Wednesday Summer Series 2025
The 2025 Wednesday Summer Workshop Series offers Guild members an opportunity to view 8 Morning Workshop Zoom recordings. With the exception of the 2 three week workshops, each video will be available to registered attendees for 7 days beginning on a Wednesday, during which time you can watch as often as you wish with full video control such as pause, back up, and fast forward. If the instructor has provided handouts they will be available for download on the website video page.
July 16 - July 22
Deborah Jarchow
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Loving the Rigid Heddle
During the 2-hour session, Deborah will share her love of weaving on a rigid heddle loom. A short PowerPoint presentation will show Deborah’s projects woven on one of these versatile looms. Participants will see how many items can be woven on a small loom, including garments, blankets, bags, and more.
Janney Simpson
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Deflected Double Weave - Connections, Layers, & Pockets
Although DDW has been around for quite a long time, it has become an admired weave structure in the past few years due to many weavers exploring additional design variations. I have been exploring DDW for several years and will share my designs with you in this Zoom workshop. Join the DDW fun and discover what you can do with this structure!
Note: This ia a 3 week long workshop - each week an additional video.
July 23 - July 29
Norma Smayda
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Weaver Rose: Overshot and More
This workshop is based on the original overshot threading drafts of William Henry Harrison Rose, AKA Weaver Rose. It will include a brief history, examples of his original drafts, and how to interpret them. Norma will discuss traditional overshot as we currently draft it, concentrating on threading, tie-up, and treadling. There will be time for participants to write out overshot drafts using standard threading and treadling principles.
Janney Simpson
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Deflected Double Weave continues
First and second week videos available.
Karen Donde​
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Turned Beiderwand: One Threading, Multiple Structures
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July 30 - August 5
Although the history of the weave structure known as Beiderwand predates its name, Beiderwand remains a powerful tool for creating contemporary designs. When the traditional draft is turned, converting the customary supplementary weft to a supplementary warp, that power expands exponentially. This presentation will explore Beiderwand's history and traditional drafting and design characteristics
Janney Simpson
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Deflected Double Weave continues
First, second, and third week videos available.
Marcia Weiss
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Double Weave Drafting
August 6 - August 12
This is a technical, “how to” drafting workshop in which participants will create weaves, threading, tie-up and treadling diagrams for loom-controlled double cloth. Discussion will include: vertical and horizontal tubes, double width fabric, checkerboard pockets, two single layers and pleats. This workshop will include the 5 steps to creating double cloth structures
Denise Kovnat
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Echo and Jin
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). You will:
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Explore the interaction of color and structure, using two or four colors in the warp and a variety of colors in the weft.
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Explore design, learning how different treadlings, tie-ups, and setts change the pattern.
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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.
August 13 - August 19
Deb Essen
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Introduction to Supplemental Warps
What are supplemental warps and how do they work? Deb provides a quick tour/introduction to the weave structures woven with supplemental warps, and then she explains setting up your loom to weave.
Denise Kovnat
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Echo and Jin
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First and second week videos available.
August 20 - August 26
Cally Booker
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Two Faces of Twill
This class is all about double-faced twill. That’s not double weave with twill but a way of weaving an ordinary twill fabric with two complementary wefts to create unusual and intriguing patterns. We’ll see how the basic structure is created and gradually build up variations on four shafts, eight shafts, and more.
Denise Kovnat
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Echo and Jin
continues
First, second, and third week videos available.