Elaine Duncan

I just finished teaching an intermediate tapestry weaving course this past week.  Eight people attended from the Pacific Northwest area.  I had chosen the theme of Shapes and Shading.  The first day was spent designing a cartoon based on this idea and warping the looms.  The next three days were for weaving, looking at tapestries and discussing tapestry.  After the class on the second day we visited local tapestry weaver, Christine Rivers, who spoke about her work, showed her tapestries and answered questions.  Everyone found it very inspiring.  We had some wonderful show and tell during the first day by students who had been working on tapestries over the past few months.  Ann Robertson brought her completed tapestry on a loom and we all enjoyed the cutting off ceremony.  Marianne Sakik wove a small tapestry based on a sunset over the water.  She presented both the finished tapestry and the photo she had used for inspiration.  Cande Walsworth shared a photo of her pear tapestry she had worked on in a class this summer with Archie Brennan and Susan Martin-Maffei in Oregon which was organized by Pam Patrie.  Bertie Smiley showed us a tapestry sampler she had woven from an issue of Handwoven.  I think the class did very well with the theme and all left with inspiration and wanting to get together again next summer for another session.

Cande's cartoon and sampler from the class