Congratulations to textilesnaturales´ newest weavers who you can see here modelling their hand-made scarves beautifully!
The wonderful August heat here in Galicia, north Spain has clearly inspired the hot spicey colours used by pupils on their 4-day scarf making course for beginners.
The course was taught by our professional weaver, textile designer and course leader, Anna Champeney.
Each student was able to choose a different kind of design and yarn – selecting either a warm-weight 4-ply lambswool yarn for winter scarves or a lighter, deliciously soft 2-ply lambswool to set up the 4 and 8-shaft Louet table looms they used for the course.
They then sampled using lots of different yarns and colours before finalising their personalised design and weaving it up in the last, intensive day of the course.
All the colours used were previously dyed with the wonderful natural dyes extracted by hand at the Anna Champeney Textile Studio which is what gives them them their complexity in hue which cheaper, lower quality synthetically-dyed yarns simply don´t have.
For one-to-one weaving, dyeing and basketry tuition and group courses given in Spanish, with English language support if necessary, into 2014 contact us for details!
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