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How to Weave a Scarf: Seven Handwoven Scarves from Weaving Today Scarves are the weaver's playground: a chance to explore color and weave structures to your heart's content. When you weave a scarf, you're not committing your loom for weeks or months, and you don't have to spend a fortune...
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Allison I rwin's Sun and Stars Pouc h may be my holiday weaving treat to myself. I love this time of year––the sparkling lights in the long, dark night, holiday music, weaving cozily while storms rage outside, and visiting with family and friends. I try to avoid the holiday hype: crowded...
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way––things I had no words for. ––Georgia O'Keefe Color inspiration: Karla Stille's clever see-through rep weave rugs will be featured in the next issue of Handwoven . A couple of years...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Dear Madelyn, I would like to weave a scarf project that uses a supplementary warp. Under equipment, it says to use ". . . a second warp beam or large plastic bottles for weighting a supplementary warp." Can you...
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Virginia West and weaving friends having a weaving conversation in the 1950s, "when we wore pearls." A Biblical scholar and linguist once told me that in some translations, the quote from the Book of Genesis, "In the beginning was the Word," comes out as "In the beginning was...
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Lovely Sea Silk warp waiting for an open loom. Time for naughty Gigi to give up her hammock! OK, new year, new beginnings. In honor of our upcoming March/April issue on plant fibers, I'm designing a handwoven scarf made with Handmaiden Sea Silk fingering weight yarn. (After all, seaweed is a plant...
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By the time you read this, I will be headed over the river (the Columbia) and through the woods of Oregon and western Washington, to have Thanksgiving with my family in the Seattle area. Over the long holiday weekend, we'll bundle up and walk around the town where I grew up, enjoying the holiday...
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Recently my father-in-law came for a visit. It was during this time that much of Northern Colorado was covered with a heavy layer of snow, the sort of nasty, wet, heavy snow that breaks off tree branches and snaps power lines. While my family was lucky enough to keep power, the Interweave offices were...
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How to Weave a Scarf from Weaving Today: Six Handwoven Scarves I've said many times that weaving is unique in its appeal to two widely divergent personality types: techy people who love structure and pattern and touch-feely people who love color and texture. Liz Gipson's lacy Mora wool scarf...
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Tien Chiu's Kodachrome Coat is one of the fashion-forward designs you'll find in the September/October issue of Handwoven . Any week now, those mammoth September issues of the big fashion magazines will be straining newsstand shelves and clogging mailboxes. The fall fashion trends – and...
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Everyone has their own path through the textile arts. For example, I am a filthy fiber fondler. Perfect inspiration: my own yarn handspun from roving dyed by friend Klaus Kronenberg. Perfect vacation fun: weaving a handspun scarf on my sweet little rigid heddle loom. It's true. I would belong to...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hi, Madelyn - I am interested in finding some sort of chart that shows how to translate the yarn size and weight as well as the ends per inch into what size reed to use and how to sley the reed so the piece isn't too wide...
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Robin Lynde takes design inspiration from Georgia O'Keefe. To be a “Designer” of handwovens, you don’t have to be able to draw, you don’t have to be “good” with color, and you don’t have to have years of experience or classes in an art school. You can start...
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Later this week, when the January/February 2011 issue of Handwoven starts arriving in mailboxes, you will notice a reference to 16-shaft drafts for Laura Fry's "Say It" scarves. We'll soon be posting this information here on Weaving Today within the Free Stuff/Projects gallery. Laura's...
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Do you have a studio pet and/or children in your life? If so, you will love the delightful children's book The Weaving Adventures of Edgar and Rita. Edgar, a golden retriever, lives with Rita, a weaver. Edgar accompanies Rita on frequent walks and notices how the things they observe on their outings...