Color Interaction & Design
- Tom Jipson

This is a class most weaving students need and yet many shy away. If you realize some of your weavings are much more successful than others, but are not sure why, this class offers the tool set to move you forward. To create what you imagine takes both weaving skills and the knowledge of color and design principles. This class is the critical step beyond learning to weave: learning to successfully design your own work.

We will focus on the interaction between elements within a design. Starting with basic design problems and progressing through a series of group and individual exercises, we will concentrate on attributes of color. This class will allow and encourage students the freedom to take chances you might not take working on a finished piece. It will teach you to ask the right questions and to get the results you want.

Students who have taken this class have had a ball, finding it fascinating and discovering that design could be the most satisfying component in producing beautiful fabric. It is the natural progression after your beginning weaving class (es), Color, Color Interaction and Design is a basic building block of your development as a weaver.

TOM JIPSON is a professional weaver and longstanding member of the League of NH Craftsmen. His beautifully designed and impeccably constructed shawls, scarves, blankets and throws are highly sought after at the annual League fair in Sunapee, NH, as well as at upscale craft shows in and around New York City. A widely respected instructor of both efficiency-oriented production weaving and labor- intensive Navajo weaving techniques, Tom has shared his considerable knowledge and expertise with many fortunate weavers throughout New England. With an uncanny ability to coalesce students of varying skill levels into a unified and mutually supportive group, his reputation for a high level of individualized attention, and warm, easy-going manner, Tom has been one of the most popular instructors at Harrisville Designs for over thirty years.