Designing with 4-Shaft Twills

REGISTRATION WILL OPEN AUGUST 17, 2024

Zoom Study Course
Teacher: Janet Phillips
Website: www.janetphillips-weaving.co.uk

Dates: Three Sundays - Jan 26, Feb 2 and 9, 2025
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM Houston Time
Cost: $125
Location: Zoom Class

Class description: In this course, you’ll learn how to design your own fabrics rather than take patterns from books. You’ll learn how to construct and weave a 4-shaft gamp and develop original fabrics from the patterns created from it.

Who: This course is suitable for beginner and intermediate weavers who are already confident about making warps and dressing their own looms.

Requirements: As this course is based on Janet’s book DESIGNING WOVEN FABRICS, each student must have a copy of this book to do the course.

Course Outline: Three, 2-hour Zoom sessions, one week apart.

Session 1: Weaving a small sample gamp (Approx. 12” x 36”)

How to construct and weave a 4-shaft multiple-sectioned sample blanket. Practical lessons writing out weave structures, constructing threading plans and lifting plans on Point Paper.  A warping and threading plan will be worked out so that students can prepare their looms ready for the second lesson.

Session 2: Playing with weft lifting plans and colour

• Looking at possible lifting plans.
• How to change the colour of warp ends
• Colour and Weave Effects

Session 3: Design Criteria

• Choosing Colour
• Designing Stripes
• Sett, Fibre and Yarn, Dyeing techniques