Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories

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

“Weaving the Design We also need now to look at the yarns that we have and prepare them so that we start to weave. We're going to be winding them onto the tools. Start with my shuttle. The first thing we're going to do is put some yarn on our shuttle. I've got yarn cakes here. As you can see, I was using the yarn cakes to pull from the centre so that your ball doesn't roll all around. Actually, in my studio, I tend to prefer to work with cones. I'm going to show you how you wind your yarns off the cones. If you're working from yarn cakes, what you would do is you would be pulling from the ce...”

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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