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As we inch our way closer and closer to 2017 it’s hard not to be introspective about the previous year and wonder and hope about what the new year will bring. This is true for me pretty much every year, but especially so now that I’m 7, going on 8, mo
Thanks to her delightful books, Beatrix Potter will probably always be associated with various animals, especially rabbits. In her real life, Potter was known for her sheep.
Here's Madelyn with some weaving techniques to help you accurately measure the length of a project on the loom. It's a key part of learning how to weave!
Turn rags into handwoven riches.
Here are some tips for keeping your handwoven cloth clean.
Check out these 4-shaft overshot towels by Pattie Graver.
One of those universals is the weaving of mats and rugs to put both outside and inside the home. These mats were first and foremost useful—they were places to sleep, they could be something to kneel on when doing manual labor, or to keep your home warme
Runners are a great way to decorate a table. Check out this ebook of 12 table runner patterns for 4 and 8 shaft looms.
I hope you love these towels as much as I do, and that if you end up weaving them that they make you feel as happy and cozy as they do for me.
Tinkuy: Coming Together. While it means a “coming together” in Quechua, it means more than that. It means (among other untranslatable things) coming together like rushing streams converging in foaming eddies to create a bigger river.
I don’t think I can think of a better project for a cold December weekend that weaving up a nice, cozy scarf, and I don’t know of a more wintery scarf than the gorgeous American Snowflake Scarf by Jan Josifek.
As Associate Editor of Handwoven I’ve had the joy of reading and writing about the Textile Museum at George Washington University many times. Located in Washington, D.C., the museum gets some of the most extraordinary exhibits, and as much as I enjoy wr
