SPRANG is coming (sorry, couldn’t stop myself)

Carol James has always been interested in playing with strings and is of the opinion that anywhere is a good place to weave. Seeing her passion for diverse textile techniques, local military re-enactors asked her for reproduction sashes … sprang sashes, and Carol had to explore that technique as well. She quickly discovered that sprang can be used for much more than sashes. Here she is wearing a sprang shirt that was accepted in the HGA Convergence Fashion Show that never happened last summer! Wanting to learn more about sprang and the ways it has been used in the past, Carol has taken the opportunity to visit collections across North American and Europe. To better understand these items, she maps out the patterns, and has made replicas of some of these items for several important museum collections. She has also made modern wearables, which more than once have been accepted by the Handweavers Guild of America’s Convergence Fashion Show. Happy to share her knowledge, and hoping to provide an easier learning-curve for others, she has taught classes across Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Europe. Her students find her to be both patient and enthusiastic. Her students urged her to enter the world of publishing, making her handouts available as books. She is now the author of three books: Fingerweaving Untangled, Sprang Unsprung, Sprang Lace Patterns, as well as numerous articles and 2 DVDs.

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