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1- 2 - 3 Day Workshops Calendar of Events * Workshop fee is $400/day, plus transportation, housing & meals, shipping of supplies Vibrant Rugs: Designing, Dyeing & Weaving for the WOW! Mary Zicafoose shares techniques and tips from 23 years of tapestry & rug weaving. The workshop focus is on designing, dyeing, weaving and finishing contemporary non-loom controlled tapestries and rugs. Instruction will include her custom dye studio procedure, preferred tapestry and weaving techniques, and complete steps in finishing work for exhibition and sales. This is a very comprehensive class, best taught in a three-five day format. Class Size: 24 Ikat & Embellishment: Weft-Faced Design Techniques for Tapestry & Rugs This studio workshop teaches the precise and sequential steps required for creating weft-faced Ikat tapestries and rugs. Students warp a loom, plan a sampler, and learn to measure, stretch, wrap, dye, unwrap and weave the Ikat weft! While technically challenging, the results are dramatic and inspire many creative possibilities. This weft oriented dye process is rarely taught or explored in depth. Offered as a one-day demonstration, or two, three and five-day workshop formats, as well as an advanced level, Ikat II Workshop. Class Size: 24 The Language of Art: COLOR This one-day intensive dip into color will saturate your palette and provide courage at the loom and dye pot. In referring to the work of colorist, Josef Albers, students create a color workbook of 24 personal studies. After cutting and pasting through the rules, you will brave into bending theory, pigment and hue, striving to speak with a new frequency in your work. Class Size: 40
This one-day class will focus on the sequential steps required to develop your unique visual ideas into dynamic tapestry and rug designs. We will spend the day looking at images, drawing, and developing hunches into plans for a series. This is an ideal “time-out” to collect your thoughts, expand your design tools, talk about your work, and transform ideas into workable blueprints. Class Size: 40 A Day of Dyeing Learn to use Pro Wash Fast Acid Dyes with accuracy and safety in your home and studio. Mary Zicafoose will share proven methods of achieving color-fast saturated color, graduated color progressions, and ideas for surface design for wool tapestries and rugs. This one day comprehensive workshop will provide the novice dyer with the information and tools to begin dyeing, as well as expand and refresh the skills of the experienced colorist. Record keeping, equipment comparisons and thought on making color will be covered, as well. Class Size: 20 The Zen of Weaving: Getting Inspired, Staying on Track & Reflections on the Making of Fabric This one-day workshop abounds with handouts and resources to nourish and nurture the busy artist, spinner and weaver. This unique fiber class provides stimulating exercises to aesthetically recharge and ample food for thought about unraveling the threads of life. Focus is on creative purpose, goal setting, stress management and staying in the flow of production and inspiration. There will be time for specific Q & A, and portfolio consultation. Class Size: Unlimited
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Photos from Recent Workshops
above a Florida weaver
stretching weft Ikat.
above/below Mary demonstrating Ikat inlay.
above Mary winding an Ikat shuttle. |
