Description: Weavers who don’t dye their own yarn are dependent upon color palettes provided by commercial sources. Learning how to blend color while working with already dyed yarn is a different beast than learning how to dye specific hues. “Project Colorway” to the rescue! This is a hands-on approach to learning how to increase your color range when dealing with a finite number of yarn color choices. A variety of off-loom exercises using Ruby’s basic approach to color theory and optical blending, together with a complete color line of Tencel yarn will help you train your eye to see color and value and begin to understand how to incorporate design and color principles into woven structure.
Ruby will demonstrate her method for winding warps with multiple colors without using a paddle and how to design color wrappings that translate into realistic, usable warps. She’ll share an extensive collection of samples for her production line of scarves which document her evolving approach to color design. This progression led to the development of a practical approach to color theory as applied to weaving and a process for designing swatches for Handwoven magazine’s ‘Color Forecast’ series that is applicable for all fiber artists.
Participants are invited to bring in a project that’s giving them headaches, or yarn that they would like help with to incorporate into a design. This class aims to provide the skills to successfully solve these types of challenges.
Instructor: Ruby Leslie
Duration: 3 Day
When: June 15, 16, 17
Level: All
Supplies that students will bring:
- No loom required! (This is a hands on seminar and lecture style class)
- Basic seminar supplies: notebook, pens, fine point sharpie, scissors, glue
Fee: $65
Materials Included:
- Hands on/Off loom Exercises will use 8/2 tencel yarn provided in a full array of 40 colors
- Each participant will get their own set of 40 embroidery floss cards pre-wound with tencel yarn in all colors
- Color-aid paper
- Mat board