On April 12th, 13th and 14th, the Palomar Handweavers Guild www.palomarhandweavers.org put on a wonderful workshop called “The Magic of Iridescence” taught by Bobbie Irwin from Colorado. The Antique Gas and Steam engine Museum hosted our event. All of the participants received a warp of 3 or more colors in 3 inch sections as well as 24 additional colors for our wefts.
Bobbie brought a boat load of samples to illustrate how crossing particular threads in a particular order causes an iridescences. It gives the fabric the illusion of the colors shifting.
She gave us a basic class on the theory of color and how that translates to weaving colored yarn.
We had a blast! The people that are in the Palomar Handweavers Guild as well as the San Diego Creative Weavers Guild are some of the nicest people I have met. Kindred spirits. Here is some pictures I took at the workshop:
On the second day, Bobbie taught us weave structure and how it relates to iridescence. Here, she was showing us how to warp using 2 color pairs so that they don’t twist and enables you to use only one shuttle.
Here are some of the girls I had the pleasure to share the workshop with.
Good Times!
I will post some pictures of the gamp I wove in a few days.
Ok so here is the gamp we did in the work shop. My warp colors are yellow green, green, blue green.
We used all the colors on the card as our weft.
I bunched the gamp up so you can see the iridescence effect the different colors created.
I really enjoyed the workshop and the colors inspire me.
Looks like a fun workshop!
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