Check out the workshop descriptions below for current offerings. Registration is initially opened at the Guild meeting noted in each workshop’s description. Please note that your spot is not secure until your non-refundable deposit of $75 has been received.
You can also register by mail. Please check with the workshop coordinator to make sure there are still openings. If there are, you can send your non-refundable $75 deposit to: WWG, PO Box 795, Coupeville, WA 98239. If the workshop is full, you can be added to the waitlist. Non-Guild members may send inquires via the form on our home page.
*NOTE: By registering for a workshop, please understand that you have made a financial commitment to the entire cost of the workshop. If you cancel and you are unable to find a replacement from either, first, the waiting list, or second, your own efforts, you will still owe the Guild the remaining cost of the workshop. Fairly, as we only break-even on our workshops, this remaining amount should not be incurred by the other participants.
If anyone is interested in hosting an instructor, please contact the workshop coordinator. It is a great opportunity to get to know one of our wonderful visiting fiber artists and have your own private time to talk shop. The commitment involves providing overnight accommodations, all meals (including lunch for workshops) and transportation to and from the workshop. In return the Guild will provide a $40 voucher for each night's stay that can be used at any Guild workshop.
Workshop Coordinator: Jodi Welliver
You can also register by mail. Please check with the workshop coordinator to make sure there are still openings. If there are, you can send your non-refundable $75 deposit to: WWG, PO Box 795, Coupeville, WA 98239. If the workshop is full, you can be added to the waitlist. Non-Guild members may send inquires via the form on our home page.
*NOTE: By registering for a workshop, please understand that you have made a financial commitment to the entire cost of the workshop. If you cancel and you are unable to find a replacement from either, first, the waiting list, or second, your own efforts, you will still owe the Guild the remaining cost of the workshop. Fairly, as we only break-even on our workshops, this remaining amount should not be incurred by the other participants.
If anyone is interested in hosting an instructor, please contact the workshop coordinator. It is a great opportunity to get to know one of our wonderful visiting fiber artists and have your own private time to talk shop. The commitment involves providing overnight accommodations, all meals (including lunch for workshops) and transportation to and from the workshop. In return the Guild will provide a $40 voucher for each night's stay that can be used at any Guild workshop.
Workshop Coordinator: Jodi Welliver
2019-2020 Workshops
Sarah Jackson
Color Confidence
May 3, 4, 5, 2019
at Pacific Rim Institute
Full - Wait List Only
Students will explore color compositions, weave samples in 2 weave structures, and discover fresh ideas for effectively translating color combinations into woven cloth. This workshop is a combination of presentation, discussion, and weaving; it is not a round robin workshop. Students will complete the workshop with a greater understanding of how colors interact in woven cloth. They will know how to sample effectively and how to evaluate ideas for cloth using their sample color combinations. They will leave the workshop with woven samples and confidence in their own creativity and ability to work successfully with color.
This workshop includes a pre-wound warp (mailed 1 month prior to the workshop) and a selection of over 100 colors of 8/2 cotton for weft. You will need a 4-Shaft loom with a 12-dent reed.
Class Limit: 18 Students
Price: The preliminary fee is of $205 based on 12 students.
Terry Olson
Tapestry Techniques on a Postcard
September 6-8, 2019
Location Pacific Rim Institute
Full- Wait list only
Learn the basics or increase your skill set in this three-day workshop on tapestry techniques. Building on a good foundation is a key to success. The foundation of tapestry means learning basic techniques like meet and separate, shape-building, warp spacing and straight edges. Learn to make diagonals, curves and rectangles. Those ready may learn more advanced techniques, like pick and pick, surface texturing, color blending, and weft locks.
Plan to bring a loom like the copper pipe loom or Mirrix, warped and ready to go. Detailed, easy to follow instructions will be sent to workshop members well in advance. Instructor will bring weft and other materials, including a color handout for reference
Requires a Tapestry Loom.
Class Limit: 16 Students
Price: The preliminary fee of $60 based on 12 students.
Color Confidence
May 3, 4, 5, 2019
at Pacific Rim Institute
Full - Wait List Only
Students will explore color compositions, weave samples in 2 weave structures, and discover fresh ideas for effectively translating color combinations into woven cloth. This workshop is a combination of presentation, discussion, and weaving; it is not a round robin workshop. Students will complete the workshop with a greater understanding of how colors interact in woven cloth. They will know how to sample effectively and how to evaluate ideas for cloth using their sample color combinations. They will leave the workshop with woven samples and confidence in their own creativity and ability to work successfully with color.
This workshop includes a pre-wound warp (mailed 1 month prior to the workshop) and a selection of over 100 colors of 8/2 cotton for weft. You will need a 4-Shaft loom with a 12-dent reed.
Class Limit: 18 Students
Price: The preliminary fee is of $205 based on 12 students.
Terry Olson
Tapestry Techniques on a Postcard
September 6-8, 2019
Location Pacific Rim Institute
Full- Wait list only
Learn the basics or increase your skill set in this three-day workshop on tapestry techniques. Building on a good foundation is a key to success. The foundation of tapestry means learning basic techniques like meet and separate, shape-building, warp spacing and straight edges. Learn to make diagonals, curves and rectangles. Those ready may learn more advanced techniques, like pick and pick, surface texturing, color blending, and weft locks.
Plan to bring a loom like the copper pipe loom or Mirrix, warped and ready to go. Detailed, easy to follow instructions will be sent to workshop members well in advance. Instructor will bring weft and other materials, including a color handout for reference
Requires a Tapestry Loom.
Class Limit: 16 Students
Price: The preliminary fee of $60 based on 12 students.
2020
Laurie Duxbury
"Masters of Overshot"
March 6-8, 2020
Sign-ups begin in April 2019
Connect with the past and design for the future using this versatile structure. Students will bring their own pre-warped four-shaft looms. We’ll begin with traditional pattern treadling and advance to more varied structures, including honeycomb and boundweave. Learn how to keep track of pattern treadling without a draft, how to use color to create depth, and how to adapt overshot designs for your own use.
Class Limit: 18 Students
Price: The preliminary $150 based on 12 Students
Laurie's website
Tom Knisley
Zanshi and Sakiori
May 5-6, 2020
Location TBD
Sign-ups begin in September 2019
Sakiori and Zanshi fabrics have their roots in recycling Japanese fabrics. Sakiori uses very narrow strips of fabric much like a rag rug, but with a drape that makes it suitable for clothing. Zanshi cloth is woven with remnant threads from previously woven fabrics that are tied together to make a continuous length of thread in order to weave new fabrics. In this workshop, students will learn the fundamentals of both Sakiori and Zanshi weaving. Looms will be pre-warped. For your weft, bring your thrums and little bits of thread and yarns, or go to your local thrift shop to find silk, rayon, or fine cotton fabrics for Sakiori weft.
Class Limit: 16 Students
Price: The preliminary fee $120 based on 12 Students
Tom Knisely
Weaving Multiple Structures on a Straight 8 Threading
May 8-10, 2020
Location TBD
Sign-ups begin in September 2019
This workshop is intended to help you think beyond the obvious possibilities of a given threading and treadling. A perfect example is the numerous treadling’s you find for a threading draft in your favorite weaver’s pattern book. You thread your warp to the desired pattern draft and then treadle it several different ways to achieve different patterns. But what if you could thread your loom to a simple threading and weave several different structures? This exactly what we will do on a simple eight shaft straight draw twill threading.
Each student will weave a sampler starting with the simplest and obvious variations of Plain Weave, Basket Weave and Twills. We will then move on to weave Waffle Weave, Huck lace, Bronson Lace, Double Weave, Monks Belt and Summer and Winter. Dozens of structures are possible on this simple threading of one to eight. By simply thinking through and changing the tie-up and lift combinations all these well-known weave structures are possible and many more. Imagine weaving a towel of Huck Lace and Twill borders. Hopefully you will never experience weavers block. There is nothing worse than a long warp and a lack of inspiration on how to weave it off. But not anymore.
Class Limit: 16 Students
Price: The preliminary fee is $170 based on 12 Students
Tom Knisely's website
Mini Workshops are a way for members to share talents, mentor learning and create community in a short, fun format. The instructor volunteers their time so the only cost to members is for supplies. Registration is available at Guild meetings. Contact Jodi Welliver to either volunteer to share your talents, or to sign up for a workshop
last updated March 23, 2019