Weaving Lace
with Sharon Bowles
$120
Experience Level: Must have completed Weaving I and II
Join other experienced weavers at Weaving Lace from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 11 in the Greenhouse Auditorium. This one-day session is designed for students who completed Beginning Weaving I and II who have their own looms*. Participants should come with their looms threaded from the pattern sent by the instructor for Huck Lace, Atwater Bronson Lace or Swedish Lace with a variety of fibers they have on hand.
At this class, instructor Sharon Bowles will help participants make a sampler of a variety of treadlings that will be woven into various patterns.
$120/person. Register by May 4. All sales are final.
If you will need disability-related accommodations to participate, please email Olivia Bunting at owarren@illinois.edu.
*Special arrangements may be made with the instructor to rent or use a loom and purchase fiber so the loom can be ready to weave on.
About the instructor
Sharon Bowles has been weaving for 33 years and has taught beginning weaving for almost 32 years. She was taught to weave in a one-on-one class and wove two table runners in 12 (approximately) 2-hour lessons, and she teaches the same method when she teaches. Sharon has experience in weaving with silk, lace weaving, 8-shaft pattern weaving, parallel weaving, block weaves, and Shaker reproduction towels.
-
May 11th, 2024
from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
