GREGG JOHNSON has been crazy about color and fabric his whole life. He started collecting paint chips in grade school, knit his first sweater in high school, did backstrap weaving in the peace corps after college. He took a sabbatical after many years in the corporate world and learned to weave properly on a floor loom, He never went back to the corporate world. Instead he apprenticed with and then wove for Randall Darwall for four years before opening his own custom weaving business. He spent time at Penland School of Crafts and fell in love with Western North Carolina so took the job of managing the weaving and dyeing studios at Penland for 8 years. After doing two more tours in the Peace Corps with a Moroccan women's textile coop, he returned to NC and worked in a yarn store for numerous years while knitting over 200 sweaters of his own design. Gregg has lived and worked all over the US and around the world, teaching color, weaving, natural dyeing and sweater design among many other textile related topics.
BEYOND THE COLOR WHEEL WITH FIBER Beginner to Advanced
Color surrounds us and beguiles us but can be intimidating. The color wheel is a good place to start organizing one’s thoughts about color, but it is often presented as aimed at painters and decorators. This class will build a color wheel using woven swatches and then go beyond the basic two and three hue color schemes. Whether you are a knitter, weaver, felter, quilter or needle artist, this class can help you in picking your colors. Learn how your choice of tints, tones and shades of hues changes the mood and impact of colors. We will cover how to build contrast, accent, depth and background in picking color combinations.
Prerequisite skills: None—just an interest in color and how to best use color in the fiber arts
Pre-class homework: None
Students bring: Note taking materials
Class duration: 3 hours
Instructor: Gregg Johnson
Date and time: Friday June 6, 2025 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Materials fee: None
Class fee: $20.00
5 to 25 students