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Michael, I meant to ask the very same question for a long time and would love to hear from students who have learned card weaving in a class like this. My beginners class is very much the way you describe it. I use 10 cards with a threading of dark-light-dark-light which gives you a shadow weave effect and something interesting/different on the other side. I also use an oversized card with fat yarn and people's fingers as weft to create and analyze the structure. This demonstration is always very much appreciated. In the beginning I used 4 cards but now boiled it down to just one card which works much better. Students first weave waves, then diamonds to get a feel for the cards, the turning, flipping, not flipping, tension... We then get into simple patterns starting with a diagonal line. After a while I pull out a sheet of about 10 pattern and have them go for it. During the class most people will only try 2 patterns but they have something to shoot for when they go home. I have used this approach for a while but I'm still not sure if I encarouge my students to keep going or if they conclude quickly that card weaving is not their cup of tea. Maybe my question is not "What is easy?" but "What gets people interested?". Thank you very much for your posting. Gudrun Send private reply to Gudrun Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
