Tapestry Workshop-Beginners to Intermediate

Pat Williams and Tommye Scanlin are teaching a tapestry workshop October 28-31, 2010. It will be held at Camp Mikell near Toccoa, Georgia. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from experts and have lots of fun too! If you are interested, please contact Tommye, Pat, or even me, Terri Bryson. The workshop is sponsored by Tapestry Weavers South.

Weft Interlock Details

I recently did some research on how to best use the joining technique known as "Weft Interlock." It turns out that it's a little more complicated than I had thought. I've posted details with photos on my blog, Tangled Web. Check it out.

Thanks for the tip, Jan!  Yes... this little trick is one that I finally learned from Archie Brennan.  I did a few photos about it at my website.  

The Archie Brennan Project

Check out the new blog about Archie Brennan at:

http://www.archiebrennanproject.com/

American Tapestry Alliance Educational Articles Link

I'm putting a link to this at the side bar to make it easier to find in the future.  But I wanted to note it here:

http://americantapestryalliance.org/Education/Edu_Articles.html

There are several informative articles at this page, including a glossary of tapestry terms, mounting solutions for finished tapestries, Archie Brennan's copper pipe loom diagrams, and more.  Check it out!

Hanging method--from Textile Museum's website

This description for hanging a textile with velcro might be of interest:

http://textilemuseum.org/care/brochures/hanging.htm

Show & Tell at the Folk School

This week of John C. Campbell Folk School classes ended yesterday with show and tell by all studio areas.  Here's the tapestry weavers' display--we were all very proud of everything accomplished--lots of hard work!

Posting to Tapestry Share blog

I wanted to mention to all who've found this blog--Tapestry Share--that it's one that I began a couple of years ago as a private one among several of my students and me.  I opened it for public viewing after about a year and have invited several other people to be authors along with me, folks who have been my students at some point or other tapestry teachers.  I welcome comments made to posts for the blog.  I'll be inviting others to be authors at some point in the future.  I hope everyone who finds their way here finds helpful and accurate information!

Teaching and learning about tapestry is very important to me.  I appreciate the wonderful teachers I've had in the past and hope to be able to share some of those skills that were so generously shared with me.  So... here's to teaching and learning!  Along those lines, I want to show the beginning of a class I'm currently teaching at John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina: