Enjoy festive camaraderie, delve into your own personal project
Instructors: Becky Ashenden & Eva Gaultney
Dates offered 2023: Jul 24–28
Check our Calendar if you’re curious about other classes held concurrently.
Rep weave decorates many Swedish homes in the form of runners, placemats, and rugs. Its warp-faced feature gives it a bold and crisp appearance. Based on the plain weave structure, the techniques are varied and plentiful. Choose your main project from our plentiful assortment of weaving levels from 2 to 10 treadles. Three extra projects expand your knowledge and experience.
Projects
On your own loom:
- You choose your warp
Share looms:
- Variations on 4 shafts
- Sparse & dense
- Straw baking mat
Choose your warp here:
Theory & drafting
- Warp-faced
- Open rep
- Counterbalance vs. countermarch
- Multiple blocks
- Profile drafts
Designing
- Paper strips
- Cut & glue
- Wrappings
- Colored pencils
- Color profiles
Materials & setts
- 8/2 cotton
- 16/2 cotton
- Cottolin
- String yarn
- Rags
- Straw
More details
Monday everyone will settle in at their own loom and start threading heddles.
Tuesday morning could be weaving time, depending on the size and scope of your chosen project.
Wednesday we will start rotating to the extra warps, which will be set up ahead of time.
Daily classroom sessions will build on each other through the week, providing a thorough exposure to many examples, techniques, materials, and designs.
bumblebee, side A
bumblebee, side B
2 blocks – 2 treadles
planets – 8 shafts/treadles
4 shafts/blocks/treadles
4 shafts/blocks/treadles
4 blocks – 8 shafts/treadles
6 blocks – 6 shafts/treadles
dragonflies – 10 shafts
4 blocks – 4 shafts/treadles
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Prerequisites: Vävstuga Basics (Why does everyone need Basics?)
Max enrollment: 6
Course fee: $950 (includes all instruction and studio time, course handouts, lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Thu)
Materials fee: $75
Days offered: Five-day session, Monday–Friday
Schedule: Instruction time 9:00–noon and 1:30–4:00. Exceptions: on the last day, instruction ends at noon, and checkout must be completed by 3:00. Once a session begins, the Barn studio is available at all hours.