Fall 2025 - Live and Virtual Workshops
September 10, 2025
Penny Lacroix
Weaving Gamps
A weaving gamp is a two-dimensional array of woven patterns. It is used as a tool to examine the interactions that occur at the intersections of each warp and weft variable. In the most basic gamps, the variable is the same in both warp and weft, i.e., it’s woven as drawn in. This workshop will help weavers understand what a gamp is, how to design and create one, and how it can be utilized.
Sondra Bogdonoff
The Loom: Constraints and Opportunities
The loom has specific strengths that limit and define what you can and cannot make. Yet those constraints can also be places to explore more deeply, to push boundaries, to make new discoveries.
Sara Bixler
Weaving Multiple Structures on a Straight Eight Threading
ZOOM WORKSHOP
This workshop is intended to help you think beyond the obvious possibilities of a given threading and its' treadling variations. Dozens of structures are possible on the simple threading of one to eight. By simply thinking through and changing the tie-up and lift combinations all these well-known weave structures are possible and many more with one threading.
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
October 8, 2025
Krysten Morganti
Turned Twill: the Dragonfly and the Jellyfish
If you like playing with color and twills, turned twill blocks are the perfect next step! This class will help you understand how to create drafts of your own design. We will cover some basics about reading drafts, then look at how a variety of twill blocks can be created on an eight-shaft loom.
Suzi Ballenger
Word Smithing: Writing your Authentic Artist Statement
Learn how to navigate ways to express yourself in your artist statement, how materials can speak about your art, and how to best combine the two. Together, we will find strategies to shape sentences with intention, using words in ways that move others, while staying true to your art and yourself
Phillis Miller
Woven Sashiko – Explore the Tradition
ZOOM WORKSHOP
Sashiko-ori (woven sashiko) is a method for handweavers to produce in their own woven fabrics the patterns of traditionally hand stitched sashiko designs. The patterns often require 6 to 8 shafts (seldom 4) and consist of blocks of plain weave ground crossed by floats of pattern warp and/or weft threads.
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
November 12, 2025
Fritz Horstman
Interacting with Color:
A Hands-on Workshop of Josef Albers's Color Experiments
This workshop will focus on the core experiments that Josef Albers developed over his long career of teaching at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and at Yale University. Using Color-aid paper, participants will experiment such phenomena as color relativity, after-image, and illusions of transparency.
Andrea Myklebust
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Participants will have an opportunity to learn about the warp-weighted loom, a weaving tool which dominated the ancient world from the Aegean to the North Atlantic in the millenniums prior to the development and introduction of the horizontal loom to Europe. Andrea will bring some of her looms, including warp-making equipment, and examples of textiles she has woven on the warp-weighted loom. There will be time to try weaving on this unusual upright loom.
Jamie Hurlburt
Crackle Weave: A Weaver’s Playground
ZOOM WORKSHOP
Crackle is a very practical structure, with short floats that won’t snag in a tea towel. It’s also an incredibly versatile structure, with more treadling options than any other style of weaving I’ve found. That same threading that makes a sturdy tea towel can be woven off as lace or as twill, turned into a polychrome rainbow, or treadled for honeycomb
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
January 2026 Special 2 Day, Multiple Session Virtual Workshop
Two Saturdays:
January 10, 2026
and
January 17, 2026
Dawn Ahlert
Weft Twining with a Twist: Taniko - 2 and 3 Color Twining
ZOOM WORKSHOP SERIES
(2 sessions each day)
Indigenous peoples have long incorporated weft twining. Used in both textile and basket making, different cultures have developed their own unique patterns and approaches. My work has been inspired by the textiles of the indigenous Chilkat of Northwestern America and Canada and the Māori people of New Zealand.
Note: This workshop series is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY option for viewing on Sunday following each workshop day and all sessions will be available through February 9, 2025.
February 11, 2026
Carl Stewart
fruit 'n fibre: it's what I am, it's what I do
In his lecture, Ottawa-based Canadian weaver Carl Stewart presents a survey of his 30-year career spotlighting works in which he has employed traditional hand-weaving techniques to explore the fundamental role textiles play in the crafting culture and identity. He is known for his creative approach to recycling and upcycling materials as well as his inventive technique of Dukagang tapestry work. Stewart celebrates, memorializes, documents and commemorates the intimate, the fabulous, the egregious and the tragic.
Note: This is a meeting, not a workshop, and attendance is free to all. Register for this ZOOM meeting by clicking on the 'Events' button on the Meetings Page.
Winter 2026 - Virtual Meeting
Spring 2026 - Live and Virtual Workshops
March 11, 2026
Nathan Vierling-Claassen
Rigid Heddle “Muck Lace”
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll learn a woven lace structure uniquely suited to the Rigid Heddle loom. This structure allows for intricate patterns but moves faster on the loom than you might expect, and is actually impossible to produce on most multi-shaft looms! The name, “Muck Lace,” was coined by its creator, David Xenakis as a tongue-in-cheek reference to not quite being Huck Lace.
Mary Zicafoose
Travelogue-- Color, Symbols and
Universality of Techniques
Is it the lineage we share, the equipment, materials, and techniques that we have in common that connect and feed us? Or is it the memory of the exotic cloth that predates us, the bolts of opulent fabrics that dressed prior generations that ignites in us a spark of collective memory and wonder?
Sara Nordling
Design (Going beyond the Recipe)
ZOOM WORKSHOP
If you are going through the effort to make a hand woven textile, shouldn’t it be well designed? How would you go about doing that? This workshop will lead your through the elements and principles of good design so that you can make sure your weaving is not only structurally sound but aesthetically pleasing.
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
April 8, 2026
David Fraser
Introduction to Ply Split Braiding
Ply-split braiding involves using a tool to part the plies of one fiber cord and to pull a second cord through the gap created, repeating the process many times. Men in Rajasthan, India, have long made decorated camel girths with ply-split braiding, whereas fiber artists around the world have taken up the technique to make a wide range of constructions.
Eva Gaultney
Weaving Queries
Left a section or a group of threads out of your warp? Need to fix a broken warp thread? Want some extra weaving tips to add to your repertoire? Compiled in this workshop are questions and situations I have encountered while working at a weaving school. Some are problems that pop up every once in a while, others are frequently asked questions, along with extra tips I’ve picked up over time.
Linda Schultz
Tessellations are Cool!
ZOOM WORKSHOP
Tessellations are shapes which can fill a surface without gaps or overlapping, famously used in the artwork of M. C. Escher. Tessellation designs are often appealing and are especially suited to weaving designs.
Note: This workshop is also offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop for viewing for 1 week starting on Friday following the workshop.
May 14, 2025
Full day Annual Meeting