Wendy joined Complex Weavers quite soon after learning to weave, and later became 1st VP and then President. In 2009 she took over the iconic Handweavers Studio in London and developed its teaching with weekly classes, a workshop program, and a two-year Diploma for which she was Course Director. A major focus in her personal weaving is exploring ways of creating collapse, pleat and bump effects. As though weaving is not exciting enough anyway, she is addicted to seeing what happens when the loom-state cloth hits the water, and sharing that with the Dimensional Texture Study Group which she co-leads.
Weaving Peaks and Troughs
Take two perfectly ordinary yarns, weave them using a perfectly ordinary loom, cut off a piece of perfectly flat loom-state cloth, wet-finish it, and wow, magic happens! This talk looks at some of the ways weavers can create fabric that forms itself into pleats and furrows using nothing more than weave structure coupled with a thoughtful choice of warp and weft yarns. We’ll explore how certain techniques lend themselves to sharp-edged pleats and others to gentler furrows; we’ll look at what works horizontally or vertically; and we’ll take a dive into some of the ways such fabrics can be used and their 3D nature emphasized or exploited.
This session will be captured for the Weavers Handshake, CW’s online, on-demand learning platform.
