Painted warp

Calley Morrison on Instagram: "A sunny couple of hours this weekend to start seeing some ideas. Got lots queued up for this narrow 14”ish indigo warp - a sketch from some travels, the final bits of natural dyed yellows/oranges/greens from last year’s whidbey warps, BLUE BLUE BLUE, more zigzaggedy, a sideways fringey thing, somethin warp-wastey-wild. The bestworst part is that its never enough warp. #handwoven #textile #textileart #indigo #indigodyed #naturallydyed #overshotweaving…

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Want the beauty of a hand painted warp but don’t have the space or equipment required? In this class we will explore different methods of painting your warp (and perhaps the weft) using fabric paints.

Using Reactive Dyes, I tried to screen print a cotton warp. Some of the threads obviously slipped when I put in onto the loom but it wasn...

Warp & Weft Flatweaves - Ikats

This piece combines two of my new skills: painting a warp chain with inks made from natural dyes and using a supplementary warp to weave turned summer and winter.

These have evolved from my love of painting and weaving, in an effort to create a different kind of tapestry. They are painted on paper and other surfaces and woven with strips cut from the...

Christine Tsai on Instagram: "How many times did my hands touch this warp before it was finished? Hundreds probably. Winding the warp. Stretching, wrapping and Oops unwrapping and rewrapping ikat tape. Scouring and squeezing. Dipping into indigo, one, two, six times. Rinsing and swinging one, two, six times. Rinsing and rinsing. Unwrapping. Warping the loom (presleying, shifting, Oops reshifting and reshifting, tying and Oops untying and retying knots, threading, sleying, tying and Oops

Warp it! Paint it! Weave it! with instructor Kathie Roig at John C. Campbell Folk School. | Visit us at www.folkschool.org for more about our classes.