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Sometimes handwovens bleed dye, especially if you used yarn dyed with red. Color bleeding can be prevented with good wet-finishing technique. Here's how!
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Sometimes handwovens bleed dye, especially if you used yarn dyed with red. Color bleeding can be prevented with good wet-finishing technique. Here's how!
Learn the difference between block weaves and unit weaves, and how they relate to designing with your favorite weave structures.
Once you understand how to weave and design with profile drafts, you'll be able to translate endless geometric patterns into block weaves. Get started now!
Weaving in a stick lets you cut your work off the loom and keep weaving on the same warp. It's one of those weaving techniques you'll turn to over and over.
Warping a loom back to front has its advantages! Lease sticks and a raddle keep your warps in order, and you start out securely attached to the back beam.
Learn the art of warping a loom front to back! Front to back warping gives you some flexibility in winding your warp and doesn't require a raddle.
Wondering what method of warping a loom you ought to use? Madelyn lays out the factors you should consider when deciding how to warp.
Understanding weave structures allows you to weave many variations on a single warp, and mix threadings and treadlings within and outside of a structure.
Are there any weaving techniques I can use to keep my edges from ruffling when I do a plain weave border on my lace handwovens?
Is using a floating selvedge "cheating" for a weaver? Madelyn van der Hoogt weighs in and explains how to navigate floating selvedges easily.
What do you do if your floating selvedge is getting paired with your edge warp thread in a visible way you don't like? Madelyn explains her method.
If you have a choice between sleying your floating selvedge in a dent by itself or with another thread, what should you do?