Paper Weaving
School Vision Statement
EVERYONE ENGAGES, EVERYONE REFLECTS,
EVERYONE LEARNS.
Month: January
Value: Care
Student Competency Framework: Collaboration/
teamwork; Communication
Sustainability Theme: Greening-Helping the Earth
Breath
WALT
• I can use materials creatively to make a product.
• I can use ideas from the work of artists and craft makers in my own work.
WILF
• I can weave strips of paper and fabric into my loom.
• I can alternate weaving the materials over and under the loom.
• I can explain that artists all over the world use weaving.
Joining Paper
How can I join my 2 strips of paper without using anything else?
Joining Materials
There are lots of ways to join materials together.
We are going to be using one of these methods to make a placemat.
We are going to learn how to weave materials together.
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Weaving around the World
People all over the world have been weaving for thousands of years.
We use weaving to make lots of things like chairs, baskets, clothes and rugs.
This photo is of somebody weaving on a loom in Japan some time between 1914 and 1918.
That’s about 100 years ago.
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Weaving around the World
This woman is weaving on a handloom in India.
She is weaving a Maheshwari pattern.
Maheshwari weaving uses pale colours and the finest quality cotton threads.
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Weaving around the World
Here, an artist in the USA
is creating a Diné weaving
at the Southwest Native
American Art Fair.
She is creating a Navajo rug
on a handloom.
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Weaving around the World
This woman is weaving a basket in Malaysia.
She is using recycled materials and weaving by hand.
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Weaving around the World
In the Maldives, a man weaves with natural materials to make furniture.
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Weaving around the World
In Peru, these women are making clothing using traditional weaving on handlooms.
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Weaving around the World
This artist in the USA ties scraps of thread together and uses them to create colourful weavings
by hand.
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Gunta Stölzl
Gunta Stölzl was a famous textiles artist.
She was born in Munich in Germany.
She volunteered as a nurse
during the First World War.
She went to the Bauhaus art school,
where she studied weaving.
She later became a master (teacher) at
the Bauhaus art school.
The picture shows her identity card from
the school, on which she has crossed out
‘student’ and replaced it with ‘master’ in
German.
Gunta Stölzl
Gunta Stölzl was passionate about weaving.
She experimented with new ways of working.
She encouraged other students.
She used a loom to weave by hand.
She made colourful exciting designs.
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Gunta Stölzl
Gunta Stölzl worked hard to make
weaving a more respected art form.
She combined traditional weaving with
simple design.
She introduced her students to new
materials to try.
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Paper Weaving
As well as fabric, paper can be used to create colourful weavings.
Here, paper weaving has been used to make a DVD cover.
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Paper Weaving
Paper weaving can be used to make lots of products.
Here, paper weaving has been used to make a placemat.
Photo courtesy of San José Library (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence – attribution
Let’s watch the video
Paper Weaving
Grab your two pieces of paper, your pencil,
scissors and ruler if you have one.
With your base piece of paper vertical, fold the top, down to
the bottom. This should meet the two short ends of the paper
together.
With the fold at the top, place your ruler
approximately an inch from the top of your paper.
Draw a line along the flat edge.
Next, with your paper in the same position (folded end at top)
you are going to draw lines approximately 1 inch from the top
to the bottom of the folded paper.
With the paper in the same position, you will cut along
each of the lines, till you get to the cross line and
stop.
You do not want to cut the base paper all the way
through as this is going to be the paper that holds
the weaving.
It should look like an accordion once you are
done.
Cut the paper along the lines creating paper
strips.
Starting at the bottom of the paper, weave a paper
strip over and under through your base paper.
The second strip will then weave the opposite of the
first, so under and then over.
Continue up the paper alternating until you get to the
top.
Challenge Yourself
Under the Sea Placemat
We are going to use weaving to make a
beautiful placemat.
We are going to make a placemat that
reminds us of the sea.
What sort of colours remind you of the
sea?
