Contemporary Tapestry Weaving
Creating Overlapping Shapes 1
A course by Marion Weymes , Textile Artist
About the video: Creating Overlapping Shapes 1
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
“So in this lesson, we are going to build on the techniques that we learned in previous lessons. And we're going to use those to look at overlapping shapes and how we create that nice blended color in between two different shapes. So you can see here that I'm starting with a fresh piece of work. Just the same way as we did before, I've put on my warp threads and I've added in my shed stick. There's a couple of different techniques that we can use when we want to create that illusion of blended and overlapping shapes. So you can either pick a color that might be the color that would occur if ...”
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Course summary for: Contemporary Tapestry Weaving
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Arts & Crafts, Fiber Arts, Interior Decoration, Textile Design, Weaving

Marion Weymes
A course by Marion Weymes
Marion Weymes is a textile artist and project manager from Dublin, Ireland, who discovered her love for textile art after searching for a new creative project to disconnect from screens and technology. What started as a therapeutic hobby quickly became a newfound passion. She is a self-taught artist who found her own style through trial and error experimentation.
Today, Marion creates large art pieces that she sells on her website and shares on her Instagram account.
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