Season 6 - Units, Blocks and Profiles

Season 6 - Units, Blocks and Profiles

We have another amazing year ahead of us, laying a solid foundation in regards to the words Units, Blocks and Profiles. We will continue with the explorations we started last year and add much more. This first episode will give you a good handle on the vocabulary. As with all my workshops, graphic design will lead the way for structure and colour to live on. Our profiles will define our graphics and we'll learn how to interpret them in many different weave structures. There are so many to explore...it was hard to choose, but I'm happy with what's coming up and we'll continue along this path into 2023.

So, grab your notebook and pencil, print off that big PDF, pour a cup of tea and enjoy the show.
Jane

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Season 6 - Units, Blocks and Profiles
  • Season 6 Episode 1 - Intro to Units Blocks and Profiles

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    All weave structures come with their own set of rules and characteristics. As weavers/designers, it is our job to understand those rules and identify their characteristics while we learn to bring our ideas into our own unique cloth. In Season 6 you’ll be designing your own projects from profiles ...

  • Season 6 Episode 2 - 8 Shaft Twill Blocks and Tie-up Quadrants

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    You can purchase the Twill Blocks and Tie-up Quadrant Kit right here and follow along while watching Jane:
    https://weaving.link/8-shaft-twill-blocks-kit

    There are so many possibilities on one warp if we know how to play with the tie-up box. I know some of you hate getting underneath your loom to...

  • Season 6 Episode 3 - Monk's Belt

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    You can purchase the Monk's Belt Kit right here:
    https://weaving.link/monk-s-belt

    Welcome back to another fun episode. These placemats were a blast to weave. I tried all kinds of things....bringing design ideas forward, always doing the overlay thing. I created solid weft lines by not treadling ...

  • Season 6 Episode 4 - Overshot

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    You can purchase the Overshot Kit right here:
    https://weaving.link/overshot-kit

    Finally.....we are getting to Overshot, the first weave structure I fell in love with way back in 1979. Everyone was weaving overshot in the '70's....."Keep Me Warm One Night" by Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burn...

  • Season 6 Episode 5 - Name Drafting Overshot

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    You can purchase Maiwa's Honest Yarn Linen, click this link https://weaving.link/maiwa
    What is Name Drafting?

    Well, basically you assign a harness on your loom to a letter in the alphabet, then you take words that have meaning to you, a name, a piece of poetry, a Haiku..... assign the letters in...

  • Season 6 Episode 6 - Crackle Weave

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    You can purchase the Crackle Weave Towel Kit right here:
    https://weaving.link/crackle-weave-kit

    Welcome back to S6 E6 where we take a good look at Crackle Weave. Crackle is quite amazing because it allows for very twilly graphics but it can also produce incredibly blocky designs. Our show and t...

  • Season 6 Episode 7 - M's and O's

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    You can purchase the M's and O's Kit right here:
    https://weaving.link/ms-and-os-sample-kit

    This month, we look at another traditional weave structure and learn about its massive potential in the contemporary weaving world. Again, I thank the weavers who have gone before and left us with such a b...

  • Season 6 Episode 8 - Summer and Winter

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    You can purchase the Summer and Winter Kit right here:
    https://weaving.link/summer-and-winter

    We have looked at so many powerful structures in the past few years, it is mind-boggling to consider just how much is possible on the 4 shaft loom by just moving threads around and playing with repetiti...

  • Season 6 Episode 9 - Block Analysis for 4+ shafts

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    You can purchase the Block Analysis Kit right here and follow along while watching Jane:
    https://weaving.link/block-analysis

    I hope you're hungry because you're going to be full by the end of this episode. You may want to eat it in small bits....that's always better for your blood sugar, so th...

  • Season 6 Episode 10 - Finale

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    Here we are at the end of another jam-packed season. When I look back at all we've learned this year I need to lie down and have a nap 🤣. I'm sure you do too. There was a lot of theory to take in but the best thing about the School of Weaving is that it is always there to review again and again ...