A Premium Large Organic Tapestry Weaving Workshop | The Crafter's Box

Organic Weaving Premium Workshop

Name: Organic Weaving Premium Workshop
SKU: PREM201911
Price: 120.00 USD
Availability: InStock

From: $120

Play with color and texture with our organic weaving kit and workshop. Using a variety of fibers, textile artist Erin Barrett of Sunwoven Studio teaches you how to create texture and organic movement in beautiful, oversized art. Add the maple standing floor loom with an adjustable height and tilt so you can weave in total comfort and focus on the craft.

Under Erin’s expert guidance, you’ll explore color through placement, blocking, and various stitching combinations to hand make a large wall piece for your home. This meditative, organic style starts at the bottom of the piece and builds as you like it. And while our sample weaving pauses at 22 inches of woven work, your new floor loom allows you to build all the way to a 46-inch organic woven piece—just add on Erin’s original colorways so you have the necessary materials.

This workshop includes:

Tools and materials to create a colorful woven wall hanging
A detailed, digital workshop by Erin Barrett
A recorded Maker Chat Q&A with the artist

The specialty tools and materials in our organic weaving kit include:

Five skeins of ecru wool blend yarn
18 oz of Merino top wool roving in the colorway of your choice (choose below)
Cotton warp
Curved tapestry needle
Acrylic tapestry needle
Gold metallic lamé ribbon
Large dowel for hanging your finished piece
An optional custom maple standing loom (choose below)

Difficulty:: Beginner
Make Time:: A day plus
Kit Type:: Premium Workshop

Organic Weaving Colorways

This listing offers our extra roving in a brand new colorways in order to accompany Erin Barrett’s Full Premium Organic Tapestry Weaving Workshop. This materials kit is designed to continue making in Erin’s technique and provides enough roving for a second tapestry.

The materials included in this kit:

18 oz of Merino top wool roving in the colorway of your choice – a selection of four dyed rovings and one natural ecru.
- The Original Charleston
- The Sonoma
- The Tucson
- The Austin

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Maple Standing Tapestry Loom

Our custom maple floor loom, offered in both a 48 x 48" and 36 x 48" size, is designed in-house by The Crafter's Box and craftsman team Jeff & Cherie Kirschenman with artistic direction from artist Erin Barrett. When constructing a floor loom, we thoughtfully considered the areas that would bring accessibility and ease to a modern weaver. Our maple loom is sturdy and strong yet easily adjustable to a range of heights and frame body tilts. With a unique leg structure designed by the Kirschenman team, our loom sits upright for a standing weaver, drops to the floor for a seated weaver, and adjusts vertically to help with tensioning on smaller projects. After witnessing warping under strain in many looms on the market, we've added a custom brace to the middle of our loom to keep your projects straight and beautiful.

Our standing loom includes:

Custom standing tapestry loom made from hardwood maple in the size of your choice (36x48" or 48x48")
Adjustable bars for two different weaving heights
Adjustable legs for standing or sitting as you work

To learn more about our Premium Large Scale Organic Weaving Workshop explore our full workshop page.

Shipping rates include oversized shipping expenses for these extra-large boxes. Assembly is required. Due to the oversize-natured and weight of this item, this product is not eligible for any free shipping promotions. Please note that international shipping is set at a pre-negotiated price with our shipping provider to deliver these heavy, oversized boxes right to your doorstep. Shipping includes our international shipping provider’s oversize charge as well.

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ERIN BARRETT
ORGANIC WEAVING

Let's explore tapestry weaving on a custom, oversized floor frame loom under the guidance of weaver Erin Barrett.

We've paired the iconic weaving skills of Erin of Sunwoven with a custom maple floor loom - offered in both a 48x48" and 36x48" size - designed in-house by The Crafter's Box and local San Diegan craftsman team Jeff & Cherie Kirschenman.

When constructing a floor loom, we thoughtfully considered the areas that would bring accessibility and ease to a modern weaver. Our maple loom is sturdy and strong yet easily adjustable to a range of heights and frame body tilts. With a unique leg structure designed by the Kirschenman team, our loom sits upright for a standing weaver, drops to the floor for a seated weaver and adjusts vertically to help with tensioning on smaller projects. After witnessing warping under strain in many looms on the market, we've added a custom brace to the middle of our loom to keep your projects straight and beautiful.

Erin embraces texture throughout her work, her organic weavings move seamlessly between Merino roving, bulky weight yarn blends and shimmering lines of gold ribbon. The color palette Erin has curated for this first kit is an earthy color way balanced with a muted pastels. The ecru roving and tassels pull the whole piece together beautifully.

This workshop teaches a variety of weaving techniques allowing you to build and completely customize a tapestry unique to you. Explore color through placement, blocking, and various combinations to hand make a large wall piece for your home or a friend. This meditative, organic style starts at the bottom of the piece and builds as you like it. Our piece pauses at at roughly 22" of woven work and a matching length of tassels, your floor loom would allow you to build all the way to a 46" piece!

The techniques taught by Erin in this workshop allow for endless possibilities of continued creation. Find colors that you like, explore the technique a little bit more, and create something that’s completely unique to you.

A Custom Standing Tapestry Loom

We partnered with a local (to San Diego!) wood craftsman team to design a unique floor loom for our workshop. Our goal was to build a sturdy, universal standing loom for the modern weaver and we did so in two sizes to accommodate the preferences and storage needs of our community. Find this workshop paired with a 48x48" or a 36x48" loom.

Our small business partners this workshop include Jeff and Cherie Kirchenman. We rely on their expertise again and again as they help us construct some of the most well-designed weaving pieces on the market today. For this loom, we sought to solve many of the common frustrations weavers run into as they work. Features of our custom loom:

strong and sturdy in maple hardwood
completely adjustable legs for a variety of weaving positions (including weaving standing or sitting completely on the ground)
a deep groove along the top and bottom of loom to secure warp string really, really well (no slipping here)
an adjustable frame to shorten the height of the loom frame to keep tension on smaller projects
a sturdy back brace to ensure your woven (heavy) work does not warp as your weaving grows - this one loom adjustment works magic!

More About Our Artist: Erin Barrett

Erin Barrett is the owner and creator of Sunwoven, a small business founded in Charleston, South Caroline where Erin lives with her family.

Erin grew her business out of hobby when searching for a creative outlet five years ago. Prior to Sunwoven, Erin was a professional ballet dancer for seven years and eventually settled down to get married and her daughter, Sunny. What began as creative exploration turned into a blossoming full-time business. Today she explores different styles of making in various textile and weaving formats. You can learn more about her commission work and her shop at sunwovenstudio.com. Sunwoven has created recognized brand collaboration work through West Elm and Anthropologie.

Five years into weaving, Erin loves it more than ever! We are incredibly honored to welcome Erin to The Crafter's Box studio to share her incredible work with us.