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Frame Loom Weaving Workshop is back
with Ruthellyn
Frame Loom Weaving Workshop with Ruthellyn
Saturday, June 20, 2026
10:30 AM to 2 PM (includes a half hour lunch break in the courtyard with live music)
Member Price $58, Non Members $65
All materials included
No experience necessary
Frame Loom Weaving is a traditional and approachable fiber art that welcomes both beginners and experienced makers into a relaxed, creative process. In this technique, the loom serves as a temporary structure. Vertical warp threads create the foundation, while the weft is woven through to build color, texture, and design. Once complete, the finished weaving is removed from the loom and transformed into a finished piece.
In this three-hour workshop, participants will work with three colors and learn tabby weave as the primary technique, along with soumak and interlocking methods to create stripes and a central circular motif. Each weaving kit includes all materials needed, including a frame loom, printed instructions and techniques, yarn, needles, and beads.
With step by step guidance throughout the workshop, each participant will create a unique woven wall hanging that reflects their own pace and style. By the end of class, the weaving will be removed from the loom and attached to a piece of driftwood, with optional beads, for display.
Please bring a snack or a sack lunch.
Artist Biography
Ruthellyn Whittington was raised in Southern California in a family that valued creativity and education. From an early age, she found joy in writing and illustrating stories, a passion that led her to study art and English. She explored a wide range of media including ceramics, sculpture, calligraphy, mosaics, printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, batik, and weaving, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in textiles. She later earned teaching credentials in art and English.
Since retiring in 2018, Ruthellyn has returned fully to her own artistic practice. As a textile artist, she creates woven works inspired by photographs, dreams, and imagined narratives. Her work has been exhibited at venues including PVAA Gallery SOHO, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Huntington Beach Art Center, Cambria Center for the Arts, Studios on the Park in Paso Robles, and numerous galleries and arts festivals throughout California.