Beginners Tapestry
Join Jo McDonald for a two-day Beginners Tapestry Weaving Workshop, suitable both for complete beginners and for improvers looking to refresh their skills.
About Beginners Tapestry
| 25th Oct 2025 to 26th Oct 2025 | |
| Sat 25 Oct (10am – 4pm) & Sun 26 Oct (11am – 4pm) | |
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Central Scotland School of Craft Craft Central, Riverview Building, High Street, Dunblane FK15 0EE |
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| £210 | |
| Visit the event website here | |
Join Jo McDonald for a two-day Beginners Tapestry Weaving Workshop. The course will cover a range of different tapestry weaving techniques, and is suitable both for complete beginners and for improvers looking to refresh their skills and add new techniques to their repertoire. Over the weekend, you’ll explore the possibilities of weaving using a range of materials and techniques. Working on a small frame loom, you will create a woven sample, exploring different flat weaving techniques to create simple shapes, angles, curves and stripes.
A wide variety of materials will be available to experiment with, including cottons, wools, linens, and some unusual yarns for creative weft blending. If you have your own materials you’d like to include—perhaps an old jumper to upcycle or leftover yarn from previous projects—feel free to bring them along. Sustainability is encouraged
Over the two days, you’ll learn how to
Measure out and warp up a simple frame loom
Choose appropriate thicknesses of materials to weave with
Explore plain weave
How to control the weft tension across the woven surface to keep straight sides
Create simple shapes, such as rectangles, squares and curves, as well as angles and stripes
Work with multiple weft bundles
Deal with slits and interlocking wefts where shapes come together
Explore colour blending
Finish off and present their work
This course is suitable for complete beginners as well as improvers with some experience looking to deepen their knowledge. Jo will work with you to build on the techniques you already know or are interested in learning or improving on. Jo creates a warm, welcoming atmosphere where everyone can work at their own pace and enjoy the process of learning and making.
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