TODAY’S AGENDA
- Welcome & Exit Ticket Responses from 9/1 (below)
- Share out: Found Looms and Warp/Weft Materials
- Demo: Warping
- Activity: Warp Time! or time warp?
- Demo: Basic Plain Weave & Needles
- Review homework for Tuesday 9/8 (below)
- Demo: Posting documentation to this WordPress website
- Exit Ticket (below)
- Videos of Demos from class on 9/3
DUE FOR NEXT CLASS
The following are due by the beginning of class, Tuesday, Sept. 8:
- Do Part 2: Testing, Tinkering, Toying of the Improvisational Weaving assignment.
- Order Course Materials Package beginning Friday, Sept. 4
- Create a blog post on this WordPress site to document Part 2 of Improv. Weaving
- Categorize your post with this WordPress category: Improvisational Weavings
- Write a brief paragraph outlining your explorations: intended effects, surprises, discoveries, challenges, successes.
- Embed clear, quality images of your weaving experiments in the blog post.
- Embed and Label clear, quality images of the items you gathered for in your scavenger hunt in the blog post.
Exit Ticket Responses from 9/1:
Are there any other resources you would recommend beyond office hours for us to use for inspiration or help on these techniques if we hit a road block?
- Yes! Your experimental weavings will be unlike anything else out there to look at – but there are lots of resources for looking at weavings, both ancient and contemporary. What you are making are experimental tapestries, specifically. For looking at historical weavings from many regions of the world, a good resource is the image library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Search it using the word “Tapestry” and then selection a region of the world you would like to look at. Your weavings are NOT expected to look like these – but they might serve as inspirations.
- Here are a few links to look up contemporary tapestry weaving:
- https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/tapestry-art-wall-weavings-artists
- https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/bauhaus-textile-workshop-art-institute-chicago
- https://hyperallergic.com/585578/sonia-gomes-new-york-debut-pace-….
- https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/buy-textile-wall-art/
- General Search for Textiles on Widewalls website
- https://www.thisiscolossal.com/?s=tapestry
- https://www.thisiscolossal.com/?s=weaving
- Techniques:
- An awesome resource for beginner weavers! Fibers and Design
- Another technique resource: The Weaving Loom
- Very fundament weaving technique covered: Schacht Weaving
I’m really excited about fabric printing. is there a way to access that outside of the specific fabric printing assignment/outside of this class?
- Take a look at spoonflower.com to see if they would meet some of your immediate needs!
First off, I love that literally anything can be used for weaving! But how long does a typical weaving take? I’m really seeing the potential for different scales!
- A weaving can take an hour or it can take years!!!! (I will show you in a later slideshow weavings that took years to create). It depends on the size of your weaving, how fine your warp and weft threads are, the tools you have access to, and what kind of weaving you are doing. For these experimental weavings we are doing for this assignment, I expect the weavings due 9/8 to take anywhere between 1-2 hours each. I think these weavings will give you a really good sense of how to scale your weavings and ambitions for weaving(s) due on 9/15. Let’s check in again about time and weaving after the weekend to see what your experience shows you.
Demo Videos (on Youtube)
- Improvisational Weaving – Warping part 1
- Improvisational Weaving – Warping part 2
- Improvisational Weaving – Weft part 1
- Improvisational Weaving – Weft part 2
- Improvisational Weaving – Weft part 3
- Making a Blog Post