Description
Instructor: Deborah Jarchow
Saturday: 9:00 am – 12:00 noon and 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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Sunday: 9:00 am – 12:00 noon and 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Workshop description: Expand your weaving skills and make two layers in your cloth on the rigid heddle loom. While weaving, the layers can be connected in various ways to make cloth twice the width of your loom, create tubes, or pockets. Participants will make a sampler while exploring this process. During the workshop they will learn to thread the loom using two heddles and weave the layers in various ways. This workshop is for students that have some experience with the rigid heddle and want to move on to the next level. Students will warp the looms and learn how to set up and thread both heddles to enable the double heddle weaving. Then they will weave cloth at double the sett of the heddle used and create various beautiful patterns that the extra heddle makes possible. While working these beautiful patterns, they will practice manipulating the two heddles. They will learn how to magically create two layers of cloth, each a different color, and discover how to make pockets or tubes in the woven cloth.
Materials fee: There is no materials fee.
Student supply list: Students are to bring a rigid heddle loom with at least an 8” weaving width that is able to accommodate 2 heddles, two 7.5- or two 8-dent reeds, 4 pick-up sticks, 2 shuttles (with bobbins), 600 yards each of 2 contrasting colors of DK or sport weight yarn, scissors, tape measure, tapestry needle, cardboard tube from inside a paper towel roll, 2 brown paper grocery bags, and 30 yards waste yarn. Print the handout and bring it to class.
Skill level: Students should already know basics of weaving and be able to warp the loom.
Max # of students: 18
