Playing in the (Bateman) Park Scarf
Deborah Heyman chose to explore in her gorgeous Playing in the (Bateman) Park Scarf for the March/April 2019 issue of Handwoven.
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Deborah Heyman chose to explore in her gorgeous Playing in the (Bateman) Park Scarf for the March/April 2019 issue of Handwoven.
Weaving the original Ancient Rose overshot scarf was my way of reclaiming who I was as a person and a weaver.
For her Diamonds and Bars Twill Rug in the March/April 2019 issue of Handwoven, Patricia Crane took a saddle blanket designed and woven by Clotilde Barrett and turned it into a rug that can be enjoyed by anyone and everyone.
Rabbit Goody has spent her career weaving historically accurate textiles. Here are her musings on the history of American handweaving.
If I want to weave a structure such as overshot, summer and winter, or a lace weave double wide for a tablecloth, what problems can I expect? I have just given away my large floor loom and will be using a 36” table loom for this.
When it comes time to tie on the warp threads at the front, I consistently get a diagonal line of threads, with the threads on one side being shorter than the other.
Looking for WIFs, drafts, free projects, tutorials, or other goodies mentioned in Handwoven? You can find them all right here.
It isn’t that easy to have looms in two places unless you are willing to create two weaving studios.
Happy New Year, fellow weavers! I don’t know about you, but I like to take the first week of any new year to think about what I’d like to accomplish in the coming months.
Just about anyone is capable of winding a warp and weaving a scarf on a rigid-heddle loom, but weaving a wonderful scarf takes thought, planning, and sometimes a fair amount of patience. This is why I love Loom Theory: Rigid-Heddle Scarf Collection.
In 2018, Handwoven associate editor Christina Garton and I worked together to complete five issues of the magazine. We didn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, do it alone. We did it with the help of a whole bunch of great people.
We were pretty proud to debut Jennifer Moore’s Doubleweave on a 4-Shaft Loom last year. Now we’re even prouder to launch her follow-up, Block Doubleweave on 8 Shafts.