Weaving

Make stunning fabrics for your own clothes and interior soft furnishings with a leading edge table top loom and using the latest range of wonderful yarns.  No longer a sentimental craft from days gone by, weaving has definitely entered the 21st Century and will give you the ability to get exciting items that you can't get in the shops and that nobody else will have.  Perhaps create your own designer label!

Under the skilful eye of leading Designer Weaver Alison Yule you will come away with the satisfaction that you have given your creative juices a chance to flow. You may even get the bug to want to learn how to get creative with luxury fibres like angora and silk or get trendy with eco-yarns like bamboo and use natural dyes to help the environment.

Weaving With Your Hand Spun
Come and learn how to use your hand spun in weaving. Learn to calculate how much yarn you have for a warp, how to warp the loom, simple design methods and finishing your woven projects. Bring your own warp.

Suitable for: All abilities.

Tutor: Alison Daykin

Rigid Heddle

On this two day course you will discover how to make the most of your rigid heddle loom.  You will have the choice to explore colour and plain weave or finger manipulated lace weaves and will have a scarf and several swatches to use as reference for future projects.

Suitable for: All abilities.

Tutor: Alison Daykin

Painted Warps
Learn how to produce stunning effects on your warps using a variety of dyes and methods including painting, screen printing and dyeing.

Suitable for: Weavers with some experience.

Tutor: Alison Daykin.

Colour and Weave
Using a combination of colour and simple weaves you will learn to produce stunning fabrics to be proud of.  Starting with simple design skills you will go on to learn to draft a variety of weaves on paper before warping your loom.

Suitable for: All abilities, including the beginner with a rigid heddle loom.

Tutor: Alison Daykin

Learn to Weave
Design, calculate and make a warp, dress a loom and finish your fabric.  Understand the difference between a balanced weave and a warp or weft faced weave.  This intense five days will give you the basic knowledge to be able to weave confidently in plain weave and twill.

Suitable for: Beginners.

Tutor: Alison Daykin

Introduction to Finger Manipulated Lace Weaves
A week-end course designed to help you make the most of plain/tabby weave.  Particularly useful for those with a "rigid heddle" loom.

Suitable for: All abilities, including the beginner with a rigid heddle loom.

Tutor: Alison Daykin

Design for Weavers
Put the "Wow Factor" into your fabrics. You don't need to be able to paint or draw. Understand colour theory, learn to read pattern drafts and how to adapt them to your designs. All materials provided.

Suitable for: Some weaving knowledge required.

Tutor: Alison Daykin

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