Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
Shaping and Split Technique
A course by Cassandra Sabo , Textile Designer and Hand Weaver
About the video: Shaping and Split Technique
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share some tips and tricks on how to shape your weaves using the split technique, a fundamental tapestry weaving technique.”
In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Shaping and Split Technique, 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
“In this lesson, we're going to be learning shaping and the split technique. So the first thing we need to learn and understand about shaping and using the specific split technique. is that essentially it's more of a tapestry type of technique, which means When you do tapestry weaving, you're drawing with yarn, you're creating kind of shapes and movement. kind of like pixels when you are looking at kind of digital photography or camera work in that sense. So for our Christian design, we are going to be following more the hand weaving technique where we're going to be working on rows of weavi...”
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Course summary for: Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
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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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