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Check out these tips for taking care of your weaving.
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Check out these tips for taking care of your weaving.
Did you know that common laundry detergents and softeners might be harming your handwovens? Here’s the scoop on how to wash your cloth better.
I know some weavers hem their towels before finishing in the washing machine and dryer. Do you have a preferred way?
Using hand-cut stencils, textile artisans in Okinawa, Japan, have created incredibly detailed, resist-dyed fabrics since 1400.
Most projects need some sort of finishing touches, whether it is knotting, twisting fringe, hemming, or clipping and sewing in ends. And even then, an experienced weaver will tell you that the project still isn’t finished.
Applying the same standards to the finishing as you did to everything else about a project sometimes takes more time than the weaving.
There are two factors that contribute to choosing the optimum methods of wet finishing handwoven textiles. Madelyn explains the details.
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Here are some tips for keeping your handwoven cloth clean.
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
Advice from expert Laura Fry on how to wash handwoven textiles. If you properly care for handwovens, they'll stay in mint condition for many years to come! Download this free pdf with washing instructions for handwovens.