Handwoven Fall 2026 Web Extras and Bonus Materials

If you’re looking to find bonus web materials for Handwoven Fall 2026, you’re in the right place! Here you’ll find subscriber-exclusive projects and WIFs, lift plans, and other helpful links and resources.

Bonus Web Materials

Three projects in this issue have supplemental information that you can download for free at the following links.

Download full-size templates of the rabbit and squirrel cartoons for Deborah Silver’s Woodland Profiles Wall Art.
Download the full suggested 4-shaft and 8-shaft drafts, plus the tie-up for the 24-shaft draft used in the magazine, for Tien Chiu’s Fire Over Water Shawl.
Download an alternate tie-up and treadling for Towel 4 from Annette Swan Schipf's Shifting Structures Towels project.

WIFs

Don’t forget to check out the WIFs for this issue’s projects in the *Handwoven* library. They are free downloads for All Access members. (Note that WIFs are not generally provided for projects woven in plain weave.)
What are WIFs good for? Read about them here. If you’ve ever felt frustrated by the brackets in weaving drafts, click that link to learn about how WIFs and your weaving software may be able to make threading and treadling easier.

Fall 2026 Bonus Projects

Bonus projects for subscribers and All Access members: Full Circle Towels (left) and Puget Sound Shawl (right).

Visit the Handwoven library, or click below to access both BONUS patterns shown on page 77 of the issue, available only to subscribers and All Access members of Handwoven magazine.

Full Circle Towels, by Regina McInnes

Puget Sound Shawl, by Sue Anne Sullivan

Fall 2026 Individual Project PDFs

Visit the Handwoven library to download individual PDFs for projects in this issue, available to All Access members of Handwoven magazine.

Lift Plans

Below is a link to lift plans for the 4-shaft and 8-shaft versions of this issue’s cover project (the lift plan for the 24-shaft version is included in the print issue). The file is free to download for all readers. If you’re looking for lift plans for other projects in this issue, please send us an email.

Fire Over Water Shawl 4-shaft and 8-shaft lift plan download

Helpful Links and Resources for this issue

NOTES FROM THE FELL

Read what Tom Knisely wrote previously about his experiments weaving with variegated threads in the Summer 2026 issue of Handwoven (on p. 14).

SHIFTING STRUCTURES TOWELS

Read what Carol Strickler wrote about blending drafts (on p. 37).
Madelyn van der Hoogt also discusses blending drafts (on p. 18).
Follow former Handwoven editor Susan E. Horton as she takes readers along on her own draft-blending adventure.

REAL TALK ABOUT WEAVING WITH SILK (p. 57)

Tom Knisely shows how to use loops at the back of the loom to extend a warp in his video course The Loom Owner’s Companion. You’ll find it at about 28 minutes into the ”Get to Know Your Loom” section.

ENDNOTES

Deborah Chandler is once again asking for your ideas about how to deal with physical challenges when weaving—please email them here.
Plus! Read Deborah’s previous article on the topic, which had lots of reader suggestions (on p. 26).

YARN LAB

Download the project instructions for Susan E. Horton’s Morning Chorus Napkins, woven with Berroco’s Tillie cupro yarn.

WOODLAND PROFILES WALL ART

We took a look at Deborah Silver’s innovative split-shed weaving technique, including how it enables four-shaft weavers to create curves and imagery using a variety of weave structures without the use of pick-up sticks. A group of lucky weavers joined Deborah Silver at Weave Together 2026 to learn the technique—they gave it rave reviews!

MAKE IT YOUR OWN

Handwoven’s free Master Yarn Chart provides information about yards per pound and sett for many yarns and fiber types. Download it here.

READER’S GUIDE

Looking for the Reader’s Guide? Visit this link to find information about multi-shaft techniques including reading drafts, twisting fringe, hemstitching, and more.

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