Season 4 - Twills on 4
Season 4 we dive into the world of twill structure and will overlay it with everything we learned in Colour & Design and Pushing the Boundaries of Plain Weave. This strong foundation will allow us to take 4 shaft Twills to a new level.
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Season 4 Episode 1 - Intro to Twill & Simple Two Stripe Sample
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You can purchase the Simple Two Stripe Sample Kit right here:
https://weaving.link/simple-two-stripe-kitIn this first episode of Season 4, we dive into Twills. We’ll learn how to weave twills on 4 shafts, how to do drawdowns, use different tie-ups (2/2 vs 3/1 vs 1/3), we’ll be using floating se...
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Season 4 Episode 2 - Fiberworks Windows
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You have a very special episode coming your way and I am so pleased to be able to offer this workshop to all members of our online guild. Bob Keates the co-creator of Fiberworks PCW has recorded his introductory workshop in-house at JST, just for you. You don’t have to travel to a conference to t...
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Season 4 Episode 2 - Fiberworks Mac
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You have a very special episode coming your way and I am so pleased to be able to offer this workshop to all members of our online guild. Bob Keates the co-creator of Fiberworks PCW has recorded his introductory workshop in-house at JST, just for you. You don’t have to travel to a conference to t...
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Season 4 Episode 3 - Small Threadings Twill Gamp
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You can purchase the Small Threadings Twill Gamp Kit right here:
https://weaving.link/small-threadings-twill-gamp-sample-kitWe are making the first of many gamps this year…this one is all about small twill threadings. In episodes to come we will use these threadings as shapes and we’ll blow em ...
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Season 4 Episode 4 - Point Twill Gamp
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You can purchase the Point Twill Gamp Sample Kit right here:
https://weaving.link/point-twill-gamp-sample-kitThings we will learn:
-How to make diamonds larger and larger on a 4 shaft loom
-How to use ideas from Colour & Weave to come up with treadling sequences
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Season 4 Episode 5 - Large Threadings Twill Gamp
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You can purchase the Large Threadings Twill Gamp Sample Kit right here:
https://weaving.link/large-threadings-twill-gamp-sample-kitIn Episode 5 we look at large threadings. When these threadings are repeated, they create stunning results. To date we have looked at small threadings as base shape...
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Season 4 Episode 6 - Colour & Weave Meets Twill
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You can purchase the Colour & Weave Meets Twill Sample Kit right here:
https://weaving.link/colour-weave-meets-twill-sample-kitWhat would a year of weaving be without more Colour and Weave techniques. It doesn’t just belong to Plain Weave…we overlay it on twills with the addition of Basket Wea...
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Season 4 Episode 7 - Twill & Basket Weave go on a Date
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You can purchase the Twill & Basket Weave Sample Kit right here:
https://weaving.link/twills-and-basket-weave-sample-kitIn this episode we learn to insert Basket Weave into twill threadings to create vertical division of space. Of course once they are in the threading we can also have horizonta...
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Season 4 Episode 8 - Shadow Weave
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You can purchase the Shadow Weave Sample Kit right here:
https://weaving.link/shawdow-weave-twill-sample-kitTime for another fun episode and this one has lots of colour. The bright joyful colours that were used in Fibonacci w/Gradation aka Parrot S2, E5 have leapt forward onto our Shadow Weave ...
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Season 4 Episode 9 - Weft Faced Twills
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It’s time for our last sample of the year and this time I overlay all the twill theory that we’ve been studying throughout the year on an open linen warp with wool weft, to create amazing weft-faced fabric.
As always there is so much to learn, so many ways to play at the loom, so many ways to lo...
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Season 4 Episode 10 - Grand Finale
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I can’t quite believe that we’re about to wrap up the 2020’s programme. What a year! Who knew there was so much to learn about 4 shaft twills? All 9 episodes can be revisited again and again to be used as springboards for your original designs. That is the best part of learning all this theory, i...