Welcome to the Betty Briand ARTissage website
Betty Briand ARTissage
Would you like to learn the art of handweaving or perfect your skills in different weaving techniques?
Regular classes, workshops, professional training, or online courses—there’s something for everyone!
I will guide you as you learn to create with confidence.
Warping, winding, threading, sleying the reed, weaving … a little technique to create with complete freedom
Learn
weaving workshop-school
be trained to create
Bright and spacious, a beautiful resource workshop: around fifty foldable and portable looms, shelves full of colorful threads, drawers overflowing with samples of various structures, freely accessible technical books and magazines, herbal teas in a variety of scents…
Between the blackboard and the loom, I hope you’ll feel as comfortable here as I do!
learn weaving / understand the structure of a fabric / individual project
Training & workshopProfessionnal training
the training organization “Va Savoir”
obtain professional funding
A Qualiopi-certified national collective of textile trainers (felting, spinning, vegetable dyeing, knitting, and weaving) that enables trainees to receive funding from an Opco (Fafcea, Vivea, Afdas, Agefice, etc.).
The Roya Valley, Auvergne, Drôme, Dordogne, and Touraine welcome you with open arms!
five professional craftswomen / from all over France / collective
Train in FranceOnline training
video lessons
learn at your own pace
By following these 7 hours of video lessons, you will learn how to prepare your loom, read a weaving diagram, calculate the number of warp and weft threads, and of course, weave. You will learn how to design and create a fabric that is perfectly suited to your tastes and needs by discovering different techniques.
These video lessons, in french, which are accessible for life and can be viewed unlimited times, also give you access to course documents in PDF format.
watch and do simultaneously / at home / unlimited
Have a lookPublication
the learning manual
mastering the technique to create freely
Published by Stackpole Books in the United States in 2023 and before by Eyrolles in France in 2021, ‘The Art of Weaving” has become the technical reference work on weaving.
“This is the clearest, most comprehensive and concise explanation of plain, twill and satin weaves ever written. For Betty Briand, weaving is a pleasure, an exploration, an excitement, an emotion!” – Kathy Fitzgerald, Handwoven, Autumn 2024.
You’ll read it almost like a novel!
clear, illustrated manual / for weavers who love the process
Discover the book