Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

Distance Learning

Integrated Art Lesson Title: Weaving Your Way Through MATH

Description and Overall Focus: The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the about the

applied art of weaving, using color and shape and the

fundamentals of graphing.

Length of Lesson 45 minutes

Grade Range Elementary School

Objective(s) This lesson will teach students how to create the textural

weaving. Students will relate the subject to their prior

knowledge of graphing, as well as to adapt the graph to

facilitate the creation of a work of art.

Materials: PLEASE NOTE - Some

materials must be acquired prior

to this lesson (Teacher Supplies).

Note: ½” wide paper strips may be

used for grades 4 & 5.

Teacher Supplies:

1” wide Strips of colored paper (assorted colors), pre-cut

Graph template (see page 4) – 1 printed per student

Student Supplies:

Paper strips & graph

Pencil & crayons

Scissors

Stick glue (or liquid glue)

Introductory activity Students will begin by learning a brief history of weaving.

Students will then discuss how to use a graph. They will

correlate how using a graph to create a pattern can be

translated into a woven image.

Core activity Students will begin by choosing their paper colors. (Students

will plan their patterns on graph paper using corresponding

crayons.) They will continue by weaving the weft through the

warp. The paper textiles will be formed when warp is covered.

Closure activity Students will complete their creations making sure that the

pieces are secured properly together. Several students will

then share their work – to have a fun and constructive art

critique!

Assessment The Students will have learned the basics of weaving as a

craft, including vocabulary (warp, weft, etc.). Students will

have experienced how mathematical graphing is an

important element of creating [textile] patterned art.

Teacher follow-up idea The classroom teacher can use the websites below to present

more of the information surrounding textiles and weaving in

order to plan a new lesson.

Student follow-up idea Students can continue to create progressively more

sophisticated textiles by changing shape, increasing the size

and incorporating different fabrics or media (found objects).

Book/Web references www.buggyandbuddy.com

www.creativefibercraftbylaryna.blogspot.com

Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts, and Society by Marie-

Louise B. Nosch

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

www.artandculturecenter.org

Lesson prepared by Traci Petersen, MFA

WeavingWeavingWeavingWeaving is an applied art in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads

are interlaced to form a fabric or cloth. The threads which run lengthways are

called the warp and the threads which run across from side to side are the weft

or filling.

Cloth is usually woven on a loom, a device that

holds the warp threads in place while filling

threads are woven through them. Weft is an old

English word meaning "that which is woven.”

Ancient Greek weavers working on a loom.

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Weaving was very popular in the Nile

Valley of Egypt with fibers made from

plants. And later, sheep’s wool became

the yarn used in other cultures from as

far back as 4000 years ago! Weaving

has been important all over the world,

because if we didn’t have weaving, we

wouldn’t have many of the Items we

need every day. Can you think of any?

Suggestions:

Paper strips: 1” wide x 11” long. This is a time saver if pre-cut by teachers,

however, students may complete this task the day before the broadcast, too.

Template below for Graph Paper (print page 5 as many times as you need to for

the number of students in class).