Linda Ligon and the Origin of Handwoven
Looking for direction as to which Handwoven issues you might want to revisit? Start with Linda Ligon's top three.
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Looking for direction as to which Handwoven issues you might want to revisit? Start with Linda Ligon's top three.
You would like Sara Lamb the minute you met her. She approaches weaving with her head and her whole heart.
Rita Buchanan spins and weaves her own placemats, table runners, napkins, aprons, kitchen towels, bath towels (handwoven terry cloth!), shirts, jackets, blankets, pillow cases – in short, she lives in an environment of beautiful handmade cloth.
Sara Lamb is a weaver, spinner, dyer, and an extraordinary teacher. She joins us today to share her path from cloth to fleece and back.
Demonstrating gives me a chance to watch the eyes of the public as “the light goes on,” as they watch cloth appear out of threads.
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.
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.
Deborah Chandler writes about working with Mayan women to develop the Mayan Hands line of hand-dyed yarns.
Most of the weavers I know wish they had more time to weave. I think that too often we allow ourselves the "indulgence" of weaving only when our other work is done.