Love advancing twills? Want to create your own?
Join us for
a four-week workshop
July 19 -August 15, 2024
Add amazing possibilities to your design repertoire with this beautiful weave structure. Explore angles, undulations, shading, and points in advancing twills with well-known weaving teacher Janet Dawson.
Don’t wait – registration closes July 18!
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Take your projects from mundane to magical...
...without frustration or failed projects
Have you admired beautiful advancing twills in books or draft libraries and envied the designers? “Wow! That’s gorgeous…but way too hard for me to create my own.”
Or maybe you tried designing your own, only to get frustrated by drafts that weren’t weavable, or that looked, well, generic.
Say goodbye to those frustrations…
…because we’re about to open a world of possibility.
And you don’t need a bazillion shafts, expensive weaving software, or tons of experience, either.
Here are just a few of the designs you can create
Advancing Twills!
Start designing drafts that thrill you, in just four weeks
Here’s what you'll learn:
- Design an original advancing twill on 4-40 shafts
- Create beautiful designs combining angles, points and curves
- Fine tune the shading of an advancing twill from bold to subtle
- Reduce an advancing twill to fewer shafts, or expand it to more
- Mix and match threadings, treadlings, and tie-ups for an endless supply of new ideas
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What you get
- 10+ lessons covering every aspect of designing with advancing twills - available 24/7
- Video demonstrations showing how to think about and practice design
- Hands-on exercises where you create your own designs, step by step
- Live instructor access throughout the course
- Powerful, easy-to-use design tools including the Draft Editor and Twill Generator!
And here’s how we’ll support you, every step of the way…
- 60-minute Live Lecture diving deep into the material, recorded for those who can’t make the live session
- 60-minute Live Q&A session to get your questions answered (also recorded)
- Q&A forum built into every lesson - ask questions as they come up!
- 8-week access to all materials
About Your Instructor
Janet teaches weave structure and weaving technique at the Handweaving Academy. She’s taught thousands of students in her online classes, and gets rave reviews for breaking down and teaching complex ideas in a way that’s easy to understand.
“Good cloth, happy weaver” is her mantra. Her goal is not to dictate How Things Should Be Done, but to provide information and options that allow you to decide for yourself how to achieve good cloth and enjoy yourself while making it.
It is how the structure works, how it can be modified, what happens when you modify it, and the tools to do these things.
In most workshops we weave a structure to learn it, but in Janet's classes we learn the theory and mechanics and understand it better.
Then we design and weave it to reinforce that learning.”
Frequently Asked Questions
We do! The focus of our online school is helping weavers design projects that reflect their personal style and that thrill and excite them.
Our members learn about all aspects of weaving – color, weave structure and drafting, project design, and weaving technique.
One membership gets you access to dozens of courses, and we release a new live course approximately every four weeks.
You don’t need Academy membership to register for this class! Everyone is welcome.
No worries! You’ll learn how to design in this class, and you’ll get plenty of opportunities to practice, with step-by-step instructions.
Absolutely! This class will take you far beyond the 45-degree diamonds and X’s of traditional advancing twill. There are SO many more designs to be had than that!
You’ll learn to create angles, undulations, shading, and points in advancing twill – plus a whole lot more.
You don’t! The Draft Editor that you’ll use to create designs works in any browser, so the only thing you’ll need is a tablet or desktop/laptop computer. (We do recommend using a stylus for those using tablets, to make editing easier.)
The Draft Editor is easy to use. We’ll provide instructions and demos on how to use it, too.
You should be able to read a draft and be familiar with the twill structure before taking this class. You do NOT need to have designed your own drafts.
You can weave advancing twills on any loom with four or more shafts. In this class, most of the lessons and examples will use 8 shafts, but we will also discuss advancing twills on 4 shafts and more than 8 shafts.
Nope! You’ll design lots of drafts, and we’ll provide an optional project for you to weave if you like, but you don’t have to weave anything to complete the class.
You’ll get answers! You can post questions in each lesson’s built-in Q&A section, or ask them at the Live Q&A session that comes with the class. If you have a question, we’ll make sure you get an accurate answer!
Both! You get the best of both worlds.
The lessons are entirely self-paced (and available at the start of the class), but you’ll get live webinars and Q&A sessions, as well as an in-class discussion forum where you can get answers to your questions. The live sessions are recorded, closed-captioned, and transcribed for those who cannot attend “live”.
While the live portion of the course lasts four weeks, you’ll have access to all course materials and tools for four extra weeks after the course is done, for a total of eight weeks.
If you join the Handweaving Academy, you’ll have access to all course materials and tools for as long as you’re a member – as well as dozens and dozens of other classes, powerful design tools, and lots of live events.
We want our students to be happy! If you’re not satisfied with the class, you can get a full refund within the first 14 days. No questions, nothing to fill out, no strings attached. Just drop us a line.
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And I think that the Handweaving Academy teaches us how to put that piece of our soul into our weaving. Not to just be like everybody else, using textbook formulas, but to put ourselves into our weaving.”