Registration from May 15 through July 1, 2025.
Join us for Designing Handwoven Transparencies with Suzie Liles
Handwoven transparencies feature inlaid designs on a background of sheer plain weave. Dramatic positive-negative contrasts, enhanced by the interplay of light, are characteristic of this unique medium.
This easy technique assures satisfying results using a simple loom and odds and ends of yarn. Examples of inlay effects, finishing, and mounting options will be shown.
Participants will be guided to try a variety of techniques for developing original designs. Plain weave and simple inlay techniques will be practiced to produce a small decorative, translucent hanging for a window or wall.
Equipment/Supplies
Class fee includes a pre-measured linen warp (provided upon registration) and weft for weaving. Participants must pre-warp their looms and be ready to weave on the first day of class.
What to Bring
- Two or four shaft loom
- 15 or 12 dent reed
- Weft for inlay: thrums or small quantities of smooth, fine wool in your choice of colors. Yarn that is suitable as inlay should be fine enough to lie beside tabby without distorting the even spacing of the plain-weave mesh.
- Padding for tie-on knots at the cloth beam: a split paper towel core or a piece of flexible corrugated packing paper. 13” or slightly wider if using a 15 dent reed; 16” or wider if using a 12 dent reed
- Shuttle and bobbin for tabby weft, bobbin winder
- For cartoon (your design picture): about a yard of tough wrapping paper the width of your warp, soft pencil, eraser, broad felt-tipped marking pen, colored pencils to color design areas, scissors, 4 strait pins or two clothes pins to attach cartoon to warp.
Instructor Bio: Suzie Liles
Suzie Liles is a lifelong Oregonian who loves to travel and leads textile tours to Egypt and Sweden. She is an intrepid and enthusiastic weaver who loves to share her knowledge. She has taught weaving workshops and seminars for adults and children in the U.S. and Canada and for the past 30 years she has taught at the Weavers School with Madelyn van der Hoogt.
Suzie has an MFA in fiber from the University of Oregon. She is a member of the Handweavers’ Guild of America and has written many articles for Handwoven Magazine. She is the owner of Eugene Textile Center and co-owner of Glimakra USA.
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This weaving workshop is open to the public from age 18.
Your registration will be confirmed once you have paid for the workshop online by credit card. All supplies for this workshop are the responsibility of the participant.
Cancellations made through June 23, 2025 will receive a full refund. If you cancel after June 23, there will be no refund unless there is a waiting list and someone can take your place. If workshop is cancelled by Hawaiʻi Handweavers’ Hui, a full refund will be issued to those registered.
For more information about this workshop contact Joan Namkoong.
Hawaiʻi Handweavers' Hui members receive a discounted workshop fee. If you are interested in becoming a member please click HERE.
For more information about HHH contact: classes@hawaiihandweavers.org
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