Date: Friday, January 24th
Time: 2-5 pm
Location: Foldout Cat Booth
Instructor: Liza Wirtz (Q of The Foldout Cat)
Weave your heart! Learn to weave freestyle and free-spirited on a simple floor loom. Honor your inner sense of beauty and truth as you play with color, texture, and technique, and come away with a unique piece of woven art that reflects your creative spirit (yes, you do have one!). Students will learn basic skills of freestyle weaving on an approachable, easy-to-use two-harness floor loom designed for this type of weaving. A few techniques will be taught, but the emphasis of the class will be on exploration of color and texture in the service of personal expression. Students just need to bring their willingness to experiment and explore–and to practice imperfection! Students will take home what they weave.
Provided Materials:
Use of warped SAORI two-harness floor loom; use of associated tools (shuttles, bobbins, etc.); access to and use of a wide variety of different weaving materials, including yarn in various fibers, colors, and textures, embroidery floss, fabric scraps, fiber, trim, beads, wire, Mylar, etc. Each student will also get a bag of fibery treasures to keep; these can be used in class, in a future weaving, or both.
Price: YAC members $80 / non-members $82
Registration closes at 12 pm (noon) on January 22nd. No refunds will be given after this time.
Experience Level:
Class open to students 8 years old and up. No adult accompaniment necessary. No Experience needed.
Materials Needed: All materials provided by the instructor though students are welcome to bring special items to weave into their designs.
This class is part of the 2025 Fiber Festival. All classes are held at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center, which is located at 413 S. 14th St. Oxford, MS 38655 on the corner of University Ave. and S. 14th St. Visit the festival's website!
