Hand Weaving Techniques for Beginners
Sketching Out Your Design
A course by Lucy Rowan , Fiber Artist and Weaver
About the video: Sketching Out Your Design
Overview
“Once you have created your mood board it's time to sketch out your design. In this lesson, we will draw the design you want to create.”
In this video lesson Lucy Rowan addresses the topic: Sketching Out Your Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Hand Weaving Techniques for Beginners . Learn how to weave home decorations by exploring different colors, yarns and textures.
Partial transcription of the video
“Sketching Out Your Design In this lesson I want to show you how to design your weave. Now we have our mood board, we'll sketch out our design. The materials you will need are your mood board, a blank piece of paper, a marker pen, some brush pens, pencil, some coloured pencils, and some Posca pens. The pens I've got are some brush pens and I like using them because they're easy to create a nice, free sketch. Let's get started. Using your marker pen, I often like to start by drawing the dowel first, which is what we'll be hanging our weave from. This is just a really loose sketch. It'll be ro...”
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Course summary for: Hand Weaving Techniques for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Decoration, Fiber Arts, Textile Design, Weaving

Lucy Rowan
A course by Lucy Rowan
Lucy is a Brighton-based fiber artist specialized in weaving and punch needle embroidery. She is completely self-taught and comes from a creative family that has always encouraged her to create. Her father, a self-taught carpenter, builds the looms Lucy uses to teach workshops across the UK.
In addition to her craft work and workshops, she has written tutorials for magazines as well as her own craft books. She has done various commissioned, and has been featured in Mollie Makers Magazine. She also runs her own online shop, Peas and Needles.
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