Furniture Design: Introduction to Danish Cord Weaving
Preparing the Frame: Layout and Nails 1
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Explore basic techniques for weaving furniture and decorative objects with natural fibers to make unique and durable designs
Joined April 2021
About the video: Preparing the Frame: Layout and Nails 1
Overview
“Before you begin to work with the cord, it is good practice to lay out your pattern and set your L-nails. ”
In this video lesson user6517373 surname6517373 addresses the topic: Preparing the Frame: Layout and Nails 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Furniture Design: Introduction to Danish Cord Weaving. Explore basic techniques for weaving furniture and decorative objects with natural fibers to make unique and durable designs.
Partial transcription of the video
“Preparing the Frame: Layout and Nails In our previous lesson, we talked about selecting your frame. Now, we'll go ahead and set the warp and the weave to begin our weaving. The warp will be the section that goes across the piece this way, while the weavers are these horizontal pieces for any piece, that's the way you'll want to set it up. The weave has a bit of horizontality to it and that will be the most pleasing in this rectangular frame. One credible thing in Danish cord weaving and most weaves that you'll do is that you'll have an uneven number of pairs. So an uneven number of warp pai...”
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Course summary for: Furniture Design: Introduction to Danish Cord Weaving
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Arts & Crafts, Decoration, Fiber Arts, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Upcycling, Weaving
A course by user6517373 surname6517373
Heide Martin is a designer specializing in furniture and houseware. After graduating with two degrees in landscape architecture and urban design, she realized that her true passion lay in making things by hand. Inspired by her hobby and her carpenter husband, Heide went on to study an intensive woodworking course where she honed her skills.
Since then she’s worked with brands including Laura Mercier, contributed to Fine Woodworking Magazine, and started her own studio alongside her husband where she practices her passion for handmade woven surfaces. Heide has also been a resident and visiting artist at San Diego State University, Maine College of Art and Design, and more. As well as selling and exhibiting her work internationally, she has taught furniture design at Escuela de Artes y Oficios Santo Domingo, and assistantships at the University of Washington and Center for Furniture Craftsmanship.
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