Paper weaving is a quick and fun way to play with color, image, and pattern—without a loom!

Even if you’ve never seen a weaving draft and don’t know warp from weft, you’ll be weaving by the end of the workshop. A paper-woven surface is also great for adding collage and mixed media to, so come explore the possibilities!

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Calling all curious and colorful weavers! This basket weaving workshop puts the FUN in fundamentals for all skill levels.

We’ll start with Japanese paper cord on the first day, which will get us accustomed to weaving a twined basket. You can continue to work with Japanese cord or move to waxed linen thread. Learn the basics of how to make bases, shape the side of a basket, finish rims, build blocks of twined patterns, and so much more.

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During this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Prepare a 3 yard warp out of wire, 3/8” to 1” wide
• Beam the wire warp onto a 4-8 harness small floor or table loom
• Weave the 3 yard woven metal warp to be used for jewelry or small sculpture
• Sculpt with woven metal fabric and various ways of connecting for different applications

Lectures will include information about applying the woven metal fabric for basketry, jewelry, 3D sculpture, and bas-relief 2D wall art.

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You’ve learned a tablet weaving technique or two. You’ve created bands following other’s patterns. It is time to take the next step and design your own pattern!

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This three-day workshop is open to all students, from beginner to advanced, who are interested in tablet weaving.

We’ll study three different techniques from three areas of the world (Rams Horns from Turkey, Coptic Diamonds from Egypt, and Sulawesi from Indonesia) and three different time periods.

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What are your next steps with this ancient braiding technique? Are you drawn to sprang lace, twining, or color patterns? Or do you need more time to train your hands and eyes in the basic stitch?

Join us for a day of individualized instruction, exploring some of the many possibilities for creating and using sprang cloth.

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Sprang is an ancient and mostly forgotten technique for creating elastic cloth two rows at a time.

Join us to get your fingers in the yarn and start braiding parallel threads on a frame. You will start with a pre-warped frame and learn all the steps of creating cloth and sewing it into a small bag.

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This workshop combines drawing and weaving, focusing on the relationship between drawing and tapestry: how the pencil can be a way of putting thoughts on paper in a manner that assists in tapestry design.

We will explore different approaches to describing shape and form, quality of line, and shaded areas, then look at how these translate to tapestry technique and design. At the loom, we will weave different types of woven lines, three-dimensional forms, and shaded areas.

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The Groove Artspace is a multifaceted organization, including a teaching collaborative (with 15+ teachers offering a huge array of arts and crafts classes), studios for working artists and artisans, a gallery offering monthly exhibits and a non-profit arm managing our community outreach and education work.  We have a strong focus on glass and mosaic, but our work encompasses all forms of handwork and artistic creation.

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Join Ruth Baldwin and Annie MacHale as they lead a vision board session! Gain inspiration from your fellow fiber arts enthusiasts and make intentions for a year of creativity and fun.

By visually representing your thoughts in a beautiful, playful, work of personal art, you can enjoy the creation of it and then put it in a prominent place in your home.

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To kick off our year of programming from nationally acclaimed teachers, we want to showcase the talents of our local community from first timers to experienced weavers, spinners, dyers, felters, rug hookers, and all things fiber arts.

Entries for the exhibition will be accepted from December 9, 2025 to January 16, 2026.

The exhibition will run from February 6 to March 8, 2026 with a special opening night on February 6.

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A technique that originated in northwest India, Ply- Split Braiding has been traditionally used in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to weave camel girths.

This fiber technique continues to be used to make traditional bands and mats; contemporary fiber artists also use the technique to make sculptural and vessel forms.

Working with cords spun by the instructor, students will make a small fiber vessel using one of the main ply-splitting techniques: Single-Course Oblique Twining (SCOT) method.

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Interested in expanding your weaving repertoire and creating vibrant and functional pieces?

The projects chosen for this three-day workshop build skills and familiarize students with weaving with paper. Students will make four baskets out of painted paper designed by the instructor.

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Fiber Arts on 4th is thrilled to be part of Handwork 2026, a national initiative organized by Craft in America that celebrates the power of making and the communities built through craft.

In honor of this celebration, PBS released episodes of Craft in America to spotlight regional crafts across four regions (North, South, East and West). We will watch the episode spotlighting the West, which includes a feature on New Mexico’s very own Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA).

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In this busy four-day workshop, Ann will introduce the off-loom weaving technique of twining as a method of creating contemporary woven sculptural forms.

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