Beginners Tapestry Weaving - 2 Days
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 Weaving - 2 Days
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.
Your Tutor
Jo McDonald is a Scottish Visual Artist, who lives and teaches in Edinburgh. She has been teaching weaving workshops for many years throughout the UK. She offers regular tapestry weaving courses in central Edinburgh for all levels of ability, from beginners to the more advanced, as well as one-to-one sessions.
Jo graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a first class BA (Hons) and MFA in Tapestry. She was short-listed for The Cordis Trust Prize for Tapestry (2015 and 2021), received two Hope Scott Trust Awards (2019 and 2013), granted a Creative Scotland Professional Development Award (2013), and won the Milly and Benno Schotz Award for best work by a young sculptor at the Royal Glasgow Institute in 2012. She has work held in Apex International Hotels in London, Amateras Foundation in Bulgaria, University of Aberdeen in Scotland and The Gallery of Szombathelyi in Hungary, as well as in private collections in UK, France, USA and South Africa.
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