Ends & Picks » woven shibori http://www.endsandpicks.com Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:08:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Woven Shibori http://www.endsandpicks.com/2010/06/12/woven-shibori/ http://www.endsandpicks.com/2010/06/12/woven-shibori/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:42:58 +0000 Melissa http://www.endsandpicks.com/?p=1128 Throughout the month of May, my friend Elisa and I spent our Saturdays at the Weaver’s Guild taking a wonderful class on woven shibori taught by Traudi Bestler.  Woven shibori was developed by Catharine Ellis and it was her book, Woven Shibori, that we worked from throughout the class.

The first two days of class we planned, calculated, wound, warped and started weaving our projects.  It was WONDERFUL being back in a weaving studio and even though I was pretty rusty with all my preliminary yardage calculations (as exhibited by the extra long warp I ended up with – oops!)

The third class we spent in the Dye Lab and since I ended up with two pieces of fabric, I decided to immersion dye one and hand paint the other.  The fourth class we all came together for show and tell!

Unfortunately, the yarn Elisa and I wove with had a much higher twist than our classmates so we didn’t get the high contrast that others got.

Even so, I’m quite pleased with the results!

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