Hand-Weaving a Mini Tapestry
Adult | Available
This class is an introduction to hand-weaving tapestry on a frame loom! Students will learn how to tension a frame loom and make a basic weave structure. Next, we will explore a variety of techniques including slits, dovetail weave and hatching to experiment with texture, structure and image. Students will also learn how to design a weaving using a graph paper “cartoon” to guide an image.
Students will be provided all materials.
There is a $4 registration fee included in tuition.
Members will have the $4 fee deducted from the tuition.
A materials fee of $21.00 is included in the tuition.
**Please note that this class at Brookfield Craft Center must meet a minimum number 2 of registrations for the class to run. Students will be notified within a week's notice whether their class will be held. If the class is canceled due to low enrollment, students may request to be transferred to another class or be refunded in full.
***Please note there are several steps to walk down to the Fiber Studio ***
Emma Welty
Emma Welty is an artist and educator with a textile centered studio practice. Welty completed a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Fibers and Art History and an MFA/MA in Visual Art and Art History at Purchase College.
Welty’s work utilizes ancestral traditions of Armenian carpet and needlelace to explore
economies of labor, notions of “heirloom” and cultural transmissions within a digital diaspora. Welty has held residencies at the Newport Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design and the Woodbury Public Library. Welty’s work has recently been exhibited in the Newport Art Museum, Piano Craft Gallery in Boston, Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona, the Gilbert Gallery at Miss Porter’s School, Heirloom Gallery in Brooklyn, Studio Hill Gallery in Woodbury, CT and the Jamestown Art Center.