Refresher for Dressing your Loom
What you will learn:
- How to dress the loom on your own with even tension.
- An easy and quick way to slay the reed.
- Various ways to close the gap on your warp
What you will get:
- Expert skills-based tuition, with hands-on experience.
What to bring:
- Student to bring their own warp
- Student to bring functional loom, ready to be dressed with warp ie, with suitable reed, front and back apron rods lease / warp sticks
- Student to bring material for separating warp on back beam, eg medium to heavy weight paper, warping strips, etc.
- Students to bring own threading hook, reed hook, paper, pen /pencil, scissors stick or boat shuttles and small amount of weft yarn
Details
You will learn
- • How to wind a warp on a vertical and horizontal warping mill,
- • How to dress the floor/table loom on your own
- • How to dress the loom without a raddle & How to dress the loom with more than one warp
You will get
- • Expert skills-based tuition, with a combination of demonstrations and hands-on experience.
- • Students can bring their own looms and yarn to try out a small sample of the various techniques demonstrated.
- • A set of notes for class and future reference
Appropriate for
Those who have the basic understanding of how to wind a warp, and dress their own loom but would like to expand on the techniques to suit different situations.
Preparation
What to bring
- • Student to bring their own loom and yarn if they want to try techniques demonstrated in class.
- • Notebook, scissors, tape measure, ruler, and calculator.
What to wear
Comfortable clothing
Your Teacher
Amanda has experience with tutoring at HWSGY in Introduction to 4 shaft course, Summer School program, John Noble Workshops. She has been weaving since 2010 in both functional and exhibition weaving.
Organized by
Handweavers & Spinners Guild of Victoria
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Cancellations & Refunds
If the organiser cancels the class:
You are entitled to a full refund.
If you can't attend the class:
You’re welcome to send someone in your place.
OR
- A refund can be requested 7 days before class starts. Free of charge.
- A transfer can be requested 7 days before the class starts. Free of charge.
No changes will be allowed after these times.
We recommend the refund upgrade option upon checkout in case you’re not able to attend the class. Learn more about refund upgrade option.
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