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Thursday 1 September 2016

Weave and Dye Workshop

Work with The Pom Pom Girls to get to grips with the basics of weave using a wide range of materials. With a treasure trove of exciting colours and textures you’ll dig in to learn how to weave by hand. You’ll combine second hand found embroidery threads with other textiles such as, wool, mohair and cottons with plastics to create your own yarns. From here you’ll go on to learn how to make your own dyed, patterned and printed fabrics to use within your weave. Using all the up-cycled fabrics you made you’ll end the day with your own hand woven piece.

Recycling is a huge part of society today, whether it’s taking clothes to charity shops, recycling paper, re using shopping bags, even huge chain stores such as H&M use recycled clothing to create new garments. The Pom Pom girls have a devised an innovative way of taking recycled materials, such as plastic bags, recycled clothing, scraps of threads and yarns and using them to create woven fabrics.

Together, we will investigate how these different recycled materials can be renewed and reinvented by using dyeing methods and by manipulating the materials, such as tying, plaiting, cutting and ripping etc. You will be able to discover what materials you feel you work best with by completing a range of experimental samples before moving onto your final piece.

During the session you will develop weaving skills in hand weaving. Hand weaving is a technique that is not as commonly used in this day and age, due to larger and faster looms becoming available. The Pom Pom girls are keen to teach this skill as an accessible way to work in weave that is easy to continue with at home.

Overall this workshop intertwines the specialist areas of print, 3D design and weave to give you the opportunity to try out a range of processes and end the workshop with your own professional standard woven piece.

This workshop is for adults only. We also run Summer Schools for Young People.

Course Fee: £40

Please book using the MMU Online Store.

Also see details of other Short Courses at Manchester School of Art during Summer 2016.