Connect with the past and design for the future using this versatile structure. Using one warp, students will begin with traditional pattern treadling and advance to more varied structures, including honeycomb and boundweave. Learn how to keep track of pattern treadling without a draft, how to use color to create depth, and how to adapt overshot designs for your own use.

Profile drafts are a powerful tool for weavers to use to design with block weaves without writing out every thread of your design.  This workshop explains profile drafts and shows students how to convert profiles into multiple weave structures. This is a round-robin workshop where each student will bring a pre-warped loom in a different structure (assigned by the instructor). Structures will likely include: Bronson Lace, Huck Lace, Log Cabin, Ms & Os, Overshot, Rep Weave, Summer and Winter, Turned Twill. Hands-on instruction will be provided on how to weave each sample as well as how to work with two shuttles and manage neat selvedges.  Focused discussion on sett and sett modifications to ensure your work looks as you want it. 

Like cloth, written language can be found everywhere. Yet the intrinsic quality of words – their ability to transcend basic “information sharing” to express ideas and convey sentiment – gives them considerable power
as decorations in cloth. With the goal to inspire weavers to expand their repertoire of decorative approaches, this workshop will provide step-by-step instruction in using inlay to weave letters and words in cloth, often combined with additional decorations such as flowers, butterflies, etc. The workshop is a foundation for weavers to explore their fascination with calligraphy, poetry, printing, folklore, history, storytelling, or other literary or book arts.
The focus of the workshop will be hands-on weaving by the participants, each working individually at their loom to learn the techniques used to lay-in words into cloth. The workshop will include an in-depth
presentation of the inlay technique as used to weave words into cloth; practice in designing and drafting inlay patterns using letters and words; and numerous woven examples for participants to examine. Students will
receive detailed handouts to use when exploring this technique independently in the future. Alternately, participants can use Scott’s book, "Weave with Words: Using Inlay to Create Text in Woven Cloth," Schiffer
Craft, 2026.

This project-based class helps weavers move beyond a two-dimensional mindset and gently enter the world of three-dimensional weaving. Working with an 8" wide double-weave warp, participants will learn the fundamental techniques used to create dimensional cloth, including double-width weaving, separate layers, layer interchange, and tubular structures. As we build our understanding of how layers interact, we will explore the often-overlooked "hidden selvedge"—the internal edge that allows layers to connect, separate, fold, and form shape. Paper prototypes help students develop strategies for transforming flat cloth into three-dimensional forms. Using these new skills, we will imagine and construct a square box or bag, culminating in a final challenge: weaving a square bottom box or bag that requires only a single seam to secure its form. Hint: it can be done! By the end of the workshop, students will have a deeper understanding of hidden selvedges, and a finished three-dimensional woven object.

In this workshop we will be pushing the boundaries of traditional Huck Lace. For generations Huck Lace has been woven in cotton or linen with warp and weft threads of the same size and color, allowing the warp floats and weft floats to be the focus of the pattern. When you add Color and Weave theory to this familiar threading, a whole new world of patterning possibilities comes to life.

Head off the beaten track, where it’s delightful, it’s deliberate, it’s deflected. Using a myriad of weave structures and commercially available yarn (NOT overtwisted or unbalanced), subtle to amazing transformations can occur in woven cloth if you understand how to control the variables of fiber, yarn grist (i.e. yarn density, twist, yardage), weave structure and finishing techniques. Explore the dimensional landscape of ruffles, ridges, waffles, crinkles, “innies” and “outies” while weaving in round robin fashion. Most of the drafts require 8-S looms (floor or table), but there are a few 4-S designs requiring floor looms. Ruby will contact participants after registration and send custom wound warps for dressing your loom prior to the workshop. Seminar discussion will focus on why these transformations happen, the role that color plays in creating optical movement, and how to manipulate weave structure and fiber to produce texture and dimensionality. Methods of finishing cloth with water and heat will be addressed as well as techniques to document the before and after effects for record keeping purposes.

This workshop introduces weavers to the concept of block design, where two shafts control the color of each block or threading unit. (One shaft controls the pattern colorway while the other controls the background color). Color suggestions will be sent via email. Drafts for 4- and 8-shaft looms will be sent via UPS mail upon registration. Learn an easy way to tie a wide warp onto the front cloth beam rod, in addition to a versatile treadling method to maximize the number of patterns. Discussions will focus on color, movement of blocks, skeleton tie-ups, and threading systems. Weavers will work exclusively on their own looms, learning how to interpret the profile treadling plans for both the thick and thin weft picks. The warp is wide enough for a table runner or several placemats. Weavers will also participate in a color wrap session. Weavers will arrive with a pre-warped loom and weft materials. Details for warp and weft will be sent via email in advance.

This workshop requires a loom, either rigid heddle or a shaft loom.  Students will learn various hand manipulated techniques for weaving such as:  inlay, clasped weft, leno, Danish medallion, and rya knots. After playing/practicing with each technique, students will then use the remainder of their warps to choose several of the techniques learned and complete a scarf. 

This is an on-loom workshop taking fiber in a new direction by creating “crimp cloth.” Learn to create fabric with permanently crimped designs that hold their memory even when washed. Apply this stash-busting technique to any threading and learn the thought process that will lead to endless possibilities for creating magic cloth. Participants will draft, weave, and crimp
their samples in class. Learn how the fabric can be used for one-size-fits-all garments that flatter any figure, scarves and shawls that won’t slide off your shoulders, and knit-look ribbing for a sweater or jacket collar. Garment design and sewing tips are included.

Successful handwoven clothing requires matching the characteristics and properties of the cloth with the performance needs of a particular garment, whether it is loose-fitting, tailored, warm, or light and breezy. This workshop provides guidelines for designing, planning, weaving, and finishing cloth that will be appropriate for different garments, with hands-on weaving of potential clothing samples in a modified round-robin format. In the last session, we will examine the different samples and discuss how best to use them, or revise them for different clothing. Participants will bring pre-warped looms with one of five different drafts. Each draft will specify materials, allowing weavers to make color choices. During the workshop, participants weave multiple samples of each of the five drafts, staying at one loom for length of that half-day session. Everyone will rotate to a loom with a different draft for the next session, but will not weave on every loom. The workshop is not about sewing the garments, but sewing requirements that influence cloth design will be explained.