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Workshops

Warp for Jane Stafford workshop: plain weave with supplementary warp. Photo by Felicia Lo

Workshop March 19, 20, 21, 2009 | Jane will once again be coming to educate us, make us laugh and dazzle us with the clarity she brings to weaving. “Pushing the Boundaries of Plain Weave” will leave you wondering how you could ever have thought of plain weave as being so… well… ordinary.

Jane has always looked at plain weave as the most important architectural structure in hand weaving. You will come away from this workshop understanding that plain weave is anything but plain. Its enormous potential for creating “canvases” on which to design is often overlooked. Learn the various ways that plain weave is used structurally to create fabrics, including: Cramming and Denting, Denting, Colour and Weave, Warp Faced, Weft Faced, Supplementary Warp and Supplementary Weft. The samples are woven in luxurious yarns and create a stunning swatch collection.

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Weaving in Norway

November 19, 2008

In June I attended a two-week weaving course on a farm in the spectacular mountains of Telemark, Norway. The purpose of the course was to make the traditional Norwegian fulled cloth called Vadmal. The farm dates from at least the 18th century and is situated on a hillside with magnificent views and a fully equipped [...]

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Jane’s A-Comin’ in 2009

June 5, 2008

The incomparable Jane Stafford will be gracing our Guild once again in 2009. This time she’ll be presenting a 3-day workshop called “Pushing the Boundaries of Plain Weave”, an intermediate-level study of just how much we can do with our most basic weave structure. We haven’t got a date confirmed yet, but it will be [...]

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Fenn Lodge Spinning Retreat

April 6, 2008

The eleventh annual spinning retreat was held at Fenn Lodge April 4 – 6. Fenn Lodge is a beautiful 1908 heritage home on Hemlock Valley between Mission and Harrison Hot Springs. 15 members plus our host Diane Brady, enjoyed the wonderful surroundings, the gourmet food and the fibre activities. Additional people came for the day [...]

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