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Cancelled per email from Catherine Camp 4/18/22-CR

Expand your weaving skills and make two layers in your cloth on the rigid heddle loom. While weaving, the layers can be connected in various ways to make cloth twice the width of your loom, create tubes, or pockets.

You will make a sampler while exploring this process. During the workshop you will learn to thread the loom using two heddles and weave the layers in various ways. This workshop is for students that have some experience with the rigid heddle and want to move on to the next level.

Students will warp the looms and learn how to set up and thread both heddles to enable the double heddle weaving. Then you will weave cloth at double the set of the heddle used and create various beautiful patterns that the extra heddle makes possible. While working these beautiful patterns, you will practice manipulating the two heddles.  Then, you will learn how to magically create two layers of cloth, each a different color, and discover how to make pockets or tubes in the woven cloth.

Supplies to bring:   Looms with at least an 8” weaving width that is able to accommodate 2 heddles, two 7.5 or 8 dent reeds 4 pick up sticks, 2 shuttles (with bobbins), 600 yards each of 2 contrasting colors of about sport or dk weight yarn,  scissors, tape measure, tapestry needle, cardboard tube from inside a paper towel roll, 2 brown paper grocery bags, 30 yards waste yarn. Yarn should be strong, not stretchy, at least 2 ply, not hairy and wound into balls prior to class.

Details:

• Please review our safety protocols before registering. BARN wide safety protocols can be found here. Fiber Studio specific safety protocols can be found here.
• Skill Level:  Intermediate
• Ages 14+ Welcome.
• Tuition assistance is available. Click here to fill out our simple form.  
  
  

Instructor Bio:

Deborah Jarchow is a full-time weaver and artist who teaches and lectures on fiber arts, creates and sells wearable art, and exhibits her work at galleries and museums across the United States. Her commissioned pieces are held by churches as well as in many private collections. Deborah loves helping people discover the joy of weaving and during the past several years, has focused her teaching mainly on rigid heddle looms.  Until recently, she traveled extensively to share her weaving enthusiasm and expertise.  She is known as a generous teacher who makes weaving accessible and exciting to students of all levels.