Teacher name: Kirsten Ledbetter

Lesson title: Weaving

Grade level: First and Second Grade
Time frame: 1.5 hour class period- Saturday Art
Sequence Theme/Big Idea: Fact/Fiction
Lesson Narrative:
We will be creating weavings. There are different kinds of weavings that incorporate a wide
variety of mediums, especially today when people are incorporating all kinds of unconventional
materials into weavings and are pushing boundaries of the traditional craft. The weavings the
students will be creating are going to be a narrative and incorporate symbolism in some way that
is significant to the student. Students will view traditional methods of weaving that incorporate
reeds, to yarn and fabric to the more modern weavings that incorporate a wide-variety of nontraditional materials. We will view these weavings and discuss the importance of each type of
weaving.
Lesson Rationale: Student will learn about weaving. There are many different kinds of
weavings. Students will learn about weaving as it is a traditional art form that can be found
historically through many cultures. They will also be learning about fabric and fiber weaving,
which are the materials students will be using in this project. The traditional craft of weaving, in
its many forms, is still practiced today. Students will learn about the importance of crafts and the
importance of weaving and the products made from weaving. The craft was multi-beneficial to
the craftsman who made, utilized and sold woven products.
Objectives: Students will be able to describe the various weaving techniques they viewed in the
visual culture component and state how this exposure informed their final weaving design
decisions. Students will be able to talk about the craft of weaving and the people who do it as
well as identify examples of weaving in their everyday life/when they encounter it. Students will
be able to talk about the different sources they used for inspiration in their final weaving piece.
Students will be able to describe who they used the elements and/or principles of design in their
final works.
Standards
The students will:
1. Explore and describe how a selected art object was made.(1:2PE)
2. Identify and discuss what an artist does and find examples of works by artists in their
communities. (1:5PE)

3. Engage in art making to produce a work that combines music, movement or dramatic
play with visual art. (1:6PR)
4. Describe how elements and principles communicate meaning in works of art..(1:7RE)
5. Identify and describe cultural symbols, image and contexts of works of art. (2:5PE)

Materials:
Inexpensive frames (like cheap canvases, and rip off canvas, reinforce corners with staple gun)
- hammer nails into the back, top and bottom to create loom, thread string around nails to create
weaving matrix.
Get a variety of materials- ribbon, fabric, yarn, rick rack, sequin ribbon, unconventional
materials (but need to be flexible) to weave with.
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Nails
Lesson Vocabulary:
-Weaving- yarns, thread, and other materials worked together to make baskets, tapestries,
decorative wall hangings, etc.
-warm colors- red, orange and yellow on the color wheel. They sit opposite the cool colors.
-cool colors- blue, green and violet on the color wheel. They sit opposite the warm colors.
-design- how you plan for your final product to look; when youre sketching different ideas for
the final product, youre designing your final product
-dimension- in reference to three dimensional or two dimensional (3D or 2D), it tells a person if
you are actually able to touch the piece of art, that art comes into the viewers space instead of
just living flat in a picture or on a surface. Weavings have dimension in that they come out and
can have different textures and do not just live on a flat surface.
Historical/Multicultural Exemplars:
We will look at traditional textile weavings and basket weavings as well as more modern
interpretations of weaving. Image examples will also be hook and follow into video.
Question strategies for images: Sketching- brainstorming ideas for how want final weaving to
look- which fibers/materials are you drawn to ? colors? Why?
What do you want the colors and materials you choose- to symbolize? Why?
What do you see in the example images? What do you think influenced their choice of
materials? What are the materials supposed to symbolize?

Visual Culture Component (this is often used as the hook for the lesson):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIbu-dJuEh0 - The Art of Making a Tapestry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbUF0wgIfw - Weaving on Mt. Vernons 18th Century
Loom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa50Ag_bv6w - Making Willow Baskets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av8iBIaG6Nc -How to make a Newspaper Basket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26y73FuFuJ8 - modern weaving- making the loom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgM4niipQAM - additional shapes and details for
weaving
Procedure (Teacher modeling, Guided Practice, & Independent Practice):
Instructor will introduce lesson with historical and multicultural examples
Instructor will go over visual culture with students- introduce images of the various types of
textiles and talk about all of the different materials that can be incorporated into a finished art
piece. Will also talk about significance/ symbolism in historical pieces and modern pieces.
Instructor will show students exemplar and go over symbolism instructor chose to incorporate in
final piece- get students to start thinking about what they want to create, what they want to
symbolize in their own works.
Instructor will show students their materials and do a demonstration of how to do textile
weaving. Materials will be limited due to novel idea of weaving, only fluid materials will be
offered to students, to make for less frustration. (yarn, string, ribbon, fabric pieces, etc)
Students will each pick up the prefabricated looms that instructor created.
Students will write name on their looms.
Students will brainstorm on a piece of paper/in sketchbook, what they want to symbolize in their
artwork, what colors they want to choose, etc.
Students will gather materials as they see fit to express their ideas that they finalized in their
brainstorming.
Students will create their weavings.
Students will make sure their name is on their finished piece.
Student will place finished weavings in designated finished area for instructor to collect.
Assessment:
Rubric/Checklist :
-craftsmanship
-effort
-students can talk about the process they went through and what they learned in this new medium

-students can discuss how they interact with and identify weavings in everyday life
-students can talk about what influenced them to chose the colors and materials they chose and
what each choice of material represents.
-student can talk about how they incorporated new learned vocabulary about art and the design
principles.
Classroom set-up (optional): The room will be split into two areas- one area for where the
actual creation of work takes place and the other area for where students will be engaged with
prior lesson stimulus to inspire them (video clips, discussion, engaging with materials.) **
remove all rolling chairs from room and replace with the red stools.
Example images of activity/project: (to be made by me, then student examples.)

Resources:
http://jesus-sauvage.com/diy-tissage-petits-paysages-tisses-concours-vos-places-pour-le-saloncsf/
http://www.artbarblog.com/create/weaving-kids/