Yarn Lab: Rigid-Heddle Experiments
In her Yarn Lab from the March/April 2017 issue of Handwoven, Jodi Ybarra takes cotton and linen yarns loved by mutlti-shaft loom weavers and makes them sing on her rigid-heddle loom.
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In her Yarn Lab from the March/April 2017 issue of Handwoven, Jodi Ybarra takes cotton and linen yarns loved by mutlti-shaft loom weavers and makes them sing on her rigid-heddle loom.
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