About this Event
About the workshop
The workshop is designed to give you a thorough and intensive grounding in frame weaving, during the two hours you will learn how to weave on your own frame loom to create your own textile piece.
The workshop will last two hours and refreshments will be provided. As well as taking home your freshly woven piece and the full weaving kit (frame loom + weaving tools) you will also receive a free issue of Hole & Corner.
Please note there are two time-slots available on the 25th March:
- 11am - 1pm
- 3pm - 5pm
What you will learn
You will learn foundational weaving skills, such as warping techniques, weaving simple and complex designs and patterns, and finishing techniques. The aim of the course is to not only cover a range of styles but also encourage the student to develop his/her own distinctive voice as a weaver.
You can either choose to make a wall hanging, a table-mat, a clutch-bag, an abstract artwork, or you can just sample and practice the new craft.
Places are limited to 10 per workshop, ensuring Maria has enough time to be one-to-one with all participants and guide you through the process of weaving.
About Maria Sigma
Maria Sigma is an award-winning textile designer / weaver specialising in 'zero waste' ethical hand-woven textiles for interiors. She studied at Chelsea College of Art & Design and since she graduated in 2014, she has developed her own weaving practice in London. Writer of Weaving: the Art of Sustainable Textile Creation and teacher of Weaving From Waste Workshop.
By using exceptional natural materials Maria creates textiles and artworks for projects large and small, commercial and residential. So far, she has collaborated with exceptional interior designers, architects, fashion designers, furniture makers, magazines, brands and galleries such as Susie Atkinson Interior Design Studio, MAKE Hauser & Wirth Somerset Gallery, Hole & Corner Magazine, J.M. Szymanski | New York, Soho House, Selfridges and TOAST in amazing projects.
Inspired by her Greek heritage, in combination with love for maths and craftsmanship she make vibrant, but minimal, contemporary textiles. She strives to decrease to the minimum yarn waste and unnecessary cuts, carbon footprints, the use of machinery, water and electricity. By adhering to a ‘zero waste’ philosophy, she aspires to make hand-weaving an even more sustainable craft. Through 'zero waste' design and craftsmanship and by emphasising the texture and the raw state of the cloth, and removing any superfluous elements, she aims at producing honest textiles designed to become timeless heirlooms.
www.mariasigma.com
@mariasigma_woventextiles
About Hole & Corner
Hole & Corner is celebrating it's 10th year as a lifestyle brand celebrating and promoting creativity, craftsmanship, heritage and authenticity through digital, print and events. The name is inspired by an old English phrase:
‘Hole-and-Corner: adj, a secret place or a life lived away from the mainstream’
It is about people who spend more time doing than talking, for whom content is more important than style; whose work is their life. It’s about telling stories of dedication.
Hole & Corner magazine is published biannually, dedicated to stories of craft, beauty, passion and skill. It is distributed internationally, with stockists including Do You Read Me?! in Berlin, Athenaeum Niewscentrum in Amsterdam and 300 Barnes & Noble stores in the US.
www.holeandcorner.com
@holeandcorner
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Lab E20, East Park Walk, London, United Kingdom
GBP 75.00