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2016: May 3—6
a tapestry weaving workshop
and teaching philosophy
Artist and teacher Margaret Sunday is intrigued by matrixes. A basic matrix of weaving is the repeating framework of warp and weft; yet the spontaneous effluence of hairlines we find in gemstones is also called the matrix, or mother—a tissue of originating substance captured in the stone’s formation. Each type of matrix has a defining beauty, wholeness and mystery; for Sunday, their convergence compels discovery. The interplay of matrixes, in their physical, visual and metaphorical dimensions, forms the basis of her teaching and the innovative tapestries she creates.
Workshop participants will explore tapestry weaving through familiar techniques of weaving combined with improvisational “needle-play” on small, frame, rigid heddle and other simple looms. Exercises for developing organic matrixes within a weaving structure will be presented, and an adventurous approach of trial and error will be nurtured. Subject matter, palette, style and other considerations of individual preference are open, however, the experience of this workshop will be most gratifying for those who come expecting to depart from their original paths, invent, play and be surprised by their tapestries as they evolve. Participants will be asked to bring their own looms, hand tools, weaving yarns and threads (warp and weft), and other supplies.
photo credits: detail, “penelope dissembling in frackutopia” by John Blake; “Hands” by Sharon Niederman
margaret sunday tapestry 
Hi, will you be posting images from your workshop on Facebook? It would be great to follow this and see what develops! Please let me know if you have a facebook or Twitter page aI can follow, thanks,
Daisy
Hi Daisy,
Thank you for your interest. I don’t have Facebook and Twitter currently–because there is not enough of me to go around! We were not able to hold this year’s workshop in Maine, because the workshop filled too late for us to reserve our facility. Next year I will be posting workshop photos here on this site.
Best regards,
Margaret
Thanks for getting back Margaret, and sorry to hear the workshop didn’t go ahead. I wanted to say how much I love your work and I find your particular way of weaving engaging. It makes me think of Sylvia Heyden, not in style necessarily, but in the way that weaving becomes a language all of its own… its own medium in its own right. Is this the only online archive of your work? Thanks, and I’ll keep my eye on the site for next year,
Daisy
“Weaving becomes a language all of its own”…this describes, for me, where craft becomes art. I appreciate your insights. As far as I know, this is the place to see a good number of my weavings together; the Selfies on Slow blogsite includes of page on woven self-portraits, which includes several images of earlier painted and drawn self-portraits. I think images of my artist’s books might be scattered around the web, but I’m not aware of a cohesive presentation. Next year we are planning to hold this workshop in May. More to come on that soon.
Best,
Margaret