COLOUR GAMP TEA TOWEL WORKSHOP
Nine pre-warped looms (eight table looms and one rigid heddle) filled the Summerhayes Room with colour for Helen's workshop. Colour and threading choices had been made some weeks before: 8/2 unmercerised cotton in bright or pastel rainbow colours or a selection from each palette; and straight or mixed point threadings. With the extra ingredient of 4 or 8 shafts in action, there was a lot of variety going on!
Helen's guided us through planning, designing and weaving colour gamps to provide us with a useful weaving reference for the various optical effects produced by weaving with different colour combinations. The threadings and lift sequences resulted in even more variety (some rather less pleasing than others!). And the end bonus will be ... two or three bona fide tea towels!
Fuelled by caffeine and calories, we made surprisingly good progress - albeit with the occasional dark mutterings as one or the other of us realised we'd made an error and had to 'unweave' several picks. Helen (helped by Guild member Jacquie Hitchen) handled us all with patience and humour and we left the workshop having learned a great deal. Helen generously provided us all with more pirns of various coloured cotton so the adventures in colour and threading gamps will continue as we work on our weaving at home!
Helen's guided us through planning, designing and weaving colour gamps to provide us with a useful weaving reference for the various optical effects produced by weaving with different colour combinations. The threadings and lift sequences resulted in even more variety (some rather less pleasing than others!). And the end bonus will be ... two or three bona fide tea towels!
Fuelled by caffeine and calories, we made surprisingly good progress - albeit with the occasional dark mutterings as one or the other of us realised we'd made an error and had to 'unweave' several picks. Helen (helped by Guild member Jacquie Hitchen) handled us all with patience and humour and we left the workshop having learned a great deal. Helen generously provided us all with more pirns of various coloured cotton so the adventures in colour and threading gamps will continue as we work on our weaving at home!
