Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom & Shibori Weaving Session A
Adult Course | Available
This course is designed for beginners as well as experienced weavers. Beginners will be taken through 3 projects to learn basic weaving skills. Advanced students will work with the instructor individually to create projects that take their weaving skills to a new level. Advanced students will also be offered the opportunity to study and weave Shibori.
- Required Supplies:
- Scissors
- Tape Measure
- Notebook
- Yarn
Schacht Cricket Looms will be provided by ASLD.
Yarns for projects will be provided, but students will be able to purchase their own yarns for their projects
David van Buskirk
As a weaver, I am always in collaboration with a loom. It is as important to me as the materials my hands work with. The looms can be as complicated as an industrial jacquard or as simple as a weighted warp, a loom invented in the stone age. Whether complex or simple, weaving requires a mechanism to create warp and weft, the structure on which my art is made.
The warp and weft create a rigorous grid for me to work with. This grid provides the structure for exploring color, pattern and texture. This is exacting but often intuitive. There occurs a playful cooperation between the elements of rigor and organic spontaneity in my work. These contradictory elements collaborate to create works of beauty, decoration and meaning.