Summer Tapestry Workshops at Moon Rain

Moon Rain Centre for tapestry arts is a small non-profit organization dedicated to integrating creativity and harmony in the community through the creation, exhibition and teaching of tapestry arts. The name Moon Rain refers to the mystical connection between the moon, weaving and the cosmos. Located in the Gatineau Hills, north of Ottawa/Gatineau, Canada, Moon Rain is known for its unique approach to creative tapestry weaving.

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Spider Woman's Apprentices

Spider Woman is the Navajo weaver spirit. It is she who gave the gift of weaving to First Woman. During these workshops, participants explore and develop their own creativity using tapestry weaving techniques and practices that have been developed at Moon Rain over the past 30 years. Working from a place of inner knowing, participants learn to weave while staying centred in what the Navajo's call "the beauty place" of weaving.

Level One: In the Beginning

A workshop for absolute beginners

July 14 – 15
July 21 – 22
September 15 – 16

This weekend workshop is intended as a first introduction to the art and craft of tapestry weaving. Participatnts explore and practice basic tapestry weaving techniques on small frame looms. While learning to blend colours and build woven shapes, participants discover the flow of weave, as they created a small tapestry to take home. Simple yet powerful, this workshop is an ideal introduction to the path of tapestry weaving.

$175 includes materials

Level Two: On the Path of Weave

Developing skills and learning

July 23 – July 27

Earth and Sky provides our home and nourishes our spirit and creativity by revealing its great beauty. In this workshop the patterns of nature inspire woven tapestries. Participants explore in depth  the entire tapestry weaving process from sketching visual ideas, freely adapting tapestry weaving techniques to create, finish and present a completed tapestry. Participants are immersed in the flow of  tapestry weave, letting their creativity expand and flourish as they establish their own footing on the path of tapestry weave.

$395 includes materials
prerequisite: Level One

Level Three: Direction on the Path

Mentoring

This specially adapted programme responds to unique questions and concerns of individual advanced tapestry students. Emerging tapestry weavers learn to recognize and develop their own individual creative strengths. As they work from a place of inner knowing they discover their own inner guidance, which empowers their individual path to becoming participating creative members in their own communities.

prerequisite: Level Two and portfolio

Level Four: Weaving and Culture

A workshop for teachers, arts educators and cultural facilitators

Weaving transmits the energy of Peace. It has a calming, harmonizing effect on people- especially on children, so is an excellent tool for today’s classrooms and community centers. This workshop teaches simple creative weaving skills and projects that are suitable for all ages, abilities, and cultural programming budgets. In this workshop participants learn how to turn the family ragbin into woven art projects, how to make simple frame looms and weave on them,  how to make cloth looms and more.

prerequisite: Level Two

workshop fees include all materials

camping available on-site