Active Classes

Corris Effect Parts 2 & 3

Corris Effect Parts 2 & 3 explores double weave, 4-color double weave, warp rep, and more. Detailed designing for 8 and 16 shafts—a whole new perspective on familiar structures.

Fractured to Never Ending - Transform Drafts using Fiberworks

Course • 6 lessons

Interested in creating original weaving drafts? Fiberworks has tools to transform existing drafts or create new ones. This demo shows how to reduce, expand, fracture, and modify drafts uniquely. Focuses on 16+ shaft twills. Bring your laptop.

Polychrome Summer & Winter 2026

Course • 16 lessons

Summer and winter is a shaft-efficient structure perfect for graphic designs. Polychrome summer and winter adds color patterning without more shafts. This seminar reviews traditional structure, explores polychrome design, and ground cloth options.

How Shall I Be Complex? Let Me Count The Ways

Course • 11 lessons

This seminar explores how fiber content, color, sett, weave structure, scale, and finishing create complex textiles. We'll examine these properties individually and combined, considering how changing one or more applies to designing complex textiles.

Ancient Patterned Fabrics Found in Aegean and Egyptian Art

Course • 10 lessons

Ancient Aegean frescoes and Egyptian paintings show sophisticated patterned fabrics from the Late Bronze Age. I recreated hundreds of these patterns to prove they weren't artistic fantasy but real weaving techniques. I’ll share work over 40 years.

Bead Leno: From Three- to Multi-Shaft Designs

Course • 7 lessons

Bead Leno weaving isn't decorative but a powerful way to cross warp threads creating lace. This seminar defines bead leno, explores its operation, showcases variations, discusses loom setup methods for 3- to multi-shaft designs, and pros and cons.

Finish and Exhibit that Piece!

Course • 5 lessons

As fiber artists, we often struggle with finishing and display. This seminar addresses finishing and hanging decisions from the start of your work through completion, for home or exhibition, encouraging creative alternatives to traditional framing.

Drafting Innovations Using the Schultz System

Course • 5 lessons

My new double two-tie block design method uses parallel treadling arrangement. While particularly useful for block designs, that's not the best part. This seminar explores quadrants in the tie-up revealing loads of novel structures.

The Face-to-Face Velvet Powerloom Makes Inflatable Cloth for Decoy Tanks

Course • 3 lessons

Today Czech firm InflaTech produces fake armaments helping Ukraine fool Russia. They learned from WWII Bradford's Listers, who modified velvet powerlooms to create inflatable dummy tanks. Learn about Deceptive Textiles and Churchill's Ghost Army.

Complexity From Simplicity: Color and Technique Variations in Diversified Plain Weave

Course • 9 lessons

Diversified Plain Weave is a tied unit weave offering experimentation with color and technique. Its grid-like appearance makes individual units visible, perfect for pick-up and clasped weft. Contrast can be defined or muted, using only 4 shafts.