2025 Registration

Member Registration starts at 7:00 am on November 17, 2024

Registration for all others starts at 7:00 am on December 1, 2024

Due to COVID-19, FTWG cancelled its 2022 Conference two months before it was scheduled to start. As a result, this workshop was not taught in 2022.

Wedge Weave Fundamentals

Skill Level

Intermediate

Required Skills:

  • Student should have basic warping and weaving knowledge.

Class Length

  • 2.5 Days
  • Friday: 9 am to 12 pm, 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
  • Saturday: 9 am to 12 pm, 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
  • Sunday: 9 am to 12 pm

Description

In contrast to most weaves which are woven on a plane horizontal to the loom, wedge weave is woven on the diagonal.  This results in a weft-faced weaving with many distinctive characteristics and exciting design potential.  You will work on your own prewarped loom to explore wedge weave through hands on experience as well as with detailed handouts and images.

Fees

Registration Fee $290 for FTWG members and $320 for all others
Materials Fee $6

Materials Fee includes: handouts, chipboard loom, yarn, and plastic needle for sample loom

Students to Bring

  • A table, floor, or tapestry loom, pre-warped
  • Weft Yarn
  • Beating fork
  • Flat shuttles six to ten inches long or bobbins
  • Scissors, including ones that can cut chipboard
  • Tapestry needle
  • Pencil
  • Ruler

Instructor Bio

Connie Lippert

Headshot of speaker Connie Lippert

Connie’s work has been exhibited in 30 states. She has received several artist grants from the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her work is represented in museum, corporate, academic, and private collections, and has been widely published. Her tapestries are represented in several new books including Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond by Tommye Scanlin, The Art is the Cloth by Micala Sidore, and in The Art of Tapestry Weaving by Rebecca Mezoff, as well as in Connie Lippert: A Wedge Weaver’s Storied Cloth by Carole Greene.

Connie has taught wedge weave workshops and given seminars in California, New York, Michigan, Colorado, New Mexico, Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, South Carolina, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.

Connie is represented by Blue Spiral 1 in Asheville, North Carolina.

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