January 22, week 2

Bea’s office hours (Teaching Assistant): Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5pm (Sewing Lab or Studio A)
quiz 1: Fabric of Civilization
demo: using ball winder to make a cake, double plying yarn, using niddy noddy to wind a hank, figure 8 ties, relax the yarn in water, dry and wind into a ball or yarn butterfly (instructions, how to videos and visual glossary)
Weaving Presentation (mp4 file can be found here)
overview: weaving samples, online resources for the weaving assignment Technical Weaving Resource, Pinterest secret board–posting your images
look at plain weave on rigid heddle loom
identify your loom with tape + name, storing your loom in Studio A
distribute shuttles and reed

Homework for January 24

1. watch assigned Weavers Throughout Time and Place (part 1), quiz
Ancient Andean Textiles, 30 minutes
The Last Supper, ca. 1524–6 (design), ca. 1525–28 (woven), Bernard van Orley and Pieter de Pannemaker, 2.5 minutes
The Unicorn Tapestries, 9.5 minutes
Grayson Perry’s The Vanity of Small Differences, 10 minutes

2. identify meaningful songs (due January 29), please email the 2-3 songs to Natalya

3. pin images on Pinterest related to weaving and/or hand sewing

4. wind spun yarn into ball using ball winder, double ply the yarn, relax the yarn, wind into butterfly or ball (all how to videos are here under Assignments: Technical Learning Samples)

or

prepare a small hank/skein (1/2 of the commercial hank) with 8 figure eight ties; this is an opportunity to use the ball winder, umbrella swift, and niddy noddy (all how to videos are here under Assignments: Technical Learning Samples)