The art of weaving tapestries is making its way straight from the Middle Ages to Allan Hancock College. The college’s Community Education Department is now offering two sessions of Beginning Tapestry Weaving, to be held on Saturdays Jan. 30 through Feb. 27 and April 10 to May 1, for a fee of $65.
Enrollees will learn basic tapestry weaving techniques and will explore choosing warp and weft yarns, making butterflies, and building woven shapes, waving lines, and more. Students will also get to weave a sampler piece incorporating a wide range of designs, such as abstracts, portraits, and landscapes. At the end of the class, students will turn to mounting techniques by transforming their final tapestries into wall hangings.
Led by Myla Collier, both class sections will meet at the college’s Santa Maria campus on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room S-110. No prior weaving experience is necessary.
Registration is currently being taken at the Community Education building on the Santa Maria campus.
More class details are available in the Spectrum schedule of Community Education classes, available at all campus locations or online at hancockcollege.edu.
For more information, call the Community Education Department at 922-6966, Ext. 3209.
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 4, 2010.