Contemporary Tapestry Weaving
Let’s Start Weaving: Learning Basic Techniques 2
A course by Marion Weymes , Textile Artist
About the video: Let’s Start Weaving: Learning Basic Techniques 2
Overview
“Let's continue weaving away by having a look at the basic techniques that will enable you to create a huge variety of different shapes. Remember that practice makes perfect, so take your time and don't despair if something doesn't go as planned. You will get there!”
In this video lesson Marion Weymes addresses the topic: Let’s Start Weaving: Learning Basic Techniques 2, 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
“Let's Start Weaving: Learning Basic Techniques I'll continue weaving away here by doing two rows on each warp thread to get my nice triangle and my nice diagonal line. I've come to the end of a warp thread here, so I'll push it through the back, and I'll start again with the same colour. You can see here that I made a mistake in the last row. In this row, I went under three warp threads but I should've gone over this one. I'll leave that in and weave over it, so you can see that it's not visible if you do make these mistakes. We're now seeing a bit more of the warp threads, but once I start...”
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Course summary for: Contemporary Tapestry Weaving
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Category
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Areas
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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