Class Title: Beginning Weaving
Instructor: Janice Sullivan
Tuition: $385/Members – $405 /Non-Members
Class Dates: 6 Saturdays, July 25 – Aug 29th
Times: 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Place: Pacific Textile Arts classroom
Number of Students: Minimum:6 Max:8
Materials fee: $25
Class Policies
Class Description:
This class will cover the fundamentals of weaving: fibers and yarns, warp and weft calculations, tools and equipment, warping looms, drafting and weaving designs suitable for interior or fashion fabrics. Students will weave a sampler of four shaft weaves. Begin designing a project that they can weave on their own.
July 25 :Introduction to Weaving: tools and equipment, fiber, warp calculations, winding warps.
Aug 1: Warping looms
Aug 8: Understanding weaving drafts and weaving the sampler, Plain weave, Rep Weave, Basket Weave
Aug 15: Twills, 1/3, 2/2, 3/1, Herringbone
Aug 22: Broken Twills, Reverse Twills, hand controlled lace weaves
Aug 29: Finish Samplers, Discuss Ideas for Individual Projects such as scarves, towels, placemats, table runners
Materials
Students may pay $25 materials fee for 5/2 cotton provided by Pacific Textile Arts or they may bring their own yarn (5/2 or 3/2 cotton, bamboo, or 8/2 tencel).
BIO
Janice Sullivan graduated with a BA in Textiles from Boston University, 1979. She received a Masters in Art Education in 1982 from Massachusetts College or Art. Teaching at City College of San Francisco from 1995-2019 in the Fashion Department, her subjects included ,weaving, dyeing, and tapestry. Other teaching opportunities included an adjunct assignment at San Francisco State University in the Art Department (2003-2005), as well as weaving and surface design at College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg, 2006-2012. Her work has been exhibited both locally and nationally. It is represented in many corporate and private collections across the country including several Kaiser-Permanente Medical Centers, Moody’s Investment Services, Quantum Corporation, Summit Medical Center & Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital to name a few. In her forty year study of loom manipulated, multi-tensioned double weave, she pioneered a new approach to sculptural textiles. Her work also incorporates painting, printing, stitching and dyeing techniques. After living in San Francisco for 23 years, Janice Sullivan moved to Fort Bragg in 2005 where she maintains a weaving and dyeing studio and continues to teach workshops at Pacific Textile Arts. She was a member of Northcoast Artists Gallery in Fort Bragg, CA. She is currently represented by Highlight Gallery in Mendocino CA. Her work can be viewed on Instagram as Janice Sullivan Textiles