Weaving Workshop with Ali!

Weaving Workshop with Ali Lou Field

Try out the wonderful world of weaving on a cardboard loom! You will learn weaving techniques such as plain weave, switching colours and making shapes to make a little textured weaving that you can either hang from a dowel or mount in a frame.

Beginners are very welcome, and all weaving materials will be provided before the workshop.

The workshop includes:

• A lovely selection of yarns in a variety of colours and textures
• A 22cm x 14cm cardboard loom (prepared with vertical ‘warp’ strings, all ready to weave), weaving needle and dowel to hang your weaving on
• Instruction sheets showing how to weave; finish your weaving and hang it from a dowel; frame a weaving; and how to setup the loom to use again

In the workshop we will start by doing some plain weaving, changing from one colour to the next, and I will show you the basics for making some shapes. Later on I will demonstrate how to take a weaving off the loom, finish the ends, and hang it on a dowel. You will then be able to do that at home once you have finished your own weaving – the instruction sheets provided have lots of pictures to remind you of all the steps.

Ali Lou Field is a weaver and dyer, and creates landscape inspired woven art combined with embroidery, and highly-textured contemporary framed weavings. Ali is a member of the British Tapestry Group, and the West Surrey Guild of Spinners, Weaver and Dyers.