25329 Tapestry 101: The Woven Image
Class | Available
Registration Deadline: 8/27
Using a simple loom and beautiful yarns, try your hand at the ancient techniques of tapestry weaving to create an image in woven cloth. The word “tapestry” means something quite specific to a weaver…a design or image woven directly into the cloth using some specialized techniques to create lines and shapes, designs and pictures. Your hands are the tools that weave together strong warps with brightly colored wefts. A small, prepared, portable loom will be provided so you can begin weaving at our first class. You’ll try a series of techniques to create a small sampler of color and methods. Then you are ready to move on to begin a design of your own, putting those techniques into practice. Small portable looms will be provided, and are available for purchase for an additional $15.
AGE: Teens & adults
Mary Ann Proia
I began playing with fibers as a child. I learned to crochet from my grandmother and to sew from my mother. I remember stitching doll clothes together by manually running my mother’s sewing machine. (I was too short to reach the pedal.) Later, when I entered Nazareth college for Art, I discovered weaving and dyeing and have been at it ever since. Along the way, I have studied with Susan Rowley, Michele Wipplinger, Kathy Hattori, as well as other great weavers and dyers.
I have shown my work here in Rochester, Seattle, Las Vegas, Colorado, and even Italy. I have taught weaving in Antigua with partners of the Americas. I recently receive the HGA Certificate Of Excellence in Dyeing.
I enjoy passing on the knowledge I’ve learned to students then watching them take it and make it their own.