HI all.... I just joined this group and am going to jump right in. That Weave-zine article lead to teaching a class on weaving with wire. I've taught landscape design and knitting but never weaving-- I've only been on the student end of that relationship! This will be a 7 hour class and I imagine we'll break a bit for lunch. Students are supposed to be comfortable weaving on an RH loom. I wonder if I could get a little advice on a few things:
What's the right balance of talking/demoing and hands on weaving? I'm thinking about half hour demo/lecture bits with an hour of weaving time in between. We'd end up with about 3 hours of weaving and a half hour of figuring out warps, designs and so forth. About an hour for introductions and class overview and then a half hour each of talk on warping, weaving and finishing.
Do you think it's better to go over a lot at first or to get warping and weaving right away? The way I have it set up now, it'd be a little over an hour before students get their hands on the wire.
Do you think I should I bring my loom and warp it there so they can see the process or bring it warped so there's something to demo on? I can always demo warping on a student's loom, but have sort of mixed feelings about that when it happens to me.
Any advice would be helpful! Thanks!!
marie