Two Day Weaving Workshop - Sarah Saulson
Sett and Density
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| Date: | Thursday, November 11, 2010 - Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| Time: | 10am - 4:30pm |
| Location: | Evangelical Congregational Church Vestry |
| Level: | Beginning to Intermediate |
| Limit: | 12 students |
| Tuition and Registration Information | |
This workshop provides a concentrated look at how to create the appropriate cloth for its function by understanding and using good principles of sett, density and beat. Sarah developed this program after discovering that many weavers actually know very little about this subject.
This program is designed for beginning and intermediate weavers. Participants can experiment with sett, weave density and basic weave structures on pre-warped looms. In the workshop, participants sley their reeds each day, using different setts. Each participant leaves with samples.
Equipment for participants
Students will bring a 4-shaft or 8-shaft table of floor loom warped according to instructions.
Biography
Sarah started weaving as a child in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She became seriously involved during the early 1980s in the Boston area, where the Weavers Guild of Boston played an important role in her early development as a weaver. Since then, she has pursued fiber arts as her full-time profession for more than two decades. For many years she sold her handwoven fashion accessories at juried craft shows, including ACC shows and retail craft shows in the northeast and mid-Atlantic.
Sarah attended art school at Syracuse University and also received an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Wellesley College. This has fueled her interest in ethnic textiles and processes and has resulted in the privilege of working with and supporting contemporary weavers in Ghana and Guatemala.
Teaching in a variety of contexts has become an important part of her weaving life. In addition to working with adult learners throughout in many parts of the country and children in local schools, she teaches weaving at Syracuse University. “My students of all ages continue to energize and educate me.”
Sarah has lived and worked in an old brick house in Syracuse, New York since 1990, which she shares with her husband and their cats. “My studio is the third floor of our home, where I look out upon a glacial drumlin covered with stately, tall, old trees.”
Visit www.sarahsaulson.com for more information and examples of her work.
Tuition
$140 for WGB members
$175 for non-members
Materials fee: $5.00, payable at the workshop
Registration
Space is limited, so register early! Just print the Registration Form, fill it out and mail to the address specified.
Cancellation Policy
A full refund will be granted at any time if the space can be filled from a waiting list. If the class has no waiting list, a cancellation which is over 30 days prior to a workshop will receive a 50% refund, and a cancellation within 30 days will receive no refund.