Category: Workshops

Our first Spring workshop was filled with yarny ideas into the woven Saori cloth. A good omen for the new season of weaving. I find that weaving interest is strongest in Winter, when we’re looking to keep warm and sometimes inside more, then waning towards Summer when the water, swimming and keeping cool is the…

The Kyogle/Casino group was a joy to have in the studio. As they were already established weavers they had a weavers’ eye to their work. Kyogle district is about five hours away and their weekend weaving trip produced wonderful weaves. I hope their time here will trigger an explosion of handwoven textiles when they get…

Another very full and weaverly weekend workshop has come and gone in the studio. I’m not sure where to begin but provide the evidence here in photos which never really do the weekend full justice. It was an interstate affair with Victorians, a Queenslander, a semi local and a local. Weavers are prepared to travel…

June and July seem to be busy workshop months. It is quiet in Old Bar and the sun is so warming and nice. My first weekend workshop here in June has concluded and I’m looking forward to the next one on the weekend. Four weavers in the studio this weekend. All such totally different textiles.…

I had a busy open studio for April which filled with delightful people. Here below Dominique looks a bit serious because she is contending with the Rail Reed…a very interesting tool on our looms. It seems a ‘wacky’ tool but very easy to use. Dominique is an avid local Saori weaver and spent the morning…

Another fantastic workshop day with the indefatigable Crossing Threads duo of Kass and Lauren. Today was about the warp. How to warp, using the Kenzo warping system and how to modify the warp for different outcomes. Crossing Threads have been exploring and extending their weave practice into Saori over the past few months. So they…