Les Textiles Streaming
Janie Mccorey
The School of Weaving (formerly called JST Online Guild) launched in January 2017 as a response to weavers wanting to come to Salt Spring Island to study in our studio. Our wait lists were getting longer and longer each year, so Jane decided to try a different approach. This was to take the beginners workshop she offered, flesh it out with more wonderful content and offer it by way of streaming on the great interweb. The immediate response spurred her on. She decided to take every one of her workshops, expand them in greater detail and now we have over 280+ videos available online.
The first year goes over all the fundamentals of weaving. Warping, various methods of dressing the loom, great weaving technique, project planning, understanding sett, information about different types of looms and yarns, weaving with difficult yarns like mohair, fulling and finishing.
Season 2 lays the foundations of colour and design. The format is simple and easy, encouraging original design and making it accessible and fun. Concepts regarding colour theory, graphic, division of space and the architecture of design are laid down in a way that allows weavers to bring their ideas to reality.
Season 3 takes an in-depth look at Plain Weave. We get familiar with our reed exploring denting, cramming and denting, weft faced, warp faced, double weave, collapse weave and supplementary warp. All of these ideas are laid down on top of what we learned in Season 2.
Season 4 is absolutely twilling ? We explore threadings, tie-ups, treadlings, colour and weave, big threadings, and little threadings and end up harnessing the power of 4 shaft looms in regards to the twill weave structure.
Season 4 we dive into the world of twill structure and will overlay it with everything we learned in Colour & Design and Pushing the Boundaries of Plain Weave. This strong foundation will allow us to take 4 shaft Twills to a new level.
Season 3 pushes the boundaries of Plain Weave. We explore denting, cramming and denting, weft faced, warp faced, double weave, collapse weave and supplementary warp. All of these ideas are laid down on top of what we learned in Season 2 Colour & Design.
Season 2 lays the foundations of Colour and Design workshop. We learn about colour theory, graphic, division of space and the architecture of design, all presented in a way that allows weavers to bring their ideas to reality.
Season 1 goes over all the fundamentals of weaving. Warping, dressing the loom, weaving technique, project planning, understanding sett as well as different types of looms and yarns along with how to weave with difficult yarns like mohair.
Are the videos available for download?
Our videos are downloadable for a short period of time using our branded app only. You can also stream them over and over on your browser for as long as you are a member of the School of Weaving.
Season 2 has 7 workshop samples that you can follow along , Season 3 has 9 samples, Season 4 has 8, Season 5 has 9 projects, Season 6 has 7 and Season 7 has 8. Season 8 projects have projects for both 4 and 8 shaft looms except for 3 lessons where one is for 4 shafts, one is for 8 shafts and we have a basketry project that will be available for purchase. Each sample or project comes with a downloadable PDF pattern.
Years 2, 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7 & 8 all have samples. We have kits available for you to purchase in our Online Shop, but if you have the yarn in your stash we encourage you to use it. You get the draft with the video so you can even make substitutions.
Fantastic! Jane is so much fun to listen to and she is very informative. A year's membership is a fraction of what I have paid for in-person weaving classes and I've learned so much more - in just the first few lessons. I like that I can go at my own pace.
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Solving for textile waste in the United States can have a measurable global impact on the upstream investment of human and natural capital like oil, cotton, energy, water, and chemicals used to make textile products. Building systems to recover textiles requires strategic partnerships from across the recovery value chain. This paper outlines the essential elements of an ideal recovery system and describes a way forward to a circular textile economy.
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The main source of textiles in municipal solid waste (MSW) is discarded clothing, although other smaller sources include furniture, carpets, tires, footwear, and other nondurable goods such as sheets and towels. There also is data specific to clothing and footwear, and to towels, sheets and pillowcases.
This web page is a brief summary of textile material-specific data specific to MSW. For more comprehensive information, check out the 2018 Data Tables on the Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures Report page.
EPA estimated that the generation of textiles in 2018 was 17 million tons. This figure represents 5.8 percent of total MSW generation that year. Generation estimates for clothing and footwear were based in part on sales data from the American Apparel and Footwear Association. EPA also found that significant amounts of textiles enter the reuse market, but the amount of reused textiles is not included in the generation estimate. Reused garments and wiper rags enter the waste stream eventually and become a part of MSW generation.
The recycling rate for all textiles was 14.7 percent in 2018, with 2.5 million tons recycled. Within this figure, EPA estimated that the recycling rate for textiles in clothing and footwear was 13 percent based on information from the American Textile Recycling Service. The rate for items such as sheets and pillowcases was 15.8 percent in 2018.
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