|  Teaching activities
at the Foundation cover both the study of ancient techniques and the
design of the latest ones. The intensive courses are aimed at three
groups of participants::
- At those with an historical, artistic or conservationist
interest in textiles such as teachers, art historians, restorers
or official archivists.
- At those working involved in industrial cloth
production either as technicians or designers.
- At those wishing to learn hand-weaving , from
the simplest to the most complex techniques.
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calendar
 All courses requiring a minimum of six students.
CAD courses max. of eight.
- The Foundation organises courses and seminars
of specialised subjects or on detailed aspects of techniques at
the request of schools, institutions or groups.
- It is also available for individual stages aimed
at completing specialised Study Center projects.
- The Foundation has some accommodation available to participants.
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Courses and Calendar
RENAISSANCE
AND BAROQUE ITALIAN SILK DAMASKS (16TH - 18TH C.)
4 day, 24 hour course
October 6 - 9, 2008
Instructor: Anna Maria Colombo
Technical constructuion of damask: weaves, pointpaper design,
loom and harness-tie. Analysis of decorative motifs and their cronological-stylistic
succession. Manufacturies. Uses: private, liturgical, military. Examples
from paintings. Examples from archives.
Two projects for the documentation of liturgical damasks within the
areas of Novara and Bologna. Examples from Italian collections and
museums. Examples from international collections.
RECOGNITION
OF
EMBROIDERY STITCHES AND TECHNIQUES
2 day, 16 hour course
December 5 - 6, 2008
Instructor: Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols
HISTORICAL DYEING
TECHNIQUES
2 day, 14 hour seminar
October 17- 18, 2008
Instructor: Stefano Panconesi
LINEN TASSELS FROM THE 17TH
CENTURY
2 day, 16 hour course
November 21 - 22, 2008
Instructor: Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols
The art of knotting and tassel making for 17th century linen tassels
worn mostly by men.
Power-point presentation on history of tassels such as: tapestry,
tablecloth, collar and more. Analysis, annotation and tassel construction.
Students learn all necessary knots, their applications and variations,
using very simple tools and different quality yarns and threads;
creation of variety of base shapes such as the heads and cords; creation
cords and gimps; demonstration of assembly of all elements; individual
work.
RECOGNITION, STUDY AND CATALOGUING
OF HAND-MADE AND MACHINE-MADE LACE
Two 3-day sessions, 21 hours each
Instructor: Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols
I - Bobbin lace
Spring 2009
Bobbin lace: with braids of continuous thread; with continuous or
additional tapes; à pièces rapportées; with different
grounds; with continuous threads.
II - Needlepoint lace,
laces of varied techniques, machine-made lace
November 27 - 29, 2008
Needle lace: various techniques. Lace making from picage to joining.
Mixed laces: needle and bobbin. Hosiery frame/loom, for horizontal
and vertical knits; Raschel, Bobbinet, Cornely, Bonnaz, Leaver, Barmen,
hand-operated embroidery machine, Schiffli, Multihead; perforated,
cut and chemical lace; lace fabrics, frame for Nottingham curtain
lace. Other techniques: filet, macramé, tatting, crotchet etc.
DESIGN
OF JACQUARD CLOTH
7 week, 250 hours course
May 26 - July11, 2008
Instructors: Eva Basile, Julie Holyoke
COMPUTER TEXTILE DESIGN
for Jacquard fabrics
1 week, 35 hour course
October 20 - 24, 2008
Instructors: Julie Holyoke, Eva Basile
SILK DAMASK:
ONE WARP, INFINITE SOLUTIONS
2 week, 70 hour course
July 14 - 25, 2008
Instructors: Julie Holyoke, Eva Basile
Course participants design a project to be woven in damask at prestigious
Italian silk mill. Study and analysis of historical and contemporary
damasks, elaboration of projects in computer lab, use the Foundation's
library and archives for research and inspiration. Students receive
finished sample of one meter; optional purchase of additional meterage
at production cost.
The course is open to designers, textile students and instructors
with basic weaving knowledge. Experience with graphic software is
required.
JACQUARD
FLORAL WORKSHOP
1 week, 40 hour workshop
September 29 - October 3, 2008
instructor: Jennifer Robertson
Investigate the poetry of Flora in Jacquard textile design. Students
elaborate images of their favorite Flora with textile design software.
Using a computer piloted Jacquard loom, individual projects are woven
in silk using damask, lancé and brocade techniques. Each student
will use a computer with textile software and will weave by hand his
or her own project, aided by the Anglo-Australian designer Jennifer
Robertson.
FIGURED PANELS
WOVEN ON COMPUTER OPERATED LOOM
1 week, 35 hour seminar
October 27 - 31, 2008
Instructors: Julie Holyoke, Eva Basile
Elaboration of designs using textile CAD. Production of woven textile
sampler, with a variety of weft materials. Experimention of woven
effects. Further elaboration and definition of final project. Weaving
of panels.
Materials provided by the Lisio Foundation. Students may bring additional
yarns for use as weft.
KENTE
WEAVING ON THE AFRICAN LOOM OF THE EWE
5 day, 35 hour course
June 16 - 20, 2008
Instructor: Luciano Ghersi
CREATIVITY AND THE TRADITIONAL
VERTICAL LOOM
5 day, 35 hour course
November 10 - 14, 2008
Instructor: Luciano Ghersi
'Art is not what we think it is; it is what occurrs in the
making, an acceptance of the accidents of improvisation. Creative
weaving must therefore be inspired by the direct and loving exploration
of the loom's frame, without recourse to an established itinerary
or plan.' During the course, vertical rug looms will be set up and
their creative
potential used, with the guidance of the instructor, to explore 'organized
textile coincidences' that grow out of the direct pratice of weaving,
without relying on preliminary drafts.
WEAVING
WITHOUT A LOOM
2 day, 16 hour course
December 2008
Instructor: Angela Giordano
WOVEN SHIBORI
3 day course (20 hrs)
10-12 April 2008
Teacher: Eva Basile
Programme
During the course a recently developed technique will be taught, which
combines hand weaving and resist dying. In woven Shibori, three-dimensional
variegated effects, typical of the Japanese shibori, derive
directly from the weaves. The course is directed to artists, stylists
and all those that want to learn this technique.
This course is of particular interest for those who already possess
a basic knowledge of hand-weaving and textile structures.Work will
be done on Jacquard looms or looms having 4-24 shafts.
The course will be held in Italian and/or in English.
FIGURED PANELS WOVEN ON COMPUTER
OPERATED LOOM
1 week, 35 hour course
October 20 - 24, 2008
Instructors: Julie Holyoke, Eva Basile
Technical characteristics of the loom, single comber set-up, weaving
one or more repeats. Elaboration of design using CAD. Production of
a woven textile sampler. Use of different weft thicknesses and materials.
Integration of the woven structures to be used for the artwork's application
to cloth. Testing of a few woven samples. Further elaboration and
definition of the final project. Weaving of the projects.
Final display of the work.
All materials will be provided by the Lisio Foundation, students can
bring their own threads for the wefts. They will study the special
woven effects, under the supervision of the instructors.
The course will be held in Italian and/or English.
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