Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
Sewing the Cushion by Hand
A course by Cassandra Sabo , Textile Designer and Hand Weaver
About the video: Sewing the Cushion by Hand
Overview
“Now it’s time to unite the back and front panels. You will learn how to hand sew your three woven pieces together to create a nice, finished edge. Remember to have the knots facing in!”
In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Sewing the Cushion by Hand, 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, I'll be showing you how to sew your cushion together. So what I have here in front of me are the two sides of your woven project. We have the front face and we have the two samples that we've created on the reverse. We have a measuring tape just to make sure that we've got the right size. I've got a crochet hook to help us tie any loose ends. We have a Uh, tapestry needle to sew the cushion together. We have two different colors or two different bunches of the warp thread that we're going to be using. That was actually the bits that we removed from the warp. So I've just put...”
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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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