Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
Plain Weave Pattern 2
A course by Cassandra Sabo , Textile Designer and Hand Weaver
About the video: Plain Weave Pattern 2
Overview
“Now that the warp threads are set, let’s begin the plain weave by starting to construct the weft. Here, I will teach you how to achieve a balanced set. ”
In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Plain Weave Pattern 2, 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
“I'll show you plain weave first actually. So let me get... Just a bit of weaving. So it doesn't matter how long your first bit of yarn is. I'm just going to roughly, work out five or six widths times the width of the frame loop. what I'm going to do is just Put this in a little bundle to start for a moment. I'm going to use our needle. And this is how you tie on your yarn onto the needle. You want a long piece of string. Plain weave is simply lifting up the first row, odd numbers. So lifting up one, leaving down two, picking up three leaving down four. And working your way straight across. ...”
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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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