Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
Weaving the Design 4
A course by Cassandra Sabo , Textile Designer and Hand Weaver
About the video: Weaving the Design 4
Overview
“At this stage, I recommend keeping your visual references handy as you start to weave your design. In this lesson, I will start my woven cushion by first using the soumak technique and then incorporating my rove. ”
In this video lesson Cassandra Sabo addresses the topic: Weaving the Design 4, 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 In my design, I wanted to start first with the dark blue roving and then the light blue, and each of these was framed by a different colour. I'm still working, I haven't finished my cake, so I was trying to go for the yarns I've started. We need to measure out what a row of soumak is going to do. I'm going to give it a slightly healthy two and a half. There's one. There's two. Again, there's roughly the half. Break that yarn. We'll need that in a moment. I've said I'm going to have one row of soumak with the Kilcarra Tweed. Now you could start from the left or the right. ...”
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Course summary for: Hand-Weaving Techniques: Design Textile Accessories
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Category
Craft -
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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