Drop In Wool Rug Weaving - The Amisk Rug
Drop In Wool Rug Weaving - The Amisk Rug
For students who have taken our rug weaving workshops and want to weave another! A refresher will be given and then you’ll get to weave another rug. Price includes loom rental, warp and loom set up fee, and all weft materials.
Drop In Students should have experience weaving a weft faced project, and be comfortable working with two shuttles on a four treadle floor loom.
After a brief demo and a little practice time, you’ll weave your rug in a mostly self directed fashion. Fern is available for questions and trouble shooting.
When you purchase a drop in, students can drop in ANYTIME DURING THE HOURS LISTED BELOW for the corresponding months. Depending on your speed, you will need approximately 6-15 hours of weaving to complete your project.
ALL FINISHING (FRINGE CUTTING & TWISTING, STEAMING, ETC .) MUST BE DONE AT YOUR OWN HOME. WE DON’T LEND OUT TOOLS TO FINISH YOUR PROJECTS.
JUNE DATES: June 18 1-6pm, June 19 11-3pm, June 25 1-5pm, June 27 11-4pm
ALL PROJECT MUST BE OFF THE LOOM JUNE 27 AT 3:30PM
Weave a weft faced wool and linen rug. Using wool from Briggs and Little, Canada’s oldest woollen mill, the rugs weft is 100% wool while the linen warp lends the rug qualities of strength, non- stretchiness and firmness. Customize the rug by selecting two weft colours.
The project is a two block design woven in a two-tie unit weave. Similar to Summer and Winter, this two colour rug will have different dominant colours on each side.
Finished Dimensions approximately 24” × 34.5” after finishing.
The design was created by Fern, inspired a dear friend’s home on Amisk Lake in Alberta’s boreal forest. A weaver herself of many decades, her log cabin home is lined with handwoven rugs. Amsik is the Cree word for beaver, the iconic animal we’d often see when dipping in the lake after a traditional Finnish sauna.