Weaving Art and Things on a Rigid Heddle Loom
Adult Class | Registration opens 8/4/2026 9:00 AM MDT
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 or learn to create tapestries using weft inlay techniques.
- Scissors, tape measure, yarn if you do not want to use the yarn supplied in class.
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.