Beginners Tapestry Weaving

The course will cover a range of different tapestry weaving techniques, and is suitable both for complete beginners and for improvers looking to refresh their skills and add new techniques to their repertoire. Over the weekend, you’ll explore the possibilities of weaving using a range of materials and techniques. Working on a small frame loom, you will create a woven sample, exploring different flat weaving techniques to create simple shapes, angles, curves and stripes.

A wide variety of materials will be available to experiment with, including cottons, wools, linens, and some unusual yarns for creative weft blending. If you have your own materials you’d like to include—perhaps an old jumper to upcycle or leftover yarn from previous projects—feel free to bring them along. Sustainability is encouraged

• Over the two days, you’ll learn how to
• Measure out and warp up a simple frame loom
• Choose appropriate thicknesses of materials to weave with
• Explore plain weave
• How to control the weft tension across the woven surface to keep straight sides
• Create simple shapes, such as rectangles, squares and curves, as well as angles and stripes
• Work with multiple weft bundles
• Deal with slits and interlocking wefts where shapes come together
• Explore colour blending
• Finish off and present their work