TABLET WEAVING WITH INGE DAM

CARD WOVEN EMBELLISHMED  FABRIC WEAVING 

with Inge Dam

August 10-13 2015

 Inge Dam is known for her meticulously crafted and artistically hand dyed woven yardages with card woven embellishment inserts,  from which she creates luxurious  garments . She has garnered many awards for her weaving and has taught extensively, in particular throughout the United States, including for many Convergence conferences, organized by the Handweavers Guild of America. She has recently authored a book on her techniques, Tablet-Woven Accents for Designer Fabrics Contemporary Uses for Ancient Techniques which you can purchase from her at any time.


Through her studies of ancient textiles Inge became fascinated with the concept of weaving tablet woven borders jointly with a piece of fabric on the loom. This technique was used on many of the ancient garments she  studied. Students will be introduced to this type of weaving through a brief introduction to its history and hands on practice. They will set up a loom with a simple weave structure and learn how to make a tablet warp and how to arrange it beside the fabric warp so the border and the fabric can be woven together using only one shuttle, rather than attached separately. The students will also be taught how to avoid tension problems between the border warp and the fabric warp and how to accommodate for the differences in the take up of the two weaves. A simple tablet weaving technique will be employed and the students will learn how to add embellishments to the tablet woven border, such as tassels, twining, beads at the edges and on the surface, braiding overlay, wrapped warp ends, loops, Ghiordes knots, and brocading.

Level of expertise : participants should know how to weave plain weave and 4-shaft straight twill.
Location: Burr House, 530 Carville Road, Richmond Hill
Time: 10am – 4pm
Maximum: 12
RSVP by July 31 2015
Cost: $350 plus $2 material fee

This workshop is a great opportunity to study with someone who is an internationally respected weaver which you should take advantage of. To take her courses in the US would cost you 10 times as much, what with the exchange rates, accommodation and transportation!

Direct questions to Line Dufour   linedufour.tapestry@gmail.com

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