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Not Yer Granny's Overshot
A 3 Day Workshop
Where: The Gaelic College
When: November 2, 3 and 4th, 2018
Instructor: Janet Dawson
Deadline for Registration: October 5th, 2018
Overshot is a much beloved four shaft weave with endless possibilities and variations. We'll begin by studying traditional overshot concepts like tromp-as-writ, star fashion, rose fashion, overshot on opposites, as well as weaving skills such as treadling a pattern without needing a draft, handling two shuttles at once, keeping your place in a complicated treadling, and avoiding mistakes while threading.
Once we've got the basics down, we'll move beyond traditional patterns and treadling to some less common variations (Italian, flamepoint, swivel, petit point, shadow, treadled as lace, and others), designing your own overshot patterns using name drafting and other techniques, and a look in new directions in overshot on eight shafts and designing in the half tones.
Costs:
Live-in Student: (includes accommodation for Friday and Saturday nights, workshop tuition, and all meals and breaks from Friday morning snack through Sunday afternoon snack)
Double room: $430.00 per person
Single room: $473.00
Day Student: (includes workshop tuition, lunches and breaks) $291.00
If you wish to arrive on Thursday the associated costs would be:
Thursday Night Dinner - $18.00
Thursday Night Accommodation and Friday Breakfast
Double room: $47.50 per person
Single room: $69.00
Janet Dawson
Janet learned to weave at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design in 1994 and taught the weaving program there from 2000 to 2009. She teaches in the US every winter, and has over 7000 students in her Floor Loom Weaving class at Craftsy.com. Janet has been a member of the Sydney Weavers' Guild since '94 and was the HGA Rep for the Maritime provinces for four years. She has had articles published in the Ontario Spinners & Handweavers magazine, Fibre Focus, and twice in Handwoven Magazine.
In addition to her own weaving business, The Weaver's Palette, Janet owns The Bobbin Tree, a store catering to weavers, spinners, knitters and felters. Her handwoven blankets, scarves, table linens, garments and other items have been sold in shops in the Maritimes for 15 years and now grace the homes and wardrobes of customers across North America, Europe, and as far away as Australia and the country of Georgia.
Janet's focus has swung from complex weaves to simple cloth and back again over the years. Her current passion is for the mechanics of cloth: understanding and communicating the actual structure of weaving structures.
When: November 2, 3 and 4th, 2018
Instructor: Janet Dawson
Deadline for Registration: October 5th, 2018
Overshot is a much beloved four shaft weave with endless possibilities and variations. We'll begin by studying traditional overshot concepts like tromp-as-writ, star fashion, rose fashion, overshot on opposites, as well as weaving skills such as treadling a pattern without needing a draft, handling two shuttles at once, keeping your place in a complicated treadling, and avoiding mistakes while threading.
Once we've got the basics down, we'll move beyond traditional patterns and treadling to some less common variations (Italian, flamepoint, swivel, petit point, shadow, treadled as lace, and others), designing your own overshot patterns using name drafting and other techniques, and a look in new directions in overshot on eight shafts and designing in the half tones.
Costs:
Live-in Student: (includes accommodation for Friday and Saturday nights, workshop tuition, and all meals and breaks from Friday morning snack through Sunday afternoon snack)
Double room: $430.00 per person
Single room: $473.00
Day Student: (includes workshop tuition, lunches and breaks) $291.00
If you wish to arrive on Thursday the associated costs would be:
Thursday Night Dinner - $18.00
Thursday Night Accommodation and Friday Breakfast
Double room: $47.50 per person
Single room: $69.00
Janet Dawson
Janet learned to weave at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design in 1994 and taught the weaving program there from 2000 to 2009. She teaches in the US every winter, and has over 7000 students in her Floor Loom Weaving class at Craftsy.com. Janet has been a member of the Sydney Weavers' Guild since '94 and was the HGA Rep for the Maritime provinces for four years. She has had articles published in the Ontario Spinners & Handweavers magazine, Fibre Focus, and twice in Handwoven Magazine.
In addition to her own weaving business, The Weaver's Palette, Janet owns The Bobbin Tree, a store catering to weavers, spinners, knitters and felters. Her handwoven blankets, scarves, table linens, garments and other items have been sold in shops in the Maritimes for 15 years and now grace the homes and wardrobes of customers across North America, Europe, and as far away as Australia and the country of Georgia.
Janet's focus has swung from complex weaves to simple cloth and back again over the years. Her current passion is for the mechanics of cloth: understanding and communicating the actual structure of weaving structures.
