About the Artist

Carol James has been playing with strings for a long time; she learned to embroider and to crochet before she entered kindergarten. Since the 1980s she has been exploring a wide, flat, braiding technique known in North America as fingerweaving. In the mid 1990s she was introduced to sprang. She is now a world-recognized teacher.  She has spent the past 20 years rediscovering textile forms that had been considered lost, resurrecting these ancient techniques and making them accessible to every one through her publications, books and workshops. 
Carol believes that textile creation is part of our human heritage.  Textile is an amalgamation of threads interconnecting with each other, just as humans work together in order to create the fabric of society. The method used to create fabric  in disparate communities around the world is often quite similar.  This is a common language of humans: the construction of fabric.  Woven together we are stronger. 

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Carol has published several articles.
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Carol has produced a number of instructional material in
videos format and in PDF .
Carol's store is where you can find her books Fingerweaving Untangled, Sprang Unsprung, Sprang Lace Patterns, as well as other unique items including custom made sashes.
Carol's fingerwoven sashes, belts and more
Carol's sprang woven sashes, vests, socks, bonnets, bags, leggings, and much more. Get inspired and learn what can you make with sprang.
Now available!!!

Join Carol and explore 12 different sprang structures over the next 12 months. Make 12 neckscarfs, each exploring a different sprang stitch structure.
Each month you will be invited to make a swatch using instructions for a different stitch. Receive support to use the measurements of the swatch to calculate what you need to make a neckscarf using that structure.
Monthly Zoom meetings will allow you to talk with Carol as well as with others interested in sprang from around the world.
The current list of stitches includes basic interlinking, 1-1 interlacing, 2-2 interlacing horizontal ribs, 2-2 interlacing vertical ribs, ropes, slits, doubles grid, transpositions, S&Z, twining on interlinking, and the intertwining stitch.... a survey of the variety of sprang.

The SprangLady Subscription-2021

CA$120.00

Welcome to the SprangLady Subscribers Information Site.


I look forward to sharing information with you, and accompanying you in your explorations of sprang. I will be available for a monthy sprang chat via Zoom, on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. There you can ask me questions, and receive on-line support. You will also be able to meet others interested in sprang.


You will find a number of documents here. I consider these the foundational instruction sheets that follow after you've mastered the basic interlinking stitch.


The exploration this year will be "advanced sampling".

The idea is to take you through the exercise of making samples. We will then use those samples to calculate number of stitches and length of warp required for a neckscarf. If a neckscarf isnot your thing, then you could use these samples to make a hat or pair of fingerless mittens .... sprang has lots of options.


For 2021, each month we will sample a different sprang stitch, and evaluate it in order to make a neckscarf (or hat or pair of fingerless mittens).

The current list of stitches (which may well shift) reads as follows:

January: interlacing, over one, under one

February: interlacing, over two, under two, horizontal ribs

March: basic interlinking

April: Over 3 interlinking

May: Ropes aka Full Twists

June: Transpositions - Twists

July: Doubles Grid

August: 2-2 Interlacing, Vertical ribs

September: Interrupted Twill

October: Patterns in S&Z

November: Twining

December: Intertwining


For those of you who missed signing up in January ... this is not a problem. Even if you sign up, in, say, June, you will begin with access to all the previous information, January through June's structures ... but you will have missed out on 5 months of Zoom meetings.


There will also be a monthly Zoom chat, arranged at different times of the day on a rotating cycle, to accommodate members in diverse time zones.


For a preview of the content visit:

https://www.spranglady.com/2021-preview.html
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A group of fingerweavers meets regularly in Carol's hometown, to share ideas and weave together.