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 Contacta con nosotros | Latest photos – Summer weaving, natural dyeing and basketry courses with Anna Champeney and Lluis Grau in Galicia, Spain Here you can see enjoy a selection of photos showing work made by pupils at AC Textile Studio. Courses this summer included traditional Spanish pile fabric weaving (“Galician felpa”) for beginners, natural dyeing and Spanish basketry with willow and split wood. Don´t forget that you can always enjoy one-to-one tution with us when you come on holiday and stay at Casa dos Artesans, our holiday cottage situated in the idyllic village of Cristosende, overlooking the River Sil Canyon, in north Spain. Holiday breaks with us offer you a chance to unwind, develop your creativity and really disconnect to your busy lives – and surrounded by stunning scenery where you can often walk without meeting anyone else. Craft is an activity which engages your body, spirit and mind, helping you to relax and at the same time learning something new. We have a few dates left for September, are almost fully booked for October and November, and are now taking bookings for Spring – Summer 2012 from April onwards.      
Above: Traditional Galician Spanish textile weaving with Anna Champeney. During the 5-day course pupils learned the back-to-front warping method for preparing Louet looms with a linen warp and then designed and wove their own piece of loop-pile fabric – felpa. Inspiration for the designs included American patchwork quilts from Gees Bend, Galician rag felpa coverlets and simple geometric shapes. During the course pupils used the natural-dyed wools now available online from AC Textile Studio in a range of colours including cochineal (pinks, reds, purples) and yellows (dyers´ chamomile, weld)… You can book either a 2- or 5-day felpa course with expert guidance by Anna Champeney, as part of a craft-based holiday in north Spain at Casa dos Artesans holiday cottage. 
Above: Galician Spanish basketry course with Lluis Grau. You can learn to make this willow and split wood basket in a day of one-to-one tuition, whether or not you have previous basketry experience.   
Above: An intensive 2-day course introduced pupils to many of the basic principles of natural dyeing. 5 natural dyes were tested out including the fabulous cochineal from Lanzarote, logwood, oak bark, alder buckthorn bark and onion skins. All pupils took a comprehensive set of samples with them, complete with the recipes to repeat the colours. We can offer our guests one-to-one tuition in natural dyeing which starts at 90€ for a short course. International Textile Conference in Kaunas, Lithuania (September 2011) Anna Champeney will be taking time out of her busy schedule at AC Estudio Textil to travel to Kaunas in Lithuania for the international European Textile Network conference this autumn. Instead of teaching, however, she will be a pupil on the specialist dyeing course with the internationally renowned textile designer and founder of the innovative textile company in Japan, Nuno Corporation – Reiko Sudo. If you are going to the conference this year Anna will be delighted to hear from you if so do make contact! Basketry Fair in Salt, Gerona (Catalunya, Spain), first weekend in October 2011 Come and see us in the international basketry fair in Salt, Gerona. We have a stand, as we do every year, at this fun and friendly fair where you can see and buy baskets from Spain and other European countries. There is also a programme of local music, dancing, and gastronomy. If there is a Spanish basket you particularly like, then commission Lluis now and we can bring the basket along to you at Salt. Galician “piteira” -This traditional chicken nesting basket from north Spain makes an unusual and very snug cat basket   
Above: “Pele” investigates the north Spanish Galician piteira basket and gives it the stamp of approval! Lluis Grau, basketmaker, specialises in Spanish basketry forms from the north of Spain and his latest – and very unusual – basket is the piteira or Galician chicken nesting basket. You can order the basket and it can be sent by post (be prepared for a big package to arrive as the basket measures about 65cm H x 55cm W- or you can come for some one-to-one basketry tuition with Lluis and make a piteira yourself on holiday. the cost of the basket varies according to its size but an average size would cost 125€ + postage. We can´t absolutely guarantee your cat or dog will like the basket but we think there is a good chance that he/she will because our cats love it – it took them just 30 seconds to sniff it out and settle in for a first snooze. We call the piteira their “cat palace” – it´s too grand to be called a simple “cat basket”. We think it would be the perfect basket for a cat with kittens as the mother cat is bound to feel more secure in this enclosed basket with a door, that gives her a sense of privacy and protection. The piteira was never made in north Spain for cats, however, but for chickens. It is one of the traditional forms which is now in danger of extinction, and part of our work is to promote a better understanding and appreciation of these wonderful, little known traditional baskets.
 - Cintia Roberta, fashion student at ESDEMGA, presents her bolero jacket project
The simplest of looms can produce sophisticated and fun results with a bit of imagination and daring, as Spanish Fine Art and Fashion students demonstrated in a recent Creatividad (creativity) workshop aimed at fusing the worlds of fashion and craft. Spanish fashion designer brand American Perez teamed up with profesional weaver and textile artist, Anna Champeney, to lead students in an intensive workshop in which each student had to develop their own methodology, design and realise a weave project from start to finish, in just three days. The workshop reflects the typically innovative approach to fine art and design education adopted by ESDEMGA which focuses on creative and experimental processes. The creative partnerships between profesional Spanish craftspeople and fashion designers were formed to enable students to experience the different approaches taken by each sector to design and making as well as to discover a hands-on, process-based approach to design which encourages a greater sensitivity to textures and fabrics.  - Veronica (ESDEMGA) weaves textural felpa fabric (traditional Galician loop-pile fabri) to create a bag
 - Yeray Suarez combines glorious colours and textures to convert into a belt (ESDEMGA)
 - The traditional fringe loom used by ESDEMGA students to create their textile projects
About the rigid heddle fringe loom Looms similar to this one – measuring about 20 x 8cm – were common in Galicia, north Spain. They were used to weave narrow bands of woven cloth with fringes and tassles which were then sewn onto the heavy, hand-woven folk coverlets as an extra flourish in the overall design. Yarn wrapping and macrame techniques were also applied to the fringes to achieve different effects. The ESDEMGA fashion and art students didn´t confine them to traditional linen and wool yarns, as the folk weavers did, however. The brief, presented by Anna Champeney, at the beginning of the creative workshop, was to develop a metholodogy from scratch, using any and every material and yarn which could be used. As such students used copper wire, wools and linens, strips of recycled cloth, and even 3-d objects and short lengths of willow (more commonly used in basketry not loom weaving) to weave with. Narrow bands of woven fabric were combined and sewn together to make larger scale fabrics or 3-d objects such as bags. Gallery – Creative Craft and Fashion Design Workshop at ESDEMGA (Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra, Galicia) Spain July 2011 Congratulations to all the workshop students who worked so hard during the project: Raquel Álvarez González, Marta González Fortes, Cintia Roberta Cuesta, Maria José Rodríguez Garcia, yeray Suárez Arenas, Pilar Ullod Rivera, Cristina Varela Casal, Maribel, Andrea y Carla. All the pieces in the gallery below were made on the small fringe loom, as in the photo above.
More information: Buy a small fringe loom from AC Estudio Textil for 15,50€ + p&p ESDEMGA website
Linen herb bags – in stock again  Just to let you know that our traditional Galician linen bags with lemon verbena grown here by us are now in stock again. See the shop for more details.
Anna Champeney Estudio Textil will lead a creative design course for fine art and fashion students at the University of Vigo in Pontevedra (Galicia) in collaboration with Barcelona-based fashion duo American Perez. The workshop takes place at ESDEMGA (Estudos Superiores en Deseño Textil e Moda da Galiza) in the fine arts faculty in Pontevedra between the – 4 – 6 July 2011. The workshop aims to bring together the worlds of creative weaving and fashion, taking advantage of the new surge of interest in craft which has been a surprising side-effect of economic recession in Europe. The workshop will give students, most of whom will never have used a loom in their lives before, an introduction to weave, with the ambitious challenge of creating small textile objects to incorporate into their fine art or fashion design work. Anna Champeney, English-born weaver settled in Galicia, north Spain, is ideally placed to work with Spanish fashion designers. For strange though it may seem, Galicia – best known for the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route – is actually one of the fashion capitals in Spain and home to the creators of both Zara and Adolfo Dominguez. American Perez are a young fashion duo, winners of the L’Oreal prize for fashion at Cibeles (the Spanish equivalent of London Fashion Week) in 2010, whose inspiration is clearly American culture, from cheerleaders to hippies.  
www.americanperez.com Expressive textile work from Anna Champeney Estudio Textil Loom weaving is such a vast area to explore there are infinite possibilities for both functional and reflective and conceptual work. Anna Champeney Estudio Textil is working on a new series of pieces, some using unexpected materiales, such as cellophane bags, which use weave as a medium for expressing ideas as well as experimenting openly with traditional techniques to produce quite unexpected results. Left – “Uncertainty” – installation piece, silk and wool with natural dyes, cellophane bags Right – “Homage to Ikat” series in rep weave, 100% linen  
Colour work at Anna Champeney Estudio Textil – Cochineal from Lanzarote 
The sheer range and quality of colour used in the textiles from the studio is clearly reflected in this latest series of colour samples. Over 130 different tones have been achieved on silk and wool, giving a huge range of choice. It is not the same to choose an orange-red or a pinky-red in an art textile and much depends on the weaver´s ability and skill to choose and mix particular tones. Natural dyes give complex colours which are unsually unmatched by synthetic dyes and all the yarns used at the textile studio are extracted by hand. If you are in north Spain on 20 – 21 August you can learn to make your own sampler of cochineal in a course, or alternatively, you can order natural Lanzarote cochineal direct from us. Contact us for details.
Casa y Campo – “House and Country” magazine– Feature on Lluis Grau, Spanish basketmaker  
In the July 2011 edition of Spain´s equivalent to Country Living magazine, you can find an article featuring my partner, Lluis Grau´s basketry. Lluis is a specialist in Spanish split wood and willow basketry forms and he offers a one-week course for beginners in July. Contact us for details. Creative collaboration between British artist jeweller David Poston and art weaver (tapestry) Jonathan Cleaver (Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh)
 - jewellery and tapestry collaboration between david poston con jonathan cleaver
So you thought woven tapestry was flat??? This elegant work by David Poston and Jonathan Cleaver is subtle, rich and understated, and really shows how successful collaborations between very different areas of making can be. The series of works was shown at Collect, London´s foremost show of contemporary applied arts. Craft markets and events in Galicia north Spain – Next eco-art flea market at Monforte de Lemos (Galicia) – 10 July 2011 If you find yourself in Galicia, north Spain this summer then come to visit us at Monforte de Lemos. Lluis Grau and Anna Champeney have a stall every second Sunday of the month. The eco-art event is by the main tourist attraction of Monforte, the Colegio de los Escolapios (where you can park easily) next to the river. As usual, you can see and buy our textiles and baskets as well as craft kits and materials. |
Pago seguro
 NUEVO Octubre 2023 Curso presencial setmanal de teixits de baix lliç (Girona)!Un curso nou, setmanal (3h) a Sant Gregori, Girona, amb l'Anna Champeney. Trimensual, plaças limitadas).
Octobre 2023. Ven a aprender a diseñar y realizar tejidos en telar de bajo lizo a mano. Docente: Anna Champeney, profesional desde 2004, con marca textil propia, experta en tejido de bajo lizo, docente en la Escola Massana, Barcelona.
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Creative craft collaborations between textiles, fashion and jewellery – Anna Champeney, American Perez, David Poston and Jonathan Cleaver (Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh)
Anna Champeney Estudio Textil will lead a creative design course for fine art and fashion students at the University of Vigo in Pontevedra (Galicia) in collaboration with Barcelona-based fashion duo American Perez. The workshop takes place at ESDEMGA (Estudos Superiores en Deseño Textil e Moda da Galiza) in the fine arts faculty in Pontevedra between the – 4 – 6 July 2011.
The workshop aims to bring together the worlds of creative weaving and fashion, taking advantage of the new surge of interest in craft which has been a surprising side-effect of economic recession in Europe. The workshop will give students, most of whom will never have used a loom in their lives before, an introduction to weave, with the ambitious challenge of creating small textile objects to incorporate into their fine art or fashion design work. Anna Champeney, English-born weaver settled in Galicia, north Spain, is ideally placed to work with Spanish fashion designers. For strange though it may seem, Galicia – best known for the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route – is actually one of the fashion capitals in Spain and home to the creators of both Zara and Adolfo Dominguez.
American Perez are a young fashion duo, winners of the L’Oreal prize for fashion at Cibeles (the Spanish equivalent of London Fashion Week) in 2010, whose inspiration is clearly American culture, from cheerleaders to hippies.
www.americanperez.com
Expressive textile work from Anna Champeney Estudio Textil
Loom weaving is such a vast area to explore there are infinite possibilities for both functional and reflective and conceptual work. Anna Champeney Estudio Textil is working on a new series of pieces, some using unexpected materiales, such as cellophane bags, which use weave as a medium for expressing ideas as well as experimenting openly with traditional techniques to produce quite unexpected results.
Left – “Uncertainty” – installation piece, silk and wool with natural dyes, cellophane bags
Right – “Homage to Ikat” series in rep weave, 100% linen
Colour work at Anna Champeney Estudio Textil – Cochineal from Lanzarote
The sheer range and quality of colour used in the textiles from the studio is clearly reflected in this latest series of colour samples. Over 130 different tones have been achieved on silk and wool, giving a huge range of choice. It is not the same to choose an orange-red or a pinky-red in an art textile and much depends on the weaver´s ability and skill to choose and mix particular tones. Natural dyes give complex colours which are unsually unmatched by synthetic dyes and all the yarns used at the textile studio are extracted by hand.
If you are in north Spain on 20 – 21 August you can learn to make your own sampler of cochineal in a course, or alternatively, you can order natural Lanzarote cochineal direct from us. Contact us for details.
Casa y Campo – “House and Country” magazine– Feature on Lluis Grau, Spanish basketmaker
In the July 2011 edition of Spain´s equivalent to Country Living magazine, you can find an article featuring my partner, Lluis Grau´s basketry.
Lluis is a specialist in Spanish split wood and willow basketry forms and he offers a one-week course for beginners in July. Contact us for details.
Creative collaboration between British artist jeweller David Poston and art weaver (tapestry) Jonathan Cleaver (Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh)
So you thought woven tapestry was flat??? This elegant work by David Poston and Jonathan Cleaver is subtle, rich and understated, and really shows how successful collaborations between very different areas of making can be. The series of works was shown at Collect, London´s foremost show of contemporary applied arts.
Craft markets and events in Galicia north Spain – Next eco-art flea market at Monforte de Lemos (Galicia) – 10 July 2011
If you find yourself in Galicia, north Spain this summer then come to visit us at Monforte de Lemos. Lluis Grau and Anna Champeney have a stall every second Sunday of the month. The eco-art event is by the main tourist attraction of Monforte, the Colegio de los Escolapios (where you can park easily) next to the river. As usual, you can see and buy our textiles and baskets as well as craft kits and materials.