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The Chicago Weaving School

THE CHICAGO WEAVING SCHOOL

Your Weekly Creative Retreat

The Chicago Weaving School provides expert instruction in the art of handweaving. Ongoing classes offered throughout the week give a creative home to beginning-through-advanced weavers.

It is owner Natalie Boyett’s mission to create an inspiring, inclusive, and encouraging space for all who enter.

Explore color, texture, structure and pattern through the medium of handwoven cloth and basketry.

Join us!

EXPLORE OUR HANDWEAVING

Classes & Workshops

Loom
Weaving

Classes for every level, beginners to advanced

Basket
Weaving

All students take a completed project home

Special
Classes

Special techniques and topics for textile lovers
Needs updated

GIVE THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE

An Experience They’ll Remember

A class at The Chicago Weaving School is an ideal gift for the curious and the creative

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See the recording of Textile and Text: Meaning-Making in the Languages of Woven Cloth

A weaver, a novelist, and a scholar walked into a webinar… …and we recorded it! Textile and Text: Meaning-Making in the Languages of Woven Cloth If you missed this fascinating conversation between textile-artist Cameron Taylor-Brown, award-winning novelist Adria Bernardi, [...]

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“We Have a Piece of Flint, and a Spark” by Natalie Boyett
“We Have a Piece of Flint, and a Spark” by Natalie Boyett

A poem is posted on the front door of The Chicago Weaving School. I placed it there the end of March, as we all shut down our storefronts and restaurants due to Covid-19.  Each window and door along my once-busy [...]

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