Category: Olds College
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Value
Some examples of student learning exercises related to value. If someone doesn’t have an instinctive sense of how to work with colour the eye can be trained by such exercises, looking at how the value of a hue can be changed, and how different values play together. A couple of mantras are: White dilutes.…
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Day Two
Work is well underway at the closing of day two. I talk a lot, mainly because there is so much to say. Hopefully everyone will be able to get their class work done in spite of me. The room is cosy, and the weather has been on the cooler side so staying indoors to…
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It’s Really Real!
When I originally talked to the college about having the master weaver class here in Prince George, it was kind of a huge gamble – we are just a day’s drive from Olds College and there is no Fibre Week – it is just 6 days of intensive study. Would we get enough people? Would…
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Learning
One of the lessons in Level one of the Olds program is to look at colour value. As such, it is sometimes hard for people to distinguish the difference in value between shades of the same colour. One nifty way to help see value differences is to render them in black and white. I took…
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Olds College Master Weaving Program
We need one more student for the Olds Master Weaving program here in Prince George. There are some advantages to taking the class here – no distractions, six days (rather than five) of intensive class work. Looms provided (unless you want to bring your own table loom), small class, lots of attention from the instructor…
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Olds College Master Weaving Program
We need one more student for the Olds Master Weaving program here in Prince George. There are some advantages to taking the class here – no distractions, six days (rather than five) of intensive class work. Looms provided (unless you want to bring your own table loom), small class, lots of attention from the instructor…
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Olds College Master Weaving Program
We need one more student for the Olds Master Weaving program here in Prince George. There are some advantages to taking the class here – no distractions, six days (rather than five) of intensive class work. Looms provided (unless you want to bring your own table loom), small class, lots of attention from the instructor…
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Satellite Program Live!
*New* Off Campus Offerings! On a trial basis, Olds College is offering Level 1 of the Master Weaver program off campus. Currently, we have two locations: The first is at the Yadkin Valley Fibre Room, in Yadkinville, NC. May 2 – 6, 2016. See their website for details and registrations. Jean Curry will be instructing this initial offering.…
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Organic vs Linear Learning
The box is definitely getting emptier and it is getting more…challenging to come up with colour combinations I find pleasing in sufficient quantity. But I am nearly finished that last cone of cotton slub/linen for weft. Today I got back to The Book and generated another 2000 or so words…and lots of drafts for…
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Satellite Launch!
Got word yesterday that the satellite weaving program has been approved for Prince George, BC May 21-26, 2016. Registration will begin in the new year, perhaps as soon as the end of the first full week of the new school year (January 8 or so). Class will begin on the Saturday morning, run through the…