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Color is a core element in designing any weaving project, predicting the complex interaction of wa rp and weft colors, yarn textures, and color proportions. Even for a warp-faced inkle band, there are many interesting choices to be made. Here's Handwoven editor emerita Jane Patrick to tell you about...
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To be a weaver is to dream. We dream of the exquisite projects we will make, and when life permits, we actually weave some of them. Here's a letter that my friend Julie Barnes wrote to her weaving cooperative recently. It's more about life than weaving, and I love it because it could have come...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hi Madelyn, I was wondering if there is a way to fix a missed stitch in weaving? My shed didn’t open far enough and a couple of warp threads didn’t catch properly. I think I heard somewhere that these can be fixed...
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Tom Knisely goes through every step of weaving a good rug in his newest video. It's time for new beginnings, new projects, and new skills. Weaving Today contributor and Handwoven tech editor Susan Horton's got the itch to weave rugs for her home. Here is her review of a new rug weaving video...
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Weavers who will be in the Cleveland, Ohio, area over the next eight weeks will have access to a rare treat. Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes is currently on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art until January 6th. The Wari Empire ruled Peru for nearly 400 years between 600-1000 AD, and laid the foundation...
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My first formal weaving instruction was in tapestry weaving. For a year, several other weavers and I would drive together down to Salem once a month to study with Kathe Todd Hooker. Besides being a renowned tapestry weaver, Kathe is a fine teacher. In addition to the basics of warping and tapestry weaving...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Madelyn is away at Convergence this week so we've pulled a classic Ask Madelyn from our Weaving Today archives. This Ask Madelyn was originally published April 6, 2011. Madelyn, I am weaving tartan and wondering what is...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Good Morning, Madelyn, I want to know if it is possible to make a twisted fringe on a scarf without hemstitching first. While I like hemstitching, I think that having just the fringe without the hemstitching would give it...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hi Madelyn, As a relatively new weaver, I am still discovering things. I was weaving some plain-weave towels and noticed that my left edge was much neater than my right edge. I had an even number of warp threads so that meant...
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Sometimes I wonder whether my obsession with weaving is pushing toward unhealthy. I was sitting in the dentist’s chair this afternoon and the hygienist was poking away, measuring my gum pockets. I could barely hear her muttering very softly 2-2-2-2-3-2-2. Then she would stop and reach up to note...
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I know we'd all rather be weaving than almost anything. But studies show that almost 9 out 0f 10 weavers also knit when they can't be at their looms. (And these studies were even slightly more scientific than the classic one about "four out of five dentists surveyed" who recommended...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Okay, Madelyn – This is SO basic you won’t believe it; and maybe there isn’t a tried and true one answer. Ever since I’ve been weaving, I’ve always used a tabby thread that was finer than the...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Madelyn, I am weaving tartan and wondering what is the proper way to deal with the frequent colour changes. Does one break and restart or carry the yarn up the edges. The latter works for a couple of rows but looks messy for...
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Dear wise, generous, imaginative, lyrical readers, how can I ever thank you? Last week I wrote you a tongue-in-cheek request for advice with a very real problem: deciding what to weave with some beloved yarn, and you responded with empathy, ideas, personal stories, and rich gifts of weaverly spirit....
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hi Madelyn! In the Slow Cloth issue (November/December 2010), Rita Hagenbruch’s coverlet on page 43 uses unmercerized 16/2 cotton and 20/2 pearl (mercerized) cotton for the tabby weft. This is unusual—I would think...