Welcome!
This site contains all the pre-recorded materials for our workshop. As we progress, new lessons will be revealed with the videos and handouts to support the next stage in our weaving. You can begin right away with the Introduction by clicking Get Started below.
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Introduction
What is double weave?
What is double weave anyway? Let's set some expectations for the journey we are about to begin.
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Lesson One
Planning a design
Putting fibre, colour and blocks together to create your unique design.
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Lesson Two
Preparing to weave
It's time to finalise your design and take it to the loom.
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Lesson Three
Lifting basics
Let's get weaving! We'll look at the principles behind liftplans and tie-ups for layers and blocks.
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Lesson Four
First variations
There's lots to get stuck into here! We look at variations that make the most of your threading and tie-up.
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Lesson Five
Second variations
We consider re-interpreting our threading to create new variations with a different set of lifts.
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Lesson Six
What next?
Now we've got the hang of double weave on eight shafts, where do we go from here?
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BONUS LESSON
More than eight
Expanding the principles of double cloth blocks to 12 shafts, 16 shafts or more.