Dyeing to Weave
Sat 18 Jan 2025, 10:00 am - Sat 29 Mar 2025, 12:00 pm
This course will focus on the construction of woven cloth with hand dyed yarns. We will be exploring colours from nature as sources of inspiration to create a dye palette, and designing warps using methods of dip-dying, over-dying, graduated colourways, and resist techniques to create unique hand-dyed warps to dress your loom with.
In the workshops you will learn about setting up the loom with an indirect warping method, which is where the warp is made separately and then attached to the loom for weaving. In our fabrics we will be trying a variety of textured pattern picks and supplementary weft patterns along with hem stitches to finish your work, and methods for creating twists plaits and knots to edge your projects.
Event Information
Price: £170.0
Course Weeks: 10
Room: Cruse Studio
Campaign: Spring Term 2025
Customer Information: All Materials Provided.
Your Tutor
Name: Amy Wilson
Bio: Amy has over 25 years’ experience in fabric design and has been weaving for the past 16 years. After graduating from embroidered textiles for Fashion degree at the London College of Fashion in 2003, she went on to establish her own design practice. She returned to education in 2008 to complete a woven textile design BA (hons) degree at Norwich University of the Arts. She has since completed a five year fellowship with the Digswell Arts Trust based in Hertfordshire.
Amy has been running Textile courses, classes and workshops in Colleges, Arts centres, at Digswell Arts and for local groups since 2012 as well as working on woven sample designs and her own ranges of hand woven cloth. She regularly exhibits her work in galleries and at events across Hertfordshire and beyond.
Department: Arts & Crafts
