Weeklong Intensive: Overshot Weaving with Margaret Dugger

Date: Monday, July 27 – Friday July 31

Time: 10am – 5pm (daily!)

Description: In this workshop students will learn how to weave traditional overshot patterns! Also known as floatwork, overshot is a highly decorative and functional style of weaving with a robust history in the United States and Canada. Using four harnesses and two shuttles, students will be able to create complex and geometric cloth! Each student will begin the class with a historic threading and learn how to “tromp as writ” and “weave it square,” all without a treadling or tie up. This class will have a focus on the historic methods of weaving overshot patterns, but also time for play! Exploration with color, texture, and scale will be encouraged.

This workshop is best suited for those who have some experience weaving on a four-harness loom, and who have dressed a loom at least once before. However, one needn’t know what overshot is, or how to do it yet. That is the point of the class!

Advice, help, and guidance will be offered with setting up looms, but the emphasis of the class will be on overshot weaving. The instructor will provide warps based on students comfort and experience levels. Weaving has always been a home and space for all types of bodies, abilities, and ways of being in this world. All are welcome in this class.

Tuition: $425 + $55 materials fee

Note: We really want you to join us in the studio! Full and partial tuition scholarships are available to offset some of the financial burden of attending a class.

Please fill out the application here! You can expect to hear from someone on the CC staff within 2 weeks.

If you have any questions, email Jamie Boyle, Fibers Program Manager, at jboyle@contemporarycraft.org, or leave a voice message for them at 412-465-1628.

Materials: All materials will be provided

Location: Contemporary Craft, Timmons Studios (5688 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201). Note, this workshop will take place in the Fleischner Family Fibers Loft, which is on the second floor of the building.

There are 2 entrances to the Timmons Studios.

• One entrance is facing Butler Street. To access the Fibers Loft from the Butler Street facing entrance, there are a total of 32 stairs to ascend.

• One entrance is facing 57th Street. This entrance is accessible by ramp, with no stairs to ascend. There is a lift inside the building to access the second floor.

If there are accessibility accommodations we can provide, or if there is anything you would like us to know before you arrive, please feel free to call Jamie Boyle at 412-465-1628 or email jboyle@contemporarycraft.org.

Cancellations and Refunds: Workshop cancellations are decided three business days before the start date. If workshops must be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the entire class fee will be refunded by check, to your credit card, or Contemporary Craft account for future workshops.

Refund Policy: Student refund requests must be made at least three business days before a class begins. There will be a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given without three-business days notice. Processing of refunds takes approximately three weeks.

About the Artist

Margaret Dugger is an artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA.  Margaret engages with traditions of textile work and art making. She studied weaving under Amy Putansu at Haywood Community College, and graduated in 2018. Since then, Margaret has learned from so many teachers including Liz Spear, Susan Leveille, Tali Weinberg, and Jamie Boyle. Margaret is the caretaker of two parakeets, Uki and Lady Blue.