#402 Annie MacHale-Three-Color Pickup for Inkle Weavers Full Day Saturday

#402 Annie MacHale-Three-Color Pickup for Inkle Weavers  Full Day  Saturday  9am- 4pm
  Bldg  9 Center  $100

Skill:  Advanced
Prerequisite: Students should be able to warp and weave on an inkle loom

Description: The horizontal bar pickup technique is commonly used by indigenous weavers in North, Central and South America. We will look at woven samples to discover several variations on this technique and discuss charting methods. Students will warp their looms, and work with printed patterns to develop their own designs on the loom.
Annie will share tips for warping, fixing mistakes, starting and stopping, and keeping selvages straight. She will also demonstrate how to temporarily remove and replace the warp, as well as how to cut the final project off the loom and handle it when it is complete.

As time and student interest allow, we can also explore a free online tool for creating patterns

Homework:   None

Students Should Bring: Inkle loom, belt shuttle, sharp scissors, 30 string or texsolv heddles sized to fit the loom, note-taking materials, cotton yarn in 4 high-contrast colors in sport/DK weight or perle cotton/crochet cotton #3   Optional: Laptop or tablet for use with online pattern tool 

Material Fee: $5.00  Covers- Handouts, sticks, rubber mats