Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
Influences
A course by Cassandra Sabo , Textile Designer and Hand Weaver
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Here, I will share some of the inspirations that ignited my love of weaving. You will learn the influences that helped to develop my weaving skills, informed my choice of weaving materials, and inspired my design aesthetic.”
In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories. Learn to create richly textured and sustainable textile pieces using a variety of weaving techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'm going to be showing you my influences. Each of the following influences resonate with me because they have structure, experimentation, or materiality at their core. This book is called "500 Baskets" and it's one of my earliest influences when I was at university. This book shows lots of different structures and different forms that I really loved, including the metal and wire and working with different materials. Structure was also really important, so how you create three dimensional forms. This, for me, was a really nice representation of how I could sew a f...”
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Course summary for: Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
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Category
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Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Decoration, Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Textile Design, Weaving
Cassandra Sabo
A course by Cassandra Sabo
Cassandra Sabo is a textile designer and weaver from Montreal, Canada. She initially moved to London to pursue a degree in textile design at Central Saint Martins, and eventually moved to Oxford with her husband and children, and founded The Oxford Weaving Studio.
From her studio, she shares her love and knowledge of weaving and the broader fiber arts with her community. Cassandra also researched, designed and developed The Oxford Frame Loom, a new type of frame loom that aims to bridge the gap between hand-weaving and tapestry weaving, enabling weavers of all levels to discover and explore this craft in new ways.
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