Knotless Netting

MISSIONWe are a support group of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with the goal of advancing the appreciation of the Museums’ textile and costume collections. We are a Bay Area forum that provides lecturers, workshops, events and travel opportunities for artists, designers, aficionados and collectors of ethnic textiles, rugs, tapestries, costume, and contemporary fiber art.

Textile Arts Council

With instructor Kathy RoussoThis is a 2-day workshop:Sunday, October 18, 2020 (Day one)Sunday, October 25, 2020 (Day two).Please note: Tickets may be purchased by TAC members and up to one paying guest of a TAC member only. If you are a guest of a TAC member, purchasing your own ticket here, please email us at tac@famsf.org to let us know the TAC member yoyu are a guest of. Kathy Rousso will teach knotless netting or looping, a method used to make net bags. One of the earliest textile techniques used around the world, looping can be simple, figure-eight (hourglass), cross-knit, and single interconnected. Countries in the Pacific region and Latin America are especially known for net bags, such as bolsa, moral, chácara, shigra, and bilum.In a project of simple-looping around a solid form (gourd, bottle, vase, etc.), participants will learn how to begin, increase, decrease, and add more strands in lieu of a knot.Unlike knitting and crochet, the active single element thread goes through the previous hole. Methods of thigh or finger spinning are used to add to the end every 3 yards or so, which leads to no knots and thus a much stronger bag. To make it stretchier, loops are constructed bigger and looser.Materials list:<ul><li>Stiff cordage, such as sisal, hemp, waxed linen</li><li>Large eye, blunt needle</li><li>Scissors</li><li>Form to work around (such as a jar or vase)</li><li>Optional: beads to fit your cord</li></ul>Kathy Rousso has a passion for making contemporary baskets using traditional techniques from northwest coast basketry, Ravenstail, Chilkat twining, and simple-loop netting from Latin America. She has taught weaving, net bag-making, and basketry in Guatemala, Mexico, Alaska, and Canada. Her baskets are in private collections and on display in the Tongass Historical Museum in Ketchikan, Alaska, where she lives.On a Fulbright grant in 2001, she learned about Guatemala agave fiber techniques and worked with the Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena. Her research resulted in Maguey Journey: Discovering Textiles in Guatemala (University of Arizona Press) as well as numerous other publications and presentations.Learn more about Kathy at <a href="http://kathrynrousso.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://kathrynrousso.com</a>.Registration closes Tuesday, 10/13Please note, TAC’s exciting event opportunities are a benefit of your current membership in the Textile Arts Council. As a member, you are welcome to host one guest who need not be a TAC member, but they will of course be responsible for their own workshop fee. To become a member, or renew a lapsed membership, please visit our website at <a href="http://www.textileartscouncil.org/join-tac/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.textileartscouncil.org/join-tac/</a>.

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