Mastercrafts Weaving, Part 1 of 4
Last weekend, I binge watched the BBC Series on Mastercrafts Weaving. This series came out back in 2010, but I only just learned about it ... and of course I was hooked!
It was a fun little diversion to see others learning about and excited about weaving.
Mastercrafts Weaving, Part 2 of 4
Mastercrafts Weaving, Part 3 of 4
One of the participants was not very well suited to the perfection required for weaving -- To be fair, I think she would have been much more comfortable in a Saori weaving workshop, where she'd have been able to free-wheel a bit more and reframe mistakes a design element.
The other two took the basics they learned in the first few days and ran with it for the remaining 6 weeks, producing yards of fabric.
At one point, the guy who'd been laid off of his white collar office job (which means he was comfortable with computers) started using weaving apps (like iWeaveIt). One of the other participants thought he was cheating to be using a computer, and not trying to work it out himself. The Master Weaver running the shop explained that using a computer app for weaving was most certainly NOT cheating. It was a tool to explore more complex weave structures and colors.
All the way through, I was rooting for Holly ... She seemed like a natural at weaving. I hope she is still at it!
Check out the entire series covering not only weaving, but also green wood craft, thatching, blacksmithing, stained glass, and stone masonry. The only equivalent in the US might be A Craftsman's Legacy
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