Contemporary Tapestry Weaving

Overview

“Building on these basic weaving techniques, we are now going to learn how to add horizontal and vertical stripes to our tapestry, and how to blend colours together to give an overlapping effect.”

In this video lesson Marion Weymes addresses the topic: Creating Overlapping Shapes 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Contemporary Tapestry Weaving. Bring color and warmth to any space with abstract tapestry designs using a frame loom and original weaving techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“Creating Overlapping Shapes In this lesson, we are going to build on the techniques that we saw in previous lessons. We'll use those to look at overlapping shapes and how we create a blended colour in between two different shapes. As you can see, I'm starting with a fresh piece of warp. Like we did before, I've put on my warp threads and I've added in my shed stick. There are different techniques that we can use when we want to create that illusion of blended and overlapping shapes. You can pick a colour that you'd get after blending paints. If you have a blue shape and a red shape, you can...”

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Course summary for: Contemporary Tapestry Weaving

• Level: Beginner
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• 4433 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (4h 0m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, Fiber Arts, Interior Decoration, Textile Design, Weaving