Weaving Courses with Janet Phillips
One to four- day weaving courses are held throughout the year in Janet's own studio in Nether Stowey, Somerset.
Subjects that can be studied include:
4-Shaft Fabric Design Structures
- Introduction to Weaving - weave a cushion cover in a day.
- Summer and Winter
- Lace Weaves
- Shadow Weave
- Double Cloth
- Twills for Fabrics
- M & O's
- Crackle
- Honeycomb
- Overshot
- Bedford Cord
- Theo Moorman technique
- Colour & Weave Effect
- Shadow Weave
- Collapse Weave
- Wavy Twills
- Shibori on the Loom
- Warp Repp
- Weaving Pleats
- Make a warp
- Dress a loom
- Criteria for Design
8-Shaft Fabric Design Structures:
- 8 shaft Twills
- Lace Weaves
- Network Drafting
- Double Cloth
- Stitched Double cloth
- Deflected Double Cloth
- Block Weaves
- Summer and Winter
- Satin and Sateen
- Shadow Weave
- Bold Colour & Weave Effect
- Shrepp and Rib
- Warp Repp
- Echo Twill
- Diversified Plain Weave
- Crackle
Dyeing
- Dyeing with Acid Dyes
- Fibre Reactive Dyes
- Random Dyeing of warps
- Painted warps
- Shibori on the loom
4-shaft Rug Structures
- Plain Weave
- Double Corduroy
- Knotted Pile
- Skip Plain Weave
- Krokbragd
- Twills for Rugs
- Introduction to Tapestry
- Boundweave