Weaving a Pictorial Bird with Roy Kady (Saturday, June 3)
Join instructor Roy Kady and learn advanced tapestry weaving techniques, including yarn/color blending, to capture the lifelike look of a bird. In order to start the bird at the beginning of the workshop, students should bring an upright loom that is pre-warped, dressed, and pre-woven approximately 4 inches up. Students will also need to bring weaving tools (battens, darning needles, etc.); a gray sharpie marker; tracing paper; masking tape; and two colored prints of the bird they wish to weave. Students should bring multiple colors of any skinny, medium, and plied yarns they might like to use. Yarns to complete your bird can also be purchased from the instructor.
Date & Time
Saturday, June 3rd from 9 am to 4 pm (with a one-hour lunch break)
Skill Level
Advanced
Material Fee
None. The instructor will have sample yarns on hand for use for a $35.00 fee if desired. This fee is payable directly to the instructor at the start of the workshop.
About the Instructor
Roy Kady passionately weaves and creates with natural fibers to center himself in the cosmos of the universe. His ancestors, grandparents, and his Shimá (Mother) shared with him many stories that weaving was gifted to us in the creation world by Spider Man by taking the natural elements of the universe to construct the first loom and then teaching his counterpart Spider Woman about weaving a web of life. Roy raises a very special breed of Navajo-Churro sheep that was gifted to the Navajo people in the underworld. They have long dual fibers which make them very suitable for the fiber arts that he pursues, whether it be a utilitarian wearable or an art décor for the collector.
Roy’s designs are inspired by his natural surroundings—whether it is colors for his palette, natural fibers of the world, or stories that he has heard from the past and present. He hand processes all of the natural fibers that he creates with and grows several fibers to include in his art as well. He gathers plants to vegetal dye his fibers to create one of a kind woven pieces. His creations represent his heritage: traditions and the ever evolving Art of Navajo Weaving, considered to be one of the last primitive processes still created by hand.
Roy remembers sitting by his grandparents and watching them work with natural fibers; this was his first inspiration to someday become a fiber artist. He remembers wanting to learn the many beautiful processes of working with natural fibers, using our natural surroundings, and thus has been weaving since the age of nine.
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