Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
Weaving the Design 2
A course by Cassandra Sabo , Textile Designer and Hand Weaver
About the video: Weaving the Design 2
Overview
“In this lesson, you will discover how to prepare your yarns. I will show you how to wind them onto your tools from either the yarn cake or cone. ”
In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Weaving the Design 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
“So we also need now to look at the yarns that we have and prepare them so that we're starting to weave. We're going to be winding them onto some of the tools. Start with my shuttle. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to put some yarn on our shuttle Now I've got yarn cakes here. And as you can see, I was using the yarn cakes to pull from the center so that your ball doesn't roll all around. but actually in my studio, I tend to prefer to work with cones. So I'm going to show you how you wind your yarns off the cones, but if you're working from yarn cakes, what you would do is...”
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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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