Exercise 4 Moorman Inlay Technique 1

Brittany from The Weaving Workshop shows how to weave lesson 4 from the book by Theo Moorman, "Weaving as an Art Form".
Theo Moorman (1907-1990) was a British weaver who studied art in the UK in the 1920s and traveled and taught extensively in the United States during the 1970s. She shows us how far she had advanced from the concept of weaving as purely utilitarian cloth.
Her book, Weaving as an Art Form: A Personal Statement, was published in 1975 and says on its back cover, “Nowadays weaving and the allied processes of manipulating thread and fiber are generally accepted as an art form, but this has only recently been so. The weaving class Theo Moorman attended as an art student in the 1920s taught three subjects: yardage weaving for dress and furnishing fabrics, rug weaving, and tapestry weaving. Wall hangings had not been “invented” and weaving was strictly flat and two-dimensional. The emergence of the artist-designer-weaver, emphatically one person, is a major breakthrough in the history of the craft of weaving. Weavers have joined the ranks of artists of all time; they are no longer backwater but in the mainstream.”
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