Instructor: Denise Kovnat
Workshop Description: Working with a variety of yarns, tie-ups, treadlings, and setts (if you choose), you'll weave a series of designs in Echo and Jin (Turned Taqueté).
Note: This workshop is offered as a VIDEO ONLY workshop and will cumulatively be available to all attendees.
You will:
- Explore the interaction of color and structure, using two or four colors in the warp and a variety of colors in the weft.
- Explore design, learning how different treadlings, tie-ups, and setts change the pattern.
- Learn the basics of Echo and Jin designs and, if you choose, how to alter a design or even create your own designs going forward.
- This workshop is for intermediate weavers and beyond, and for looms with 4 to 16 shafts (with designs for 24 and 32 shafts upon request).
While it's not required to own or have knowledge of weaving software, the instructor will use Fiberworks to demonstrate how these designs work and how you might create your own designs if you choose. With drafts and warping instructions provided beforehand, you will begin the workshop with your loom dressed in a two or four-color warp using an extended parallel threading.
Since this class requires attendance with a pre-warped loom, early registration is recommended. The instructor will start communicating with registrants about 6 weeks prior to the class.
Supplies: a pre-warped loom with 4 or more shafts - instructions will be sent upon registration. Fiberworks PCW or other weaving software is optional.
Materials/Handouts Fee: None
Attendee Limit: Unlimited
Instructor Bio: A weaver since 1998, Denise Kovnat has taught virtually and at conferences and guilds across the United States, Canada, and Australia. She focuses on parallel threadings, collapse techniques, painted warps, and deflected doubleweave. In 2022, she published a book on collapse techniques, Weaving Out of the Box: 12 Projects for Creating Dimensional Cloth. She is most proud of serving on the founding team of the Weaving and Fiber Arts Center, which opened in Rochester, NY, in 2002. To learn more, visit her blog at denisekovnat.com.
Echo & Jin; Variations on a Theme
This 3 day, multiple session workshop is offered as recorded VIDEOS ONLY. All sessions will be available as they occur thoughout the entire 3 week period.
Only members of the Weavers' Guild of Boston may attend.
You will received an emailed link and reminder just prior to the workshop.