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Sunday, April 30, 2023

Weave a scarf in a day on a Saori floor loom Saori Santa Cruz

Meet Alcide and Mellisa International  Language teachers who scheduled a all day weaving class at the studio last week.


Alcide loves Yellow and they chose there colors to wind for the bobbins 




winding bobbins on the built in bobbins winders on  all saori looms



and now to weave!







mellisa's is off the loom!

next cam Alcide's 







wonderful weaving day !!!!💕😍


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a sneek peek of my newest saori garment I am designing and  sewing .more  photos to come soon




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 peaceful weaving in the california redwoods

JILL NICKOLENE SANDERS


Thursday, April 20, 2023

Spring has arrived watch weaving students learn at Saori Santa Cruz classes

 

Hanna had never done any fiber arts ever .  she will Graduate from UCSC next month with a history major. She wanted to learn to weave and came for a 2 hour introductory class and discovered the Fun and joy of saori weaving 


 Hanna trying on some of the garments i made with my saori weaving 
So cute 





another jacket 





 
how fantastic hanna!

choosing branches from our property Bay trees we cut and students can chose one for there weaving if they would like one.











HANNA  emailed me  a photo of her weaving hanging at her home, an amazing first piece!


sooo happy so much fun



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Joi  came back and wanted  to weave a white monochromatic scarf . I wound a cotton yarn warp for her , and threaded it for her  a few days ahead of the class. 



SAORI FREE STANDING WARPING FRAME CLICK HERE 


Beamed on threaded all comfortably away from the loom  with the amazing SAORI KENZO BEAMING AND THREADING TABLE TOP SYSTEM saori has so many accessories to make weaving  and warping and threading eaiser and faster.
 just carry the beamed threaded warp to the loom and  hang, hook up treadles and tie on tension and ready to weave!


 SAORI SANTA CRUZ  STUDIO'S PERGOLA STUDIO READY FOR JOI'S ALL DAY SCARF CLASS


 AND JOI BEGINS

learning a new tecnique 


 the class is over and what a beautiful scarf!









beautiful WEAVING JOI!!!








She will soak it home and it will be soft and drapey ! You wove  such a beautiful scarf Joi!





 These are the SAORI CH60 LOOMS i use in my classes. I want my students to be ergonomically fitted so i have looms with different heights and loom benches to adjust to their correct height as well. I have other models of saori looms but the off set cloth beams and the high back warp beam and sturdiness make these  student's  favorites.


I love all Saori looms but i especially love the the Saori 


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PEACEFUL WEAVING IN THE REDWOODS

JILL NICKOLENE SANDERS


my email is in my web site to schedule a classes 
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

weave a cowl on a Saori loom class at SAORI SANTA CRUZ STUDIO

 I love it when familes take a class together. Jill and Zoey came for a  intro class. It was Jill's birthday gift and she brought her granddaughter too for the saori try it intro class. 

 This is zoey's first weaving and it  turned out to be a darling cowl .



a video of them weaving on a the saori wx60 loom and the piccolo 40 loom.





the piccolo loom is a 15 lb light weight loom with a built in bobbin winder and  many features  that are found on the wider saori looms 

 saori piccolo40 loom here 



 the folding saori all wood fram looms SAORI WX60 LOOM GO HERE 


 video of ZOEY unfurling her first weaving







and jill's  hanging was super cute too! WHAT  fun class.

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special  limited colored ready made warps up in my etsy shop

shop the ready made warp sections  click here SAORI READY MADE WARP SECTION OF MY ETSY SHOP





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LOOK FOR THE NEW LOOM BAGS I HAVE FINISHED CLICK HERE LOOM BAGS TO FIT THE SAORI LOOMS WILL FIT THE ASHFORD RIGID HEDDLE LOOMS 24" AND 32" TOO.




Native American themed thunderbird wool blend  georgeous blanket weave  fabric.







 full lenght zipper, web handles drawstring  so nothing  like velcro to catch on the warp when the loom is put into the bag.

PEACEFUL WEAVING IN THE CALIFORNIA REDWOODS
JILL NICKOLENE SANDERS




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