April 2021 Meeting

Program Night — Designing with Painted Warps, Tien Chiu
Thursday, April 8, 2021
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Zoom link will be sent out via the Googlegroup

Tien Chiu, noted textile artist, author and color expert, will provide a presentation on Designing with Painted Warps at our April meeting.

People often find color in weaving to be so complicated that it feels downright mystical. But it’s not. Color in weaving follows rules, and once you understand the underlying rules, you can design beautiful work. Painted warps are beautiful. But they can be difficult to design with. Painted-warp colors can change radically when woven, depending on your weft yarn colors and your choice of design. This program explains the basics of how color works in weaving and then covers how to choose weft, weave structure, and sett to showcase the colors of your painted warp – either by preserving the original colors or by blending them with a carefully chosen weft color to bring out their beauty Zoom link will be sent out via the membership Googlegroup.

There are no hands-on meetings while the rec centers are closed due to COVID.