Double Weave Book; A Woven Field Guide of Jaipur with Amy Revier *Two Week Course*
January 18th - February 1st, 2026
In this two-week immersive workshop, each participant will create their own double weave book— a handwoven textile object that serves both as a personal field guide and a vessel for memory. This workshop will combine weaving, walking, collecting, and observing.
The woven book becomes both an object and a metaphor—a textile memory palace that records not only visual impressions but also a felt sense of place. It invites participants to engage with Jaipur through the lens of material, rhythm, and attention, and to respond with their hands, eyes, and intuition. This project holds its essence in the spiritual and deeply human resonance of weaving, and its power to contain, carry, and transform. It also highlights how woven textiles can take the form of a more sculptural object, coexisting with other materialities.
Week One, Building the Library January 18th - 24th, 2026
Amy will introduce the ingenious and meditative technique of double weave, a structure that allows for the creation of a two-layered textile with integrated pockets. Discovering hand spun, hand-dyed threads in fibres such as sustainably grown Rajasthani cotton, Desi wool, lotus silk and hemp that will craft deeply personal, expressive pieces of cloth. Under the guidance of local artisans, we will dye our own yarns that can be later used in our weavings.
This week will focus on an in depth discovery of the city, collecting and creating a library of objects to be held in our books.Incorporating several local artisan craft techniques including light metalwork, embroidery, beadwork, paper making, Jaipur Blue Pottery and more, we will experience a variety of workshops behind closed doors. Photographs from our daily walking/mapping practices, small treasures and found objects, drawings, notes, and observations, fragments of inspiration collected along the way will add to the compendium.
Week Two, Double Weave Book January 26th - February 1st, 2026
Working with either a 4 harness loom, or a backstrap loom, we will start weaving, covering the entire process from warping the loom to finished artwork. The process is welcoming and accessible to new weavers and allows for creative exploration for more experienced weavers. The goal is not technical perfection, but poetic resonance. Week two will integrate the components collected in week one—such as repurposed materials and hand dyed threads, creating your double weave book around your unique collection of field notes. The course allows space for both structured learning and open-ended exploration. Amy will be supported by experienced weavers from the region, creating space for a truly unique dialogue and insight into local weaving stories and practices.
Amy will include lectures on her work with various inspiring references to contemporary art and craft – from video performance, sculpture, and 20th century artists making their own way by blending genres, materials, design and art and building together to create larger worlds and ask larger questions.
**The course has been designed to exist as 2 stand alone workshops, however the synergy of the 2 weeks combined it part of what makes the course so special. If you can only make one of the weeks or would like to take another workshop, this course will be 2250 euros for one week. Please contact us via email info@wonderfulworkshopsjaipur.org for bookings.
January 18th - February 1st, 2026
In this two-week immersive workshop, each participant will create their own double weave book— a handwoven textile object that serves both as a personal field guide and a vessel for memory. This workshop will combine weaving, walking, collecting, and observing.
The woven book becomes both an object and a metaphor—a textile memory palace that records not only visual impressions but also a felt sense of place. It invites participants to engage with Jaipur through the lens of material, rhythm, and attention, and to respond with their hands, eyes, and intuition. This project holds its essence in the spiritual and deeply human resonance of weaving, and its power to contain, carry, and transform. It also highlights how woven textiles can take the form of a more sculptural object, coexisting with other materialities.
Week One, Building the Library January 18th - 24th, 2026
Amy will introduce the ingenious and meditative technique of double weave, a structure that allows for the creation of a two-layered textile with integrated pockets. Discovering hand spun, hand-dyed threads in fibres such as sustainably grown Rajasthani cotton, Desi wool, lotus silk and hemp that will craft deeply personal, expressive pieces of cloth. Under the guidance of local artisans, we will dye our own yarns that can be later used in our weavings.
This week will focus on an in depth discovery of the city, collecting and creating a library of objects to be held in our books.Incorporating several local artisan craft techniques including light metalwork, embroidery, beadwork, paper making, Jaipur Blue Pottery and more, we will experience a variety of workshops behind closed doors. Photographs from our daily walking/mapping practices, small treasures and found objects, drawings, notes, and observations, fragments of inspiration collected along the way will add to the compendium.
Week Two, Double Weave Book January 26th - February 1st, 2026
Working with either a 4 harness loom, or a backstrap loom, we will start weaving, covering the entire process from warping the loom to finished artwork. The process is welcoming and accessible to new weavers and allows for creative exploration for more experienced weavers. The goal is not technical perfection, but poetic resonance. Week two will integrate the components collected in week one—such as repurposed materials and hand dyed threads, creating your double weave book around your unique collection of field notes. The course allows space for both structured learning and open-ended exploration. Amy will be supported by experienced weavers from the region, creating space for a truly unique dialogue and insight into local weaving stories and practices.
Amy will include lectures on her work with various inspiring references to contemporary art and craft – from video performance, sculpture, and 20th century artists making their own way by blending genres, materials, design and art and building together to create larger worlds and ask larger questions.
**The course has been designed to exist as 2 stand alone workshops, however the synergy of the 2 weeks combined it part of what makes the course so special. If you can only make one of the weeks or would like to take another workshop, this course will be 2250 euros for one week. Please contact us via email info@wonderfulworkshopsjaipur.org for bookings.
January 18th - February 1st, 2026
In this two-week immersive workshop, each participant will create their own double weave book— a handwoven textile object that serves both as a personal field guide and a vessel for memory. This workshop will combine weaving, walking, collecting, and observing.
The woven book becomes both an object and a metaphor—a textile memory palace that records not only visual impressions but also a felt sense of place. It invites participants to engage with Jaipur through the lens of material, rhythm, and attention, and to respond with their hands, eyes, and intuition. This project holds its essence in the spiritual and deeply human resonance of weaving, and its power to contain, carry, and transform. It also highlights how woven textiles can take the form of a more sculptural object, coexisting with other materialities.
Week One, Building the Library January 18th - 24th, 2026
Amy will introduce the ingenious and meditative technique of double weave, a structure that allows for the creation of a two-layered textile with integrated pockets. Discovering hand spun, hand-dyed threads in fibres such as sustainably grown Rajasthani cotton, Desi wool, lotus silk and hemp that will craft deeply personal, expressive pieces of cloth. Under the guidance of local artisans, we will dye our own yarns that can be later used in our weavings.
This week will focus on an in depth discovery of the city, collecting and creating a library of objects to be held in our books.Incorporating several local artisan craft techniques including light metalwork, embroidery, beadwork, paper making, Jaipur Blue Pottery and more, we will experience a variety of workshops behind closed doors. Photographs from our daily walking/mapping practices, small treasures and found objects, drawings, notes, and observations, fragments of inspiration collected along the way will add to the compendium.
Week Two, Double Weave Book January 26th - February 1st, 2026
Working with either a 4 harness loom, or a backstrap loom, we will start weaving, covering the entire process from warping the loom to finished artwork. The process is welcoming and accessible to new weavers and allows for creative exploration for more experienced weavers. The goal is not technical perfection, but poetic resonance. Week two will integrate the components collected in week one—such as repurposed materials and hand dyed threads, creating your double weave book around your unique collection of field notes. The course allows space for both structured learning and open-ended exploration. Amy will be supported by experienced weavers from the region, creating space for a truly unique dialogue and insight into local weaving stories and practices.
Amy will include lectures on her work with various inspiring references to contemporary art and craft – from video performance, sculpture, and 20th century artists making their own way by blending genres, materials, design and art and building together to create larger worlds and ask larger questions.
**The course has been designed to exist as 2 stand alone workshops, however the synergy of the 2 weeks combined it part of what makes the course so special. If you can only make one of the weeks or would like to take another workshop, this course will be 2250 euros for one week. Please contact us via email info@wonderfulworkshopsjaipur.org for bookings.
Amy Revier grew up in Austin, Texas and received a BFA in Fine Art and Art History from The Algur H. Meadows School of the Arts. Whilst studying, she was awarded a grant to travel to Oaxaca to study backstrap weaving, where she honed her interest in the practice and received a grant for a floor loom. In 2009, Revier travelled to Iceland under The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program where she developed sculpture and textiles in relation to her time living there. In 2013 Revier produced her first collection of garments from her own textiles with support from Blue Mountain School, who also presented her work for Frieze Week in 2014 and 2019.Revier’s ongoing body of work entitled The Silent Travelleris a pairing of handwoven traveller’s clothes and traveller’s memoirs. The linen suit sets are soft uniforms, intended for sleep, play, working or exploring in, for both mental or physical travel.Revier is interested in the relationship between text, travel and textile and the translation of the articulated into feeling and movement, creating crossovers in checks, stripes, and single plains of colour to explore how we come to know things through the hand and the act of making. She is the Rolland Rome prize winner 2025 and is currently living and working at the American Academy of Rome.