Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories

Overview

“To complete this unit, you will learn one final technique: the Soumak! This is a contemporary weaving technique that creates wonderful texture, as the pattern has a braided effect. I will model it using three different yarns of varying degrees of thickness. ”

In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Soumak 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

“Soumak Technique In this lesson, I'm going to show you the soumak technique. For the soumak technique, we'll work on the existing setup we've been working on for all our patterns and techniques, so everything is set up the same way. We're going to be using three different yarns, one, two, three, to show you the different effects depending on how thick your yarn is. Of course, it still relates to the set that we've got for our work. I'm going to start with a thick one, use three different colours, and start with some wool roving. I'm using this one specifically because we're going to use a f...”

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Course summary for: Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories

• Level: Beginner
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• 2295 students
• 5 units
• 24 lessons (5h 29m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Decoration, Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Textile Design, Weaving