Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories

Overview

“Once your equipment and materials are ready, you will need to add in a ‘stopper yarn’. In this lesson, I will illustrate how to do this. Then, I will dive into the first inch of weaving! ”

In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Weaving the Design 3, 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 The first thing we need to do is we need to set up what I call a stopper yarn. Now you may or may not find this useful because when you're weaving, I already explained that we're going to start weaving from bottom to top, and we want to leave some room as we get nearer the top for our tools to fit. Now I generally suggest with beginners not to weave straight from the bottom, because when you go to remove your work from the loom, you will find that if you don't have a lot of room to manoeuvre with the ends of your warp threads, you'll end up not being able to knot it and t...”

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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