TO REGISTER: 2 sessions
Session #1: April 26-28, 2024 - Session is FULL
Session #2: April 29 - May 1, 2024 - Session is FULL
Please email the Workshops Chair with questions.

“The Shifted Ikat Scarf” (three day in-person workshop)

Ikat is the centuries-old art and technique of resist-dying pattern into individual threads before weaving. It is a complex and revered fiber process resulting in graphically elaborate and compellingly beautiful woven cloth. Ikat wrapped yarns, when dipped in vats of dye, ihttps://www.seattleweaversguild.com/workshop-registrationnstantly become timeless, immersed in an ancient partnership between intention, design, and color.

Participants in this three-day workshop will design, wrap, dye, and weave a blue/white ikat scarf while learning the basic techniques of the warp ikat process. Each student will stretch a warp for an ikat scarf using warp yarns and a warping board they have brought to class. Several ikat warp wrapping methods will be demonstrated. The first day’s session will culminate in students dyeing their ikat wrapped warps using Procion Mx fiber reactive synthetic dye and then unwrapping the ikat resist warp bundles. Yarns will be hung to dry overnight.

TO REGISTER: 2 sessions
Session #1: Feb 22-23, 2024 - Session is FULL
Session #2: April 13-14, 2024 - OPEN / NOT FULL
registration for Session #2 opens Feb 3, 2024 @ noon, go to:
https://www.seattleweaversguild.com/workshop-registration
Please email the Workshops Chair with questions.

“Garment Construction and Finishing Techniques for Handweavers and Other Fiber Artists” (two day Zoom workshop)

A crash course in garment construction, embellishment, piecing, fit, finishing, and all-around fun! For weavers or anyone interested in learning to construct great looking and great fitting garments. Learn to be creative with your seam finishes, buttonholes, closures, linings, and embellishment. This is a terrific class for those wanting to learn to sew clothing from their hand-woven or other special fabric, as well as for those more experienced wanting polished and professional results. This class is both PowerPoint lecture and hands on!

TO REGISTER: Workshop is full (10/15/23).
Please email the Workshops Chair with questions or to be placed on a wait list.

“Zig Zag Rag Rug Techniques” (two day in-person workshop)

Students will weave a table runner or placemats during this 2-day workshop. The techniques they learn through these smaller projects can be applied to larger rugs on bigger looms. They will learn the techniques and tricks unique to zig zag rag rugs, including additional information on selvedge edges and finishing techniques that are unlike other rug finishes they may have been exposed to.

Sold out! Please contact the Workshops Chair to be put on a waitlist.

Using fewer than four threads per tablet, a technique dating back to the Hallstatt culture (c. 1500BCE), allows the weaver more flexibility in design, produces a less bulky band, and requires that the weaver have a good working knowledge of how tablet weaving works. In this workshop we will survey the range of vacant-hole techniques historically available to the weaver, examine the variables which control tablet weaving, and weave both a three-thread and a two-thread sample band. We will also discuss and practice both warping and drafting for the two techniques. Students will receive an extensive handout, including information on many of the techniques surveyed.

TO REGISTER: FULL (updated 4/15/23):
Please email the Workshops Chair with questions.

Deflected Double Weave (DDW) is a weave structure that has been “around” for a long time—at least as far back as the Ancient Colonial Shawl draft published in Mary Meigs Atwater’s Recipe Book, 1957. It has been called many things by many weavers and whether it is truly “double weave” is still debated. Traditionally, double weave is a single cloth in which there are two weaves. One warp interlaces with one weft and another warp interlaces with a second weft.