Rya Frame Weaving: Exploring Colour, Detail, and Contemporary Motifs in the Knotted Surface
Saturday March 16
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Miriam Parkman
Materials included
Students: 12
In this workshop, Miriam Parkman invites you to explore the hand-knotted rya medium and the ways you can create depths, shading and texture using different types of yarn, lengths, densities and colours. With a heavy focus on individual expression and design, the workshop also includes a hands-on sketching technique to understand the cut surface look and layered construction of rya. After your workshop, you will bring a sample(s) home that can be used as a sketch to transfer into a larger weaving or hung on the wall as a small tapestry. Miriam will bring samples of her own work to the workshop and a digital slideshow of larger pieces as inspiration. The workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced weavers alike.
Miriam Parkman is a Swedish textile artist and hand weaver, based in Stockholm. She graduated from Handarbetets Vänners School in 2016 and have been working professionally since. She's one of six members in the weaving collective Studio Supersju, founded in 2016, and shares her time between the group work and her own work, in exhibitions, public commissions and web shop products. Miriam visits Toronto for the first time in connection with her and Sandy Lamb's exhibition "Knotwork" at Craft Ontario. You can find Miriam on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/miriamethel