Saturday, November 16, 2024
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm CDT
How do you design fabric? Where do you get ideas from? How do you choose color combinations? What can I do with the yarn in my stash? These are the questions that weaver Janet Phillips answers in her books Designing Woven Fabrics and Exploring Woven Fabrics.
Janet will join us for a special Saturday Zoom presentation, all the way from the UK. In this presentation, she’ll discuss the basic construction of weaves and how to use multiple-sectioned sample blankets (gamps) to explore those weaves. Janet will also talk about designing stripes, choosing colors, applying color-and-weave techniques as well as the effect of sett, fiber, and yarn on a cloth.
Janet will then be joining us again, in 2025, as the instructor for our February workshop on Krokbragd.
Janet Phillips is a textile designer, weaving instructor, and author. She studied industrial textile design at the Scottish College of Textiles, earning a 1st class Honours Degree and the Dr. Oliver medal for the best design student for 1972. She worked in industry for several years before transitioning to a long career as a commission weaver, weaving everything from rugs to original designed fabrics for private clients on a 16-shaft dobby loom. Since retiring from weaving yardage, she has written two books, Designing Woven Fabrics and Exploring Woven Fabrics. She continues to teach from her studio in Somerset.
janetphillips-weaving.co.uk
This program night will be in Zoom only, with no in-person gathering.
See GoogleGroup, members-only pages, or newsletter for Zoom link