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Peters Valley School of Craft

A Garden of Color: Weaving Wool in Naturally Dyed Hues

August 13 - August 17, 2021

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A Garden of Color: Weaving Wool in Naturally Dyed Hues

$725.00

Details Fee Breakdown:
Tuition: $615
Material Fee: $110

Discover how to use plant dye on wool, exploring how to maximize color from a limited palette gathered from nature, while you play with a multi-shaft loom. Achieve a sumptuous array of hues on naturally colored wool, developing rich tones to combine in warp and weft. Explore weave structures on a four or eight harness loom and learn how to read and modify drafts from a collection provided in class. You will combine a variety of weave structures and weft colors using your specific threading to weave up a soft, patterned scarf or color gamp.

Level: Advanced Beginner and Beyond
Workshop Levels

Definitions of Skill Levels for Workshops

  • Beginner and Beyond: Introductory level course that presents basic knowledge of tools, materials and techniques and is geared towards first timers or those who want to improve and expand their technique. It takes time to build skills.
  • Advanced Beginner and Beyond: Instruction that assumes some familiarity with tools, materials and equipment. Includes reviews and builds on basic skill sets, allows for those with more experience to work at their own pace. Further development of fundamentals, participants have had at least one class or equivalent with professional instruction.
  • Intermediate: Course content that assumes a working knowledge of basic studio tools, materials and equipment necessary to accomplish the projects and techniques to be explored. Participants feel comfortable in the studio setting.
  • Intermediate to Advanced: Course content that requires a proficient working knowledge of studio tools, materials and equipment necessary to accomplish the projects and techniques to be explored in class.
  • Advanced: Assumes proficiency and advanced working knowledge of materials and studio tools and equipment so that the focus is on artistic narrative and/or technical development.
Type:
Ages: Adult

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Wendy Weiss

Wendy Weiss is an artist, natural dyer, and weaver who uses natural dyes that she cultivates and collects locally.  She was awarded two Fulbright Nehru Senior Scholar Awards to research warp ikat in India, and is a past recipient of two Nebraska Arts Council Artist Fellowships, as well as a Winterthur Residential Fellowship. She exhibits her ikat weavings in solo and group shows in North America, Europe, and Asia and collaborates with Jay Kreimer on a range of installation projects using diverse materials. She is on the editorial team for the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, former board member of the Textile Society of America, and professor emerita of textile design in at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She teaches workshops on creative applications of warp ikat and natural dye on cotton and wool.

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