Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

  • 2

    The Design Process

    • What is the Design Process for Weave?

    • Design Process for Weavers flowchart

    • Design Distillation

    • The Design Distillation Pyramid

    • A few notes about colour and trend forecasting
  • 3

    Concept and brief

    • Theme

    • What is a brief?

    • Your task

    • Exemplar brief document with notes

    • Blank brief document

  • 4

    Moodboards

  • 5

    Exploring Colour

    • A Brief Introduction to Colour Theory

    • Canva online colour wheel explorer

    • Exploring colour combinations

    • Exploring colour with paint

    • Yarn wraps

    • Your task...
  • 6

    Exploring Texture

    • Exploring Texture

    • Your task....
  • 7

    Exploring Pattern

    • Exploring repeat pattern

    • Pattern composition and media

    • Washi paper tape checks and stripes

    • Your task...
  • 8

    From design to woven structure

    • Translating design ideas into woven structures

    • Some approaches to translating design ideas into woven structures

    • The benefits of a blanket warp set up

    • Blanket warp weave files (.wif and .pdf)

    • 'Sketch’ weaving

    • Sketch weaving plain weave grid to print and edit

    • 'Sketch' weaving files (.wif and .pdf)

    • Interpreting a paper weave sample into a block weave

    • 'Paper weave' files (.wif and .pdf)

    • Brocade patterning

    • Teasel Brocade weave file (.wif and .pdf)

    • Weaving Triangles - various approaches

    • Triangles weave files (.wif and .pdf)
  • 9

    Evaluation

    • Evaluation

    • Exemplar Evaluation form
  • 10

    To conclude...

    • Thank you!