ATA Workshops
ATA organizes annual tapestry weaving workshops at various locations around the country. In addition to our regular workshops, ATA also holds workshops in conjunction with the Handweaver’s Guild of America’s biennial conference, Convergence. Read more about it on our Members’ Retreat page here.
2025 Workshop with Tommye McClure Scanlin
Marking Time (and Other Things) in Tapestry
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN| Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2025
Registration Opens March 15, 2025, for Curator’s and Collector’s Circle Level Members
and March 22, 2025 for all others.
Do you wonder about marking time with your tapestry weaving? Of course, you do it each and every time you pass the weft through the warp. But what about creating a specific code to represent your days? Tommye Scanlin has been doing this with her tapestry diaries for over fifteen years. In addition to creating codes to represent time and its passing, how about creating woven codes for other things?
Join Tommye at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts (organized by ATA) to discuss and experiment with different approaches to marking time and
other things in tapestry.
Tommye McClure Scanlin has been weaving tapestry since 1988. She is the author of The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver (2020); Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: Planning and Weaving with Confidence (2021); and Marking Time with Fabric and Thread: Calendars, Diaries, and Journals (2024).
Registration fees for the workshop will be paid directly to ATA and students will register for housing options with Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. The cost of the workshop and associated fees will be made available by January 1, 2025.
