Paper weaving patterns design

I've got paper weaving on the brain. Everywhere I go I see new designs I want to try out, but I'm still working through an incredible source of inspiration, the Woven and Constructed exhibit that happened in conjunction with the recent Lotus World Music Festival. You can read more about my first design here. My second design, also inspired by an African textile, was much less difficult to plan and execute but, in a way, I found the simplicity and balance to be much more pleasing. Here is the…

Learn how to weave with paper with our tutorial. There's 3 paper weaving card projects to choose from showing you a variety of techniques.

Triaxal Weave/Striped Tote — Crafty Staci

I recently completed a 30 day online class run by Helen Hiebert called Weaving Through Winter. The class had a very open structure, Helen did a 30 minute video introduction each week on a theme and workshop participants could take the concept and run with it. We posted pictures of what we made and offered comments and suggestions to each other. It was a wonderful daily practice and meditation. If you want to see all 30 of my pieces check out my Instagram posts at @gina_pisello. I will show…

Art Lesson: Paper Weaving (with Templates) – Art with Mrs. Nguyen

For our paper weaving assignment, we modernized a skill that has been around for centuries. Students first followed a pre-marked template, and then came up with their own design to weave.

Use paper weaving to learn about color combinations, color-and-weave designs, and even weave structures without worrying about warp tension, yarn choices, or setts.

woven paper influenced by educational theories of Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) - looks like optical illusion

Osage Trail Middle School ART on Instagram: “My Art 2 students are starting their PATTERN project today! For this project we do a fun paper weaving. The students always enjoy this one…”

colorful, happy, perfect

I am SO excited to share this resource that I've been working on with you guys! After seeing some absolutely gorgeous paper weavings on Instagram, I was inspired to create one of my own! So I googled basket weaving designs, then used that to guide my paper weaving. That's when it struck me! What if there were designs or templates created specifically for paper weaving that made it easier for younger students to do too?! Note: I recommend this for students who have already done paper weaving…

The anniversary of this blog is coming up —July 7— and I post a special project every year to celebrate both this event and Tanabata. This year I am re-visiting the Orihime binding which was create…

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Straw Bag Design: Rosa Cha Woven handbag designs offer a sophisticated palette of colour, texture, pattern and scale for a truly unique fashion look. A wide variety of patterns can be made by chang…

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works in progress : Paper weaving days--lots of fun