Nic shows the basics of weaving with a ground loom. Unpictured is the setting up of the loom, a process that can take longer than weaving itself. Nic coordinates the movement of the heddle to change the shed and ensures the beater stick stays paralell with the filler material. Above all, he emphasizes the importance of maintaining tension and strict adherence to the weaver’s mantra: fill, change, beat.

Peta explains how to use a precut template to form a card holder out of vegetable tanned leather. He cuts two profiles out of scraps with a utility knife, scores around the edge, punches holes for stitching, clamps the material together, and sews a saddle-stitch with waxed cotton thread to bind the two pieces together, burnishing the edges to finish.

|workshop photos by Melis Schildkraut|

This is one element of my undergraduate thesis. Special thank you to my advisors Luben Dimcheff and Lily Chi.