Turned Taqueté Workshop
Suzi Ballenger
Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25, 9-4PM
Turned Taqueté is a perfect opportunity to step into the fun of color as the basis for exploring pattern and geometry in weaving. You will be amazed at how easy it is to use color to create designs with this simple and diverse structure. Using color in Taquéte will convince you there are no “bad” combinations. You will learn how colors can create exciting shapes and designs that are individual and stunning.
In this hands-on class you will thread a pre-wound warp with a straight draw on 4 shafts. Keep It Super Simple! Your individual colors and treadlings will allow you to create multiple widths of squares, rectangles, lines, and crossed intersections. This is a chance for your personal aesthetic to come alive as you weave multiple designs from one warp. You will finish a stunning cotton towel that will brighten any room you use it in.
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Beginner and up. Must be able to read a draft and thread a loom.
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$325 + $10 materials fee
Students must provide a pre-warped loom (instructions will be provided after enrollment), weaving notions (including thread weights), shuttles, bobbins, extra cotton yarns for weft. The materials fee will be paid directly to the instructor at the workshop.
Instructor
Suzi Ballenger
Born and raised in Indiana, Suzi Ballenger, MFA, is a Rhode Island fiber artist and educator known for thinking outside the box. She has a curiosity for material that stimulates her language of hand and craft; believing the fullest expression of a fiber can be realized through observation, repetition, and structure. Every fiber has a personality – it is up to listen to it.
Suzi’s work is recognizable because of the self-designed tools and techniques she often uses that contrast transparency with density. The meandering, pathways of rhythm, are an unexpected linear element that demonstrate the intention of thought and handwork.