Controlling Creative Chaos

Exploring Turned Taquete (and other structures) with Spaced-Dyed Warps

3 Days

Wednesday, April 19 from 1:00-5:00

Thursday, April 20 from 9:30-4:30

Friday, April 21 from 9:30-4:30

Instructor: Kathrin Weber

$200 WGGC member / $225 non-member

Materials fee: purchase of Blazing Shuttles warp at workshop

Experience Level: Must be able to warp your own four or eight shaft loom independently. Not suitable for rigid heddle looms.

Workshop Limit: 10

The goal for this workshop is to learn to design effectively and efficiently with multiple warp chains, which aids in creative designing at the loom and develops new techniques for more spontaneity and confidence in the creation of fabric. Students will enjoy a non-traditional approach to Turned Taquete, but more options will be explored as well.

Students will learn non-traditional techniques that allow them to work smoothly with mulitple warps and to design with diverse warp elements at the loom. They will use instructor provided hand-painted warps in which the colors flow and change, creating designs in the woven fabric that appear complex in planning, but actually spring from making flexible and intuitive decisions as they work. Students will work seamlessly with multiple warp chains to create alternating color sequences used in Turned Taquete and other weave structures. They might choose to flip sections of the warp from end to end, createing color flow in opposite directions. They might choose to shift the warps to create patterns that flow in the weaving lengthwise as well as horizontally.

In this workshop, we start the designing process tying on a 300 thread dummy warp that students threaded before class. Tying on can be a time saver, an eye saver, and a method to approach desing techniques at the loom as opposed to using a computer or pen and paper.

Students Provide:

• 4 or 8 shaft loom
• Decent full-size scissors
• Tape measure
• Threading hooks
• Two (2) shuttles: boat for fine weft, ski or rag for heavy weft
• Appropriate sticks or paper for winding a 4.5 yard warp
• Fine point Black Sharpie Pen
• Calculator
• Two (2) spring clamps big enough to clip onto your back beam
• Roll of 1″ masking tape (Yellow, light green, or light blue painter’s maksing tape are the best choices.)
• Notebook, pens for notes and handouts.
• Lunch and beverages
• $$ for warp

Check out Kathrin’s website, Blazing Shuttles. Questions about the workshop? Contact the Chair, Melissa Lusk, at mglusk60 @ gmail.com.

Effective August 26, 2021

**Mask policy for this class: Check the CDC website here for the current guidance for Hamilton County, Ohio. Green: masks optional. Yellow and Red: masks required.

WGGC Cancellation Policies Regarding Student Fees

• If a teacher or the Guild cancels a workshop – full refund to all registered students. Generally, the teacher or the Guild may cancel the workshop three (3) or more weeks before the start date. This is stipulated in the contract but can be flexible if both parties agree.
• If a registered student wishes to cancel, they must:
  • Contact the Workshop Chair
  • If canceling thirty (30) or more days before workshop start date, student receives a refund of the workshop fee minus a $50 cancellation fee.
  • Cancel twenty-nine (29) or fewer days before the workshop start date:
    • Refund workshop fee minus $50 cancelation fee only if vacant spot is filled by another person (from waitlist or otherwise).
    • No refund if spot remains vacant.
    • A registered student may independently find someone to take their place at the workshop with no extra fees involved as long as no cancellation is performed through EventBrite. Workshop Chair MUST be notified. In this situation; the primary registered student is responsible for all fees, passing on information to their replacement, etc.
• Eventbrite and credit card processing fees are not refundable.