Gamp Camp
Explore our yarns and colors
Special one-time opportunity — join us as we weave these beautiful gamps to display in our store
Instructors: Becky Ashenden & Eva Gaultney
Dates offered 2024: Jun 3–7
Gain experience working with this wide variety of materials that will broaden the scope of your future projects. If you are mystified by how colors blend together on the loom, and intrigued by unfamiliar yarns, our Gamp Camp class is just what you need. You will have the opportunity to weave with nine of our luxurious yarns, each in our own chosen arrangement of colors. The fabrics you take home with you will be informative references for many years to come. This is an exciting opportunity, as these would be expensive to replicate at home.
Warp materials
- 8/2 cotton
- 16/2 cotton
- 22/2 cottolin
- 33/2 cottolin
- 16/2 linen
- 60/2 lace linen
- 6/2 blanket wool
- 8/2 Möbelåtta wool
- 20/2 worsted wool
Classroom sessions
- Color theory
- Yarn sample cards to take home
- Fabric samples galore
- Designing your own gamps
Design your own
Wind warps for home:
Take advantage of our Yarn-in-a-Jars to aid designing your own gamp warps to take home. Picking your own color palette in a favorite yarn will make a resource you will use to plan your future projects.
When you make your warp here, no need to buy a full skein or tube of each color.
Schedule
Mon – Looms will be set up and ready to go. A color theory session will present a vocabulary to discuss colors as they materialize at the looms. Weaving will begin after a short orientation at each loom.
Tue – We will continue to weave and rotate to new projects as needed. With 6 students and 9 looms, students will not feel rushed to move on. Some projects will take more time than others.
Mon–Thu – Classroom sessions will build on each other through the week. A thorough exposure to numerous samples in a variety of structures and materials will facilitate and inspire designing your own personalized color gamps.
Fri – Finishing, discussion, and comparisons of all the different materials and colors.
Register now
Prerequisites: Significant weaving experience (feel free to inquire)
Max enrollment: 6
Location: Barn Studio
Course fee: $975 (includes all instruction and studio time, course handouts, lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Thu)
Materials fee: $95
Days offered: Five-day session, Mon–Fri
Schedule: Instruction time 9:00–noon and 1:30–4:00. Once a session begins, the Barn studio is available at all hours until it closes at noon on Friday. Checkout must be completed by noon on Friday.