dye technique that uses hand stitching to create pattern, line, and texture on cloth. Through demonstration and guided practice, you will create a series of stitched samples that emphasize intentional design and surface development.
Topic: Dyeing
Jessica Kaufman
In this workshop, you will be introduced to the basics of batik using natural beeswax and hand carved woodblocks. Completely unlike hand-drawn wax designs
Topic: Dyeing
Dawn Edwards
During your felt exploration, there will be time for experimentation, as well as inspiration. You will create fabulous felt and nuno-felt hats through the wet-felting process. You will focus on techniques, patterns, and concepts using both open and closed resists to design our millinery creations.
Topic: Felting
Patti Barker
Silky and gorgeous wearable art are the inspiration for this class. It is not typical nuno felt. Strips of fine merino wool will be laid in interesting designs upon the silk.
Topic: Felting
Geri Forkner
This workshop pairs two of fiber arts’ most expressive techniques—weaving and wet felting—to produce surfaces that neither method can achieve alone. You will begin by weaving a delicate web of cloth. You will learn how fiber choice, cloth structure, and wool placement influence the final surface.
Josephine Dakers-Brathwaite
Discover how simple wool fiber can be transformed into a sturdy, sophisticated work of art. You will journey through the ancient art of felting, where you will mix soft wool fiber with colorful silk scraps and textured embellishments.
Topic: Felting
Rebecca Jensen
Artists have taken ply-splitting to the next dimension – 3D! You will start with a few simple braids to get you comfortable with the gripfid and the quarter twist. You will be aught the skills; you will make the creative decisions.
Topic: Other
Cindy Irwin
In this workshop, you will design your own 14" x 14" pattern using stencils of weathervanes and designing a geometric background.
Topic: Other
Rebecca Heid
Discover the timeless beauty of bobbin lace making in this beginner-friendly class. Learn basic techniques to create stunning lace projects, such as bookmarks, trims, or other decorative pieces. All materials are provided, and no prior experience is necessary.
Topic: Other
Emolyn Liden
This workshop is for the knitter who wants to dive deeper into hat construction, learn creative color-work, and examine how different fibers can elevate unique projects. You will explore how to make patterns pop and numerous elements of hat construction.
Topic: Other
Carol James
Explore an ancient technique of sprang to make stretchy fabric: no loom and no weft. Threads are attached to a fixed point and your fingers manipulate the threads to create the structure. The result is a "Plain Weave" strap where threads travel "on the bias".
Topic: Other
Sue Muldoon
Learn the basic shape and weaving techniques for an Appalachian Backpack. Skills learned will be setting a base, chicken feet, twining, over/under pattern, shaping the belly of the basket and finishing the rim with filler and lashing.
Topic: Other
Peggy Wertheim
Peggy will guide and teach you through traditional marbling techniques using a carrageenan size and acrylic paints on paper, cotton fat quarters, and flowing silk scarves. ou will explore and practice a variety of classic patterns. Bring your curiosity, creativity, and love of color.
Topic: Other