Weaving Pattern Designs on a Frame Loom

Scaling a Pattern for Larger Looms

A course by Rachel Snack , Textile Artist

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937 students

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About the video: Scaling a Pattern for Larger Looms

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll explain how to use patterns for larger weavings on bigger looms. ”

In this video lesson Rachel Snack addresses the topic: Scaling a Pattern for Larger Looms, which is part of the Domestika online course: Weaving Pattern Designs on a Frame Loom. Learn the intricate art of weaving patterns using a frame loom to create beautiful designs for your final project.

Partial transcription of the video

“So in this lesson, we're going to talk about how to scale a pattern for a larger loom. Sometimes if you use a pattern that was designed for a smaller loom and you put it on a larger loom, the pattern will look teeny tiny because the scale of the weaving has gone up drastically. So using this existing pattern, I'm going to show you how you can scale the pattern for different size weavings. So this is the original pattern, and this would be the right scale for the loom that we're currently working on. But if we wanted to take this pattern and amplify it for a larger loom, make it bigger, What...”

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Course summary for: Weaving Pattern Designs on a Frame Loom

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (12)
937 students
4 units
15 lessons (1h 32m)
5 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Fiber Arts, Interactive Design, Pattern Design, Weaving

Rachel Snack

A course by Rachel Snack

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Textile Artist

Rachel Snack is a weaver, educator and textile artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Fiber & Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her Master of Science in Textile Design from Philadelphia University.

Rachel is the founder of Weaver House, a textile studio, yarn shop and weaving school dedicated to preserving craft tradition through hand-making and weaving education.

Rachel has conserved objects for exhibitions at The National Constitution Center, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, The NY Public Library and The Museum of Arts and Design. She has exhibited her work internationally, and taught courses on weaving and fiber dyeing to hundreds of students. She has been an artist-in-residence at T.E.X.E.R.E in Mexico, The Burren College of Art in Ireland, and Awamaki in Peru.