Category: Olds College master weaving
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Learning Opportunities
There has been a bit of upheaval in the weaving community since Olds College decided to terminate their master weaver and spinner programs. I hesitated to comment, but now that the dust has settled somewhat, I thought it might be time to review what is available for teaching/testing programs. Olds College offered a college…
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Learning Opportunities
There has been a bit of upheaval in the weaving community since Olds College decided to terminate their master weaver and spinner programs. I hesitated to comment, but now that the dust has settled somewhat, I thought it might be time to review what is available for teaching/testing programs. Olds College offered a college…
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Learning Opportunities
There has been a bit of upheaval in the weaving community since Olds College decided to terminate their master weaver and spinner programs. I hesitated to comment, but now that the dust has settled somewhat, I thought it might be time to review what is available for teaching/testing programs. Olds College offered a college…
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Road Trip
getting the kitchen stuff for the townhouse ready – cooking utensils, food, etc. Yes, the stack of plastic bins is full of food and kitchen things Class supplies and equipment – yes, everything in this photo except the loom and the spool rack is going into the back of the van Getting ready to…
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Onwards.
Aware of (ahem) looming deadlines, I checked the Olds College website this morning and levels 1, 2 and 3 of the master weaver program next month are confirmed. So now I need to work out how much (more) yarn I have to order. It has been my practice to take the skeins of wool…
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Samples? Check!
Single strand of Harrisville yarn GIST Array woven, up close and personal Scarf woven from GIST Array Today was a bitty day. A bit of this, a bit of that… One of the things I wanted to do was install my digital microscope onto my new laptop, but the microscope only had a CD…
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Mastery
GCW Master Weaver Certificate holders and their monograph topics: 1955 Mary Black: Tartans and Mary Sandin: Linen 1958 Nell Steedsman: Two Frame weaving 1959 Grace McDowell: Box Loom Weaving 1973 Adrienne Whitelaw: Ceinture Fleché 1975 Mary Andrews: Fundamentals of Weaving 1976 Sandra Feenstra: Double Weaves and Dini Moes: …
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Spark to a Flame
I have always believed that it is better build something than tear something down. And if you need to tear something down, have a plan to re-build – better than it was before. The pandemic has required us to shutter so many aspects of our lives. There has been deep disappointment in having to…
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Spark to a Flame
I have always believed that it is better build something than tear something down. And if you need to tear something down, have a plan to re-build – better than it was before. The pandemic has required us to shutter so many aspects of our lives. There has been deep disappointment in having to…
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Weaving Police
Craft fair booth People want definitive answers to technical questions. It was one of the things I had to accept while learning how to weave – it all depends. In many cases my weaving instructor was almost as inexperienced as her students, but her approach to teaching was to tell us to go look it…