Silk Weaving: Ultimate, FREE Guide on How to Weave with Silk and More!
Learn everything you need to know about silk weaving in this FREE eBook on how to weave with silk plus FREE weaving projects that use silk yarn!
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Learn everything you need to know about silk weaving in this FREE eBook on how to weave with silk plus FREE weaving projects that use silk yarn!
One of the earliest things I learned about weaving is that the practice, as a whole, has a truly wonderful vocabulary. We warp the loom, sley the reed, and mess about with heddles and treadles.
Tom Knisely has a new beginning weaving video. Learn how to weave on a loom with useful weaving techniques and a fun beginner weaving project!
In her Yarn Lab from the March/April 2017 issue of Handwoven, Jodi Ybarra takes cotton and linen yarns loved by mutlti-shaft loom weavers and makes them sing on her rigid-heddle loom.
Read Madelyn's advice on how to pick the right loom for weaving runners or other projects.
If you have an 8-shaft loom but a project that only calls for 4, what do you do? Can you just ignore the extra shafts, or must you change your threading?
I wound 2 ends of 8/2 unmercerized cotton and 1 end of 20/2 pearl cotton together. Now I am having all sorts of tension issues with the ends twisted together.
Why do selvedge threads break more on a floor loom than on a table loom?
My superpower is changing lengths of yarn into lengths of fabric.
Novelty yarns are very familiar to knitters, but not something you find in a hard-core weaving shop. Why is this? I think it’s because knitters have a much easier time working fancy yarns into their projects.
So you’ve warped the loom and you’ve started to weave. Uh-oh, something is not right. You check, and sure enough, one thread is on the wrong shaft.
Madelyn started weaving on a backstrap loom and didn't move to weaving on a mulitshaft loom until much later. Read about her journey.