Casa dos Artesans – Ribeira Sacra
Holiday cottage in rural Galicia (sleeps 2 - 5). Experience spectacular scenery, rural life, wine, art and Spanish craft. Learn basketry or textile weaving on holiday or visit the nearby craft workshops. "Lovely furnishings, colours ... and comfy beds" (client comment). |
Book review – Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves (Ann Richards) reviewed by Anna Champeney Estudio Textil (Galicia, Spain). Weave design, collapse weave, How to weave with active and stable yarns. Exhibition of collapse fabric textiles at Handweavers´ Studio (London) – May 2012 featuring work by Lotte Dalgaard, Anna Champeney, Ann Richards and other international weavers. Design details of “Minstrel” scarf, pleated angora, wool and nylon yarn by textile designer and weaver Anna Champeney, exhibitor, which can be seen in the exhibition 18 May – 13 June 2012.
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Video link with demonstration of collapse weave by Anna Champeney, weaver (north Spain) and masterclass pupil of Danish master weaver, Lotte Dalgaard. So-called active and stable yarns, interwoven on the loom, result in wonderful textural fabrics with crinkles, pleats and folds. Anna Champeney Textile Studio also offers cottage accommodation for visitors and pupils, hand-weaving courses, sale of fine linen for hand-weavers, traditional Spanish folk textiles and art textiles to order.
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Expert Danish weaver, Lotte Dalgaard, came to give a masterclass on collapse weave at Anna Champeney Textile Studio in Galicia, north Spain, in September 2010. 7 professional Spanish weavers came together to learn special techniques for using high twist, elastic and other very fine active yarns, in combination with so-called stable yarns (like cotton, superwash wool or linen) to make the fabulous pleated, folded and crinkled textiles that Lotte weaves into one-off, loom-shaped garments. High quality, hand-made textiles like these are the future for hand-weaving in Europe. Also, in same blog: International Basketry Fair in Salt (Girona, Spain) – Spanish crafts for christmas online – Fine linen yarn for hand-weavers – hand-made linen buttons
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Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves by Ann Richards – Exhibition and book launch in London May 2012
Book review – Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves (Ann Richards) reviewed by Anna Champeney Estudio Textil (Galicia, Spain). Weave design, collapse weave, How to weave with active and stable yarns. Exhibition of collapse fabric textiles at Handweavers´ Studio (London) – May 2012 featuring work by Lotte Dalgaard, Anna Champeney, Ann Richards and other international weavers. Design details of “Minstrel” scarf, pleated angora, wool and nylon yarn by textile designer and weaver Anna Champeney, exhibitor, which can be seen in the exhibition 18 May – 13 June 2012.
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