Workshop Opportunity
Kushutara (Bhutaneses weaving)
Presented by Wendy Garrity
Hosted by the Loom and Shuttle Guild of San Francisco
April 4 and 5, 2019, 9:30- 4:30 with an hour lunch break
St. Johns United Church-Christ
Basement
501 Laguna Honda Blvd.
San Francisco
In this workshop, Wendy Garrity will introduce students to sapma and thrima, the supplementary weft techniques used to create kushutara, the sumptuous single-faced brocade used for women’s festival dresses in Bhutan. Participants will explore traditional Bhutanese motifs and begin to combine the 5 basic stitches to weave these motifs and to experiment with their own designs.
Wendy learned from and wove alongside master weavers during a year living in Bhutan, and shares
techniques not documented in the few books published on Bhutanese textiles. She has adapted the
techniques executed on the Bhutanese backstrap loom to the shaft loom in order to share them with
western weavers.
Participants will have the opportunity to examine samples of Bhutanese kushutara cloth and learn to
identify how different patterns are created, to enable them to continue their own explorations after the workshop.
Although kushutara is woven in Bhutan with a pickup stick and fine silk yarns, participants will use more substantial yarn that can be manipulated with the fingers, increasing the ground covered during this workshop.
In this link you’ll see some beautiful examples of Bhutanese textiles:
https://www.denisekovnat.com/2017/07/bhutanese-textiles-with-wendy-garrity.html
Required Level of Experience: Adventurous beginners and beyond. Confidence with plain weave and operating your shaft loom are essential.
Maximum Class Size: 12
Equipment Needed by Students:
* detailed supply list is included with the warping instructions and will be emailed about 1 month
before the workshop
• Loom dressed according to instructions received prior to the workshop. Looms are threaded on a simple straight draw, rigid heddle looms can also be used. 
• 1 stick shuttle
• Weft yarn (recommendations included in supply list)
• Pattern yarns from stash (recommendations included in supply list)
Cost: $200 due at registration, payable to Loom and Shuttle Guild
plus $30 materials fee to Wendy Garrity during the workshop
Contact: Lucinda Scheer
sunsetsf@hotmail.com