Pattern Systems Paper Weaving

In this paper weaving workshop, students will learn new patterns including plain weave, several twills, and basket weave. Students will learn the definition of warp and weft and how patterns are used to make the weaving balanced, warp faced, or weft faced. Once you weave these patterns you will notice them all around you in woven garments, upholstery fabrics, architecture, etc.

After the introduction to pattern systems, we will get more playful and experiment with color, found materials, collage and other other methods to push ideas of interlacements and patterns.

Students are encouraged to play with color and found materials to explore how they can connect patterns of their day to day into abstract woven interpretations.

Materials will be provided: Students are encouraged to bring any paper items they have to recycle into these new works. This could include; paper scraps, packaging, mail, wrappers, recycling, newspaper, magazines

The workshop is led by artists in residence.

Sofia Hagström Møller has taught at several schools in Denmark and in the USA. She graduated in 2007 as Cand. Des. from KADK’s Design School. Master’s in Textile Design. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues including; Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery Madison WI, USA, Vetlanda Museum, Sweden, Køng Museum DK and the Swedish Embassy in Copenhagen, DK.

Trained as a weaver she excels at using sophisticated color combinations, experimental materials and weave bindings. While steeped in tradition, Hagström Møller’s work focuses on expanding weaving to take on new sculptural forms and personal narratives.

Marianne Fairbanks is a visual artist and associate professor in Design Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spanning the fields of art, design, and social practice, her work seeks to chart new material and conceptual territories, to innovate solution-based design, and to foster fresh modes of cultural production. Informed by sophisticated textile traditions, bold graphic abstraction, and sculptural forms, her work destabilizes conventional gender-based value systems of hard and soft form-making, and encourages a deep engagement with our material world. National and international exhibitions include Køng Museum, Denmark, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, Museum of Wisconsin Art, Racine, Wisconsin, The Roshka Museum of Craft and Design, Gothenburg, Sweden, and The Museum of Art and Design, NY. She received her MFA in Fibers and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA in Fibers from the University of Michigan.

This workshop is for adults aged 18 plus

This workshop is part of a public engagment programme for our artist resident scheme which means the ticket price covers only the materials. If you are able and wish to we have an option to donate to Jelly.