Saori 3-Day Intensive Workshop

We are excited to offer a 3-day intensive workshop with internationally authorised SAORI teacher Heather Walters, with accommodation included. SAORI is an exciting way of free-style weaving which allows anyone to create unique handwoven cloth, and you will have the opportunity to discover and explore your own unique creative expression through weaving. Heather opened her Art Weaver SAORI Studio in Victoria in 2014 after studying contemporary SAORI weaving at Saorinomori in Osaka and has been teaching this contemporary form of expressive handweaving to hundreds of people ever since. (For more information see www.artweaver.com.au) This workshop will suit complete beginners through to very experienced SAORI weavers.

Proposed agenda for the workshop:

Day 1: First time and experienced weavers - introduction/review of SAORI approach to weaving and exploration of techniques including, for example, clasped weft (2 shuttle “shadow weave” & 3 shuttle shapes), changing weft shape (independent woven shape inserts), ripple weave, finger/shuttl…