
Call for Submissions: Handwoven March/April 2024—Flights of Fancy
Our spring issue will be all about the birds and the bees (PG only!) ... or depending on how you interpret it, anything else that flies, including time and your imagination!
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Our spring issue will be all about the birds and the bees (PG only!) ... or depending on how you interpret it, anything else that flies, including time and your imagination!

Let’s start 2024 by looking at bast fibers. There are more than you might imagine!

Where does the rest of your life intersect with weaving?

Let’s see what we can do with color, structure, and yarn choice to bring out some of the color effects found in nature.

Here’s your chance to play with color-and-weave.

I’m hard pressed not to see weaving patterns everywhere, and I don’t think I’m alone.

Season 4, Episode 5: From her first encounter with doubleweave, Jennifer Moore was enchanted. The structure has not only formed her art practice and teaching repertoire but also led her to the heights of the Andes and the history of pre-Columbian art.

With so many choices, choosing wool for an issue theme because it is less harmful to the environment than some other fibers seems like the way to go.

We have developed themes for the five issues of Handwoven 2023 and four issues of Easy Weaving with Little Looms 2023. Here they are.

“As if” and “what if” have special meanings for weavers and often involve pushing the envelope in interesting ways.

If you have thought about it but never actually done it, now might be the time to try sewing with your handwoven cloth.

Twills can be simple or complex, but they are all related, and they are all interesting for different reasons.