
Ask Madelyn: Do I Need to Use a Temple?
In essence, you are asking whether weavers really need to use a temple.
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In essence, you are asking whether weavers really need to use a temple.

Expert weaver Pattie Graver, author of Next Steps in Weaving: What You Never Knew You Needed to Know, shares her warping tips for more successful weaving projects in this excerpt straight from her best selling book.

The closer denting of the edge threads is probably suggested in order to add a bit of strength to the selvedges.

Wouldn't you love to have a handwoven picnic blanket? Weave one!

Get out your rigid-heddle loom if you need a warm scarf in a hurry.

As it turns out, weaving with a baby was not in the cards since life had very different plans for me.


If you ask me how I got started weaving, I have two answers: a simple one based on how I “officially” started, and one that covers the deeper question of why I started.

Whether you’re hosting Thanksgiving or going to visit loved ones here’s a list of the top five weaving projects for Thanksgiving.

When Handwoven November/December 2010, dedicated to “slow cloth,” came out, Deborah told me her style of weaving might best be called “glacial weaving

The older I get, the more I choose to weave with thin fibers, such as fine cotton, linen, and silk because the results are more interesting for me. I also love to combine weave structures because that also produces interesting results.

Learn how to best determine sett for your doubleweave projects