Mönster Parti
Unlocking the secrets of block patterns and profile drafts
Instructor: Becky Ashenden & Eva Gaultney
Dates offered 2025: Apr 28 – May 2
Take your weaving exploration and design to a whole new level by learning to use a single profile draft for many different weave structures. Our woven projects and daily theory lessons will expose you to the endless variations that become possible when you change the profile tie-up within any one weave structure.
The structures
- myggtjäll
- half satin
- sword damask
- taqueté
- rep
- shadow weave
- double weave
The tie-ups
- countermarch
- damask pulleys
- skeleton tie-up
- counterbalance
Schedule
Monday morning will be spent threading, sleying, and tying up some of our projects allowing students to gain familiarity with the structures. The other looms will already be threaded and tied up before you get here to maximize your time. Once we get everything up and running, we will start rotation on the looms giving everyone equal opportunity in each project.
Daily theory lessons will focus on analyzing profile drafts and profile tie-ups. Exercises in creating threadings, treadlings, and tie-ups for different structures using one profile draft will give you the confidence to create your own unique patterns, or adapt existing patterns to other structures.
We will explore how changing the profile tie-up can produce endless design variations. You will learn how to derive tie-ups from profile tie-ups for the weave structures used in class, and get plenty of practice charting them out.
In Swedish, a mönster is a pattern, and a parti is a block. If you want there to be monsters too, you may need to bring your own.
Prerequisites: Vävstuga Basics (Why does everyone need Basics?)
Max enrollment: 6
Location: Farmhouse
Course fee: $1100 (includes all instruction and studio time, course handouts, lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Thu)
Materials fee: $75
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. Exception: on the last day, instruction and Barn access end at noon, and checkout must be completed by 3:00.