A Web is a World: Web-Making Workshop

A web lives. It comes into being through processes of growth and is held together with frictions that send sympathetic vibrations throughout the whole web whenever it is touched. A web is a world, and much like our world it is full of entanglements, conflicts, and stories. To weave a web thus is to make a world, and live a life/lives in it.

Web-making is Gandalf’s favorite event in the rope world. It has taught them much about life, respect, surrender, and meaning. In this workshop, Gandalf will share an easy web-making process that they had developed through their journey in weaving. We will discuss how to add depth and weight to a web and how to imbue it with emotion and energy. Participants are free to deviate and create their own web-weaving processes.

Format: hands-on workshop

Minimum knowledge level: We will only use basic frictions (counter-tension, munter-hitch). It is helpful to know them but having no experience is also ok.

Maximum amount of participants: 25, passive watching is welcome

What to bring: Yarn / thin hemp ropes / or anything you would like to use for web weaving. The facilitator will demonstrate with 1-2mm diameter yarn or hemp rope. Bring something to weave on, preferably something hollow, such as a wood frame for a painting or hula-hoops, be creative. QUEEROPE will have 15 frames of 30cm available and also have some yarn you can use.

Constellations: all constellations welcome

Accessibility: we will be sitting on the floor but other ways to sit more comfortably can be arranged