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Weaving - Make a Wall Hanging using Naturally Dyed Yarn
Weave your own beautiful wall hanging with naturally dyed yarn. Create your own unique woven wall hanging using traditional weaving and tapestry techniques and yarns hand dyed with foraged native Australian plants.
Teacher: Belinda Evans
Workshop Duration: Full Day
Description: In this day long workshop you'll learn how to create your own unique wall hanging, focusing on freestyle tapestry weaving techniques. You will learn about the different types of weaving equipment, how to warp a loom and create lines, shapes, patterns and textures.
You'll start by going through the different tapestry weaving equipment and terminology, and move on to learning how to set up your loom to get the best results.
Then, using beautiful Australian yarns that have been hand dyed using foraged native Australian plants, you'll use tapestry weaving techniques to create your own wall hanging.
You'll have time to work on your own piece, and there will be time to get one on one assistance with your piece as you need it.
Materials: There will be a materials cost of $35.The materials kit will include a quality wooden weaving loom and accessories (to take home). Naturally dyed yarn and other weaving materials will be supplied on the day.
Optional: bring your own inspiration material (artworks, photograph, flora), and your own special yarns to weave with.
Takeaway: At the end you'll have your own wall hanging, a wooden loom, weaving accessories and beginner's weaving guide so that you can continue to weave many more pieces.
Level: Beginners. No prior knowledge is needed for this class.
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.