Morning (11AM): “Intro to Supplementary Warps and Wefts”
Afternoon (1PM): “Overshot Overview”
Morning Program: “Intro to Supplementary Warps and Wefts”.
Enhance your handwoven textiles with the addition of supplementary warp or weft yarns (or both!). Supplementary warp and weft fabrics are compound structures, which means they have a foundation weave structure (often plain weave) plus additional pattern threads in the warp or weft. Explore the possibilities for decorative warp stripe motifs, weft pattern embellishments, deflected surface interest, eyelash and other pile weaves, and simple passementerie decorations.
Afternoon Program: “Overshot Overview”
Overshot is a compound weave structure that combines a plain weave background cloth with elaborate, almost brocaded weft patterning. With simple 4 shaft block threadings, a remarkable range of beautiful and intricate geometric and curvilinear designs are possible. Understand overshot weave components and their relationship to twill progressions, as well as the many possibilities that individual overshot threadings offer the inquisitive weaver.
About Hannah:
About Ellen:
Ellen Hess is a fiber artist and textile designer who has been weaving for over 40 years. She has served as in-house textile designer for both domestic and European textile firms. Ellen has served as the Textile/Structure program coordinator for Peters Valley Craft Education Center. She is an adjunct professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and has taught at the Newark Museum (N.J.), the Brookfield Craft Center, Peters Valley Craft Education Center, and national and regional fiber conferences such as Convergence, MAFA (MidAtlantic Fiber Association), and Stitches East. Ellen teaches, lectures and leads workshops around the Northeast. She has written articles for Handwoven Magazine, and her textile woks are in galleries, shops, collections and museums in the U.S. and Canada.