Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
Choosing Your Weaving Tools and Equipment
A course by Cassandra Sabo , Textile Designer and Hand Weaver
About the video: Choosing Your Weaving Tools and Equipment
Overview
“Having the right equipment not only makes it more enjoyable to weave but can speed up the process and save you time. In this lesson, I will give you an overview of the tools you will need. You will learn what's available on the market and what to look out for when sourcing and weaving with your tools.”
In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Choosing Your Weaving Tools and Equipment, 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
“Choosing Your Weaving Tools and Equipment In this lesson, I'll help you choose your weaving tools and equipment so you'll be comfortable when weaving, and also, so that you choose the best tool for the job. On the table in front of me, I have a selection of tools that I would like to use for creating this cushion. It's a selection of weaving tools that I use every day, but there will be some that you may find new and you may not have used before. I'm going to run through them one by one to tell you more about them. The first one we have here at the top is a shed stick. Now the shed is the s...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
-
Category
Craft -
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.
- 100% positive reviews (65)
- 2,324 students
- 24 lessons (5h 29m)
- 24 additional resources (12 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English, Spanish
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
