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I love silk. To me, it's the perfect fiber. It's lustrous and strong, with delicious drape. It is warm, but not overly so. It's not fussy to warp or weave, and it dyes beautifully, either with acid dyes or with fiber-reactive dyes and soda ash.
Weavers can communicate across languages using drafts.
Yarn is both the weaver's best friend and our sometimes enemy. When we use it correctly and play nice, together we can create just about anything our hearts desire. When we use the wrong yarn or when we mistreat our yarns, bad things can happen.
A couple of weeks ago I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Convergence as the official representative of Handwoven. I took lots of wonderful classes, met many amazing weavers and vendors, and laughed a lot. I also got to play.
Laura Fry will give you the confidence you need to wet-finish without worry.
Honeycomb is not a specific weave structure but a term we use to describe a cloth in which some threads wiggle around others to make wavy shapes
Deborah Chandler writes about working with Mayan women to develop the Mayan Hands line of hand-dyed yarns.
It is a known fact that handwoven towels are important in the cooking of holiday meals.
This E-book will help you branch out in your color choices and make strides in your color use in weaving.
As much as I enjoy giving out fancy scarves and elegant tea towels, I sometimes forget that the simplest gifts can be the best, especially when they are full of love.
If there had been a place in the pottery class, Christina might not be weaving today!
Learn about waffle weave with this ebook full of great projects.
