Wrangling 5 Shafts From A 4-shaft Loom
Ever wonder about those 5-shaft drafts you see from time to time? Here's an interesting idea about how they were woven.
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Ever wonder about those 5-shaft drafts you see from time to time? Here's an interesting idea about how they were woven.
I've wanted to weave with raffia for a long time and the new kind of raffia that is on the market now seems perfect for placemats.
It's hard to please everyone all the time, but I think you will agree with me that this is a beautiful collection of 4-shaft handwoven scarves.
Ever wonder about the weird fractions in Handwoven? Based on the mail we get, you are not alone.
You might be familiar with the eye roll I get on the rare occasions when I ask someone to help me wind a warp on my loom.
I usually tie up the treadles the way the tie-up in the article shows them. This often seems to mean that the tabby treadles are tied up on the left side and therefore I need to use my left foot for both of them.
I would like to use up this yarn by weaving baby blankets for a local Project Linus chapter.
When I become editor of Handwoven I had no idea that Handwoven’s Ruby Anniversary was coming and that my idea of a dream issue would mesh so perfectly with it.
On July 14, France celebrates Bastille Day (or as they call it “Quatorze Juillet”), the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 that marked a turning point in the French Revolution—well, the first of their revolutions, anyway.
As Lynn Tedder writes in this article, originally published in the November/December 2018 issue of Handwoven, huck is a structure for all seasons.
Each Loom Theory is dedicated to a specific type of loom, either 4-shaft, rigid-heddle or 8-shaft loom.
This weekend, I threaded 430 ends of 20/2 cotton on my loom in 4 shades of gray from Lunatic Fringe’s Tubular Spectrum. It’s an easy threading of plain weave with some crammed ends of 10/2 cotton to create ribs in the fabric.