Intermediate Weaving : Our Swedish Weaving Heritage

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Learn about Swedish Weaving in this Round Robin workshop. You will weave a variety of traditional Swedish fabric samples suitable for tablecloths, runners, rugs, towels, curtains, and bedspreads. Some of the samples are turned rosepath, lace, plain weave checks, rep, a Swedish snowflake, fancy twills, and honeycomb, to name a few. Setts range from 8 epi (Krokbragd) to 80 epi (40 doubled ends for rep.) Students will weave with cottons and some linen and wool. You will need to bring your pre-warped floor or table loom to the MAG for this workshop, as well as your lunch and beverages. (A refrigerator and microwave are available to use.)

MATERIAL PACKET
Materials fee includes:

• Notebook with the drafts, treadlings, extensive bibliography, notes

• Pre-wound warp

• Pre-wound bobbins required for draft weft to make samples before workshop

• All the warp and weft threads

• Pre-workshop packets will be shipped to the MAG and distributed prior to the workshop

INSTRUCTOR
Deborah (Debbie) Todhunter has been teaching weaving workshops in the Southeast for over 12 years on a diverse range of topics: Shadow Weave, the Miniature Overshot of Estes and Hayes, Swedish structures, and checked fabrics. She also knits, tats, and makes bobbin lace -- interests that all started at a young age -- and spinning came later! Debbie enjoys researching structures, ferreting out obscure resources, and sharing the knowledge with her students.

LOOMS
When you register, indicate what brand you loom is, width & how many shafts. Please email us at murrayartguild@gmail.com if you need to use a MAG loom. This is a round robin, so everyone will get a change on each loom, but you will be warping your “own” loom before class begins.