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 in natural dyes 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 table 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 in natural dyes 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 table 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 in natural dyes 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 table 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 is an artist living and working between Rome, London, and Texas. Her work is multidisciplinary with a focus on sculpture and handwoven textiles. Her work is often process-led and material-driven, forming works that emphasize the evidence of the hand and reference ancient ways of making.
In 2013 Amy showed her first collection of handwoven coats in London at Dover Street Market, the Comme Des Garcons experimental flagship space. Now in her 12th year of making sculptural/wearable coats, she has continued to expand her practice and develop one-off bodies of work that draw from a wide range of references across textile history and literature. Before moving to London, Revier was based in Reykjavik, Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar from 2009-2010, where she developed sculpture and taught herself how to weave. In 2015 Revier launched her ongoing side project, ‘The Silent Traveller’ – editioned bespoke suit sets paired with a travel memoir. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Frieze, Wallpaper, The New York Times, Financial Times and various other international publications. In addition to her ongoing collection of one-of-a-kind coats, Amy’s sculptural works have been in exhibitions including London’s Hauser & Wirth gallery, Roche Court Sculpture Park in Somerset, UK, and installations during Frieze Week at Blue Mountain School, London. She is currently the Rolland Rome Prize winner in art and design for 2024-2025 at the American Academy in Rome and will be the forthcoming artist in residence at Archivio Lante in Italy from July - October 2025.