January 15, week 1

J’s office hours (Teaching Assistant): 5-7pm on Thursdays (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
look at plain weave on rigid heddle loom
distribute materials and tools for Basic Hand Sewing sample
email Natalya 2-3 meaningful songs

Homework for January 22

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, email 2-3 songs to Natalya

3. double ply the single ply yarn, relax the yarn in water, stretch the yarn if it still has too much energy, dry the yarn, wind into ball (all how to videos are here under Assignments: Technical Learning Samples

4. prepare two hanks/skeins from one commercial hank with 8 figure eight ties; this is an opportunity to use the umbrella swift and niddy noddy (all how to videos are here under Assignments: Technical Learning Samples

5. Basic Hand Sewing Samples due (all instructional videos can be found here)