We are excited to offer you an all skill-level tapestry weaving workshop from accredited craft educator and weaver, Hannah Watson. 

10am-1pm

Sunday, July 26th, 2026

Shop Lyko Slow Goods Backyard Garden

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In this approachable tapestry weaving workshop, students are asked to incorporate a material from their own story and bring it into a new context while practicing the skill of weaving. Students are asked to bring meaningful remnants from their own personal life, such as a lost dogs leash, strips of a dear ones old tee shirt, or a child’s first haircut trimmings, shoe laces, fishing line, leather, - to integrate with provided yarns, generating a third artifactual piece. This weaving could be an ode to a loved one, or a place, its personal to the weaver. Students will bring a journal and these personal items from home —- to enter into a dialogue of tactile textile language on a small lap loom.

 

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How do we create new meaning from memories?

How do we honor our story, or our loved ones through this tactile, considered craft?

We will gather in the backyard and patio space of Shop Lyko Slow Goods to learn meditative weaving techniques on a lap tapestry loom from a well-versed weaving expert, Hannah Watson.   

 

We will begin with a brief writing exercise on the symbolism of what we've brought to guide the meaning-making of our artifacts, then receive beginning instructions on how to warp our looms so we can weave!  You'll be free to station yourself comfortably around the garden or patio once Hannah has given her initial instructions.   

 

Students will leave the afternoon with a handheld weaving that speaks to the weavers personal story, as well as their very own lap loom kit to take home for future projects.

*Beverages will be provided by our neighbors at Sissy's Beverage Emporium to quench our summer Sunday morning thirst. 

*Additional weaving yarns will be provided to students if they wish to weave with them.

 

THIS CLASS INCLUDES:

One Friendly ‘Lap Loom A’ Weaving Kit -

* Laploom A - 12"x 16" wooden loom

* finished project - approximately 9"x14"

* Cotton warp string

* 6 tubes of colorful 100% pure virgin wool yarn (enough to complete 1 project)

* 1 tapestry needle

* 2 wooden shed sticks

* 2- 8" wooden stick shuttles

* Illustrated instructions

*Retails $56.95 plus $13 shipping

 (We are including this loom kit as part of your class fee for you to take home.) 

 

* 3 Hours Class Instruction with accredited Craft Educator and Weaver, Hannah Watson in a small class setting.

* Additional thread, yarn, shuttles and garden trimmings available.

* Refreshments provided by Sissy's Beverage Emporium. (~$10 value)

Class Fee: $125.00 (Value of ~$285) includes materials

***Schedule Local Pick-up at Checkout to bypass automatic shipping costs.***

 ***Email us at Contact@shoplyko.com if you'd like to opt out of our loom and bring your own tapestry loom for a discount.  If you're bringing your own loom, ensure you bring the supplies from the kit supply list, such as shuttles, as well.  *We will have some extra supplies available, just let us know what you need in advance if possible.  

 

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ABOUT OUR INSTRUCTOR

Hannah Watson (b. 1991, South Carolina) is a weaver, dyer, & mixed media artist whose work is driven by deep diving into the psychology of human development and connection to place, rhythm, color, and pattern. As her grandmothers were both textile artists and her parents jointly ran an architectural firm, her childhood was heavily influenced by cloth, architecture, and drawing. After earning her B.S. in cultural anthropology and costume design from the College of Charleston, she worked with a women’s weaving cooperative in the Sacred Valley, Peru in 2014 and then returned to South Carolina to work with an indigo grower & dyer.

Hannah pursued natural dyeing, weaving, and collage education at Penland School of Craft and John C. Campbell Folk School in western North Carolina and completed a Professional Craft degree in Textiles at Haywood Community College in 2019. In 2018, she won a design award through the Handweavers Guild of America and has shown her work at galleries across the Carolinas and the Pacific Northwest, including Cloth Fiber Gallery, the Fine Arts Center, the Folk Art Center, the Asheville Area Arts Council, and Portland State University. 

She currently lives in Portland, OR as a textile artist and as an instructor at WildCraft Studio School. Hannah also travels to teach weaving workshops at studios like Wool Friends weaving school in Seattle, Atelier in Reno, and nationally recognized weaving guilds around the US.

 

Learn more at www.hannahwatsontextiles.com