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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hi Madelyn! I am winding a warp for the Sotis Cloth table runner from the most recent Handwoven ( March/April 2013, pages 30–31 ). Is there any way to wind this warp besides tying on one color to the other at each color...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hello Madelyn, I just finished threading my reed putting 4 warp threads per dent. When I started to beam the warp it was a mess, there were so many tangles to comb out. Is there a trick for preventing the tangles when warping...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hi Madelyn! I have been trying to follow the directions you give in Warping Your Loom for winding 2 ends with an individual cross, but the 2 threads keep ending up twisting around each other. I can't quite follow your...
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Christina's very well used copy of The Weaver's Companion in its place of honor, surrounded its friends. Sometimes it seems as if weavers have an endless array of tools to choose from. We have hooks for threading the heddles and ones for threading the reed. We have temples to fit just about any...
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In honor of today’s twelve-tastic date (and our amazing $12.12 sale price for the Handwoven 2008 CD collection ) we’ve written up a weaver’s carol instead of our usual newsletter fare. We think it’s a theme most of us can relate to: falling in love with a project only to find...
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We receive frequent questions about what structures can be woven on a rigid-heddle loom. Here's Jane Patrick, former Handwoven editor and author of The Weaver’s Idea Book to tell you about a technique she's been exploring to create mixed-density scarves using two rigid heddles. ––Anita...
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If you want to know a culture, look at its cloth. The materials and tools speak to us of place, and the designs handed down the generations tell us the stories of a people. Those who preserve these traditions are treasures. The late Gilbert "Bobbo" Ahiagble was one of these, a man who dedicated...
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One of the wonderful things about making weaving videos is the dialogue that develops between the "stars," our beloved weaving teachers, and the viewers. Everyone learns! Here's our dear friend Tom Knisely to tell you what he's learned from the weavers who've watched his video....
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Karen's supplementary warp and weights Barbara Walker said it in a nutshell. “Since the pattern warp takes up differently from the ground warp, it must be tensioned separately. This is most easily done on a loom with two beams.” This wasn’t exactly the answer I was looking for when...
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Christina's new baby: and 8-shaft jack loom that she may or may not have named Lucille I'm terribly excited. I simply cannot stop smiling. Why? A couple weekends ago I purchased my first floor loom at a yard sale. The 8-shaft beauty hadn't been used in twenty-five years, and other than some...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Dear Madelyn, I recently purchased your video Warping Your Loom. I paid careful attention to your method as I warped 480 ends of 8/2 unmercerized cotton at 3 ends per dent. Everything went well except having 3 ends in a dent...
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Hi Madelyn! I watched your video Warping Your Loom and noticed that you didn't talk about how to measure a guide string and take different paths around the warping board to get a warp of a specific length, even to a designated number of inches. Do you ever do this? —Sarah McArdle Hi Sarah!...
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It’s National Craft Month, a great time to welcome new handweavers into our community. Rigid-heddle looms can provide an affordable and easy-to-learn introduction as we learn to weave, but they can also take us way beyond the basics. In celebration of the friendly and versatile rigid-heddle loom...
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Even if you lack space, it's still possible to get creative with the space you do have There are many things to love about my current home: the electric blue 1950s-style stars on the kitchen counter, the hardwood floors in the bedroom, and the huge backyard. One thing my home doesn’t have is...
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I love to spin and knit silk, but there’s something about perfectly smooth silk on a loom that’s simply irresistible. The Winter 2011 issue of SpinKnit features silk in many forms: handspun in Mexico for weaving on a backstrap loom, stretched into mawata and attenuated into unspun yarn, spun...