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All About Weaving Twill!

Twill may be as familiar as your old blue jeans, but Robyn will show you new and unexpected ways to work with this ancient weave structure. Armed with her clear explanations and helpful weaving tips, and inspired by her sense of adventure, you’ll soon be inventing your own unique twill fabrics.

You’ll learn:

  • The basic twill types: straight, point, extended point, and broken twills
  • Twill variations, from rosepath and birds-eye to undulating, turned, and fancy twills
  • How to create double-faced cloth using unbalanced twills
  • Loads of tips, including how to determine sett and when to use floating selvedges
  • How to design twill gamps

About Robyn Spady

Robyn Spady

Robyn Spady has been weaving for over 40 years, and still weaves on the loom her great-grandmother used to weave her first baby blanket. She completed HGA's Certificate of Excellence (COE) in 2004 with the specialized study Loom-controlled Stitched Double Cloth. Robyn is fascinated by the infinite possibilities of crossing threads and loves coming up with new ideas to create fabric and transform it into something new and exciting. She is committed to turning the weaving world on to double-faced fabrics, four-shaft weaves, uncommon and advanced weave structures, and passementerie techniques. A frequent contributor to Handwoven Magazine, Robyn lives in Bremerton, WA

Reviews

Twill thrill!

“I learned more about twills as well as using a multi shaft loom than expected. Robyn has a great presentation style that does not leave the beginner wondering “what?”. Thank you for that! My journey is young yet but I am stoked for more!” - Marsha Gallacher

Basic Twill with Robyn Spady

“Fantastic! I've been weaving for 3 years, trying desperately to understand some of the weaving language around twills, and what they all mean. THIS course set me straight and I feel like it's the piece that was missing for me to 'get' patterns.” - Bev Hawkins

Robyn and Twills are terriffic!

“Robyn Spady is an excellent instructor. Her explanations are clear and succinct. The combination of diagrams, woven examples and Robyn weaving at the loom enabled me to grasp all she was teaching quickly. In little time, I gained a much better understanding of twill weaves now. Many thanks!” - MARTHA NARRO

Course curriculum

    1. What You Will Learn

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. About The Instructor

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Technical Support

    1. Video Lesson: Twill Structure

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Video Lesson: Types of Twill

    3. Types of Twill Continued

    4. Video Lesson: Twill Tie-Ups

    5. Twill Tie-Ups Continued

    1. Video Lesson: Weaving Straight Twills

    2. Key Points

    3. Video Lesson: Weaving Point Twills

    4. Video Lesson: Broken Twill

    1. Video Lesson: M & W Twill

    2. Video Lesson: Birdseye, Goose Eye, and Rosepath Twills

    3. Video Lesson: Twill with Novelty Yarn

    4. Video Lesson: Double-Faced Twill

    5. Video Lesson: Twill Gamps

    1. What You Learned

    1. Totally Twill Course Handout

About this course

  • $39.99
  • 19 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

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