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Tien Chiu is an award-winning designer and weaver, evident in her Flower Scarves from Handwoven May/June 2018. Based on colors from a photograph of flowers, Tien carefully planned a striped warp that highlighted her chosen colors.
As a challenge to myself and to prepare the way for the new cones of yarn I intend to purchase at the marketplace, I decided to weave stashbusting towels that would use up some practically empty cones of 8/2 cotton I already had.
I am planning a project from Handwoven's Design Collection 19. Instead of the 10/2 Tencel specified, I ordered 8/2 Tencel. Can I use this in place of the 10/2 and should I change the sett from 2 per dent in 12- dent reed to another reed or sleying order?
Weaving inspiration can come from anywhere as Connie Westbrook shows in her Pool-Inspired Towels that she based on the tiles in the pool where she swims. The 8-shaft turned twill pattern mimics the lanes in a public pool and also the tiling around the edg
it should come as no surprise that some weavers have taken their love of music and turned it into cloth. Here’s Nancy Dunlap on her connection to music, weaving, and her Symphony No. 1 in Rep Minor (aka rep weave rug).
Madelyn explains turned twills and how to weave them.
We found a glossary of stripes in a couple of old issues of Handwoven (March/April 1983 and March/April 2003) and used them as our guide.
Kathleen Farling, like many weavers, loves samples, especially guild samples. One such sample spoke to her and led her to design and weave her Centuries in the Making Runner.
There isn’t really a way to translate an 8-shaft draft to four, but you can create similar effects by substituting a 4-shaft twill for an 8-shaft one or by using the same block weave you see in an 8-shaft project but reducing the number of blocks.
Anita Osterhaug is taken by West African textiles and shows her appreciation in her Homage to Africa Scarf. Anita used traditional colors and a 4-shaft twill to honor African kilims and applied a simple block-print design inspired by bogolonfini prints.
The Weavers' Companion, in addition to many other helpful tips and resources, has a handy Reed Chart that gives the sleying orders to use for all conceivable warp setts with all available reeds.
I’m sure there are many more ways to weave hearts, but perhaps these downloadable Valentine’s Day WIFs will get you started.
