Lesson Plan #
What to Bring
Each day in class bring Scissors, Multimeter, Masking Tape, Pencil, Folder for Paper and Samples, Arduino Kit. Also have your loom (or whatever weaving accessories you need for the day)
Week 1
8/28 - Class Introduction
- Setting Community Norms
- Questions about How Class Will Take Place
- Paper Weaving
- Required Supplies
- Due 8/30 - Read Annie Albers, On Weaving, “Weaving, Hand”, pp 20-22
8/30 - Design Philosophy & Documentation
- Sampling
- How to Take Good Photos
- Review Weeklies Templates
- Equipment Checkout
- Begin First Weekly, Make a Book Loom, Due 9/6
- Read Annie Albers, On Weaving, “The Loom”, pp 23-43 and images on pp 83-89, due 9/6
Week 2 - Structure and Resistance
Monday - 9/4 - Labor Day, No Class
Wednesday - 9/6 - Loom and Multimeter
- Review Book Loom Results
- Evolution and Sociology of Looms + Loom Parts
- How to Measure / Multimeter Parts
- Begin Weekly 2, Making Soft-To-Hard Connectors, Due 9/11
Week 3 - Warp
9/11 - Anatomy of Yarn
- Weekly 2 - Connector shareout
- Loom and Multimeter Parts Quiz
- Types of Yarn
- Conductive/Resistive Yarn and Materials Experiments
- Choose Your Warp Materials
9/13 - Warp
- Wind Out Warp + Obey the Lease Sticks + Tie the Cross!
- Transfer Warp to Loom and Wind Warp Beam
- Thread Heddles
- Tension to Fabric Beam
- Weave Tabby
- Begin Weekly 3, Due 9/18
- Read: Mastering Weave Structure, chapter 1 (plain weave)
Week 4 - Tabby, Overshot, Supplemental Wefts, Brocade
9/18 - Tabby and Plain Weave
- Weekly 2 - Cricket Weaving Shareout
- Cutting off and Finishing Samples
- PLAY OR GUEST LECTURE
9/20 - Supplemental Weft Techniques
- Partial Weft Insertations
- Routing and Connecting
- Winding Electromagents
- Begin Weekly 4 - Make a One Bit Textile
Week 5 - Drafting, Color and Texture Work
9/25 - Introduction to Drafting
- Weekly 4 - One Bit Textile Shareout
- Introduction To Drafting, Drawdown
- More Supplemental Wefts
- Overshot, Brocade
- Read Bertha Grey Hayes
9/27 - Color
- Pigments and Dyes
- Warp Painting
- Ikat
- Thermochromics, Photochromics
- Begin Weekly 5
Week 6 - More Looms, Structure, and Selvedge
10/2 - Harness Loom Weaving / Programming Structure
- Weekly 5 - Colorchange Shareout
- Introducing Rigid Heddle, Harness, Dobby, Jacquard.
- Drafting for Harness Looms
- Read Mastering Weave Structure, chapter 2 (twills)
10/4 - Twills and Selvedge
- Introduction to Twills + Unbalanced Structures
- Shading
- Weaving with a Floating Selvedge
- Introduction to Resistive Sensing
- Begin Weekly 6 - Weave a Sensing Circuit
Week 7 - When 1 and 1 make more than 2
10/9 - More Than 2D
- Weekly 6 - Sensing Shareout
- Floats and Interlacements Doing Wild Things
- Waffle
- Crepe
10/11 - Functional Yarns
- Shrink
- Elastic / Overtwist
- Dissolve / Compost
- Begin Weekly 7
Week 8 - Reading and Writing Structures
10/16 - Experimental Drafting
- Compound Structures
- AdaCAD
10/18 - Reverse Drafting
- Unpicking a Swatch
- Begin Weekly 8
Week 9 - Layers
10/23 - More Than 2D
- Capacitance
- Double Cloth Variations
- Multi-layer Weaving
10/25 - Functional Yarns
- Drafting by Cross-Section
- Block Drafting
- Begin Weekly 9
Week 10 - Topic: Electromagnetics
10/23 - Actuation
- Making Electromangetic Actuators
- Integrating Electromanetic Actuators
10/25 - Functional Yarns
- Drafting by Cross-Section
- Block Drafting
- Begin Weekly 10
Week 11 - Prepping For Final Projects
10/30 - Collaboratively Generating Proposals
11/1 - Refining Proposals
Week 11 - Steganography
11/6 - Coded Textiles
11/8 - Data Drafting
Week 12 - Final Check In - Sample Set 1
11/13 - Materials Deep Dive
11/15 - Structure Deep Dive
Thanksgiving Break
11/20 - Materials Deep Dive
11/22 - Structure Deep Dive
Week 13 - Final Sample Development
11/27 - In-House Play
12/29 - In-House Play
Week 14 - Community Weaving in B2
12/4 - Different Loom Configurations
12/6 - Materiality of Weaving
Week 15 - Final Presentations
12/11
12/13
Guest Lecture Bios and Information #
This course is co-scheduled with the Experimental Weaving Talk Series. You can use the link from the talk series to learn more about each guest speaker and their work.