Jannie Taylor has been a handweaver and designer for over 50 years. She teaches advanced weaving classes at the AVL Weaving School, and has taught a variety of workshops and seminars at Convergence over the years. An inspired teacher, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with other weavers in a relaxed, collaborative environment.
Jannie enjoys designing and weaving one-of-a-kind items that bring together color, fiber, and structure. Jannie has twice earned the HGA award for “Outstanding Creativity and Craftsmanship in Weaving” and has also received the Complex Weavers’ Award on two occasions. Her work has appeared in several weaving magazines.
Learn to Love Your Liftplan
Weavers who don’t actually have treadles on their loom to tie-up, often do their designing in tie-up and treadling mode. They may be somewhat daunted by the idea of having to fill that long column of empty squares, or maybe they don’t understand the flexibility of designing in liftplan mode for certain weaves. The goal of this seminar is to help weavers understand how and when it’s best to design in the liftplan, what the differences are and some easy software techniques for designing liftplans in several basic weave structures. I will be using WeavePoint 8 software to demonstrate these concepts.
Optional fee: $15.00 for a USB stick with examples of the weaves covered in the seminar
