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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 Hi Madelyn! I have hunted in vain for instructions about warping a sectional beam. I have the tensioner but how do I know how much to put on each section? Can you direct me to a source, preferably one that doesn't leave...
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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hi Madelyn, A couple of years ago I purchased the eBook Best of Handwoven: Top Ten Towels on Four Shafts . I made several Keep It Simple Towels and would like to move on to the Rosepath Plaid Towels. I have woven several items...
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Many weavers also spin yarn, and some handspinners weave, but few of us produce most of our own weaving yarn. Fewer still have begun to explore all the color and texture possibilities of using handspun yarn in our weaving. Sara Lamb has integrated her passions for weaving and spinning for decades, each...
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This last week, I had the pleasure of attending the opening of an exhibit of Andean textiles from the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC). At the opening lecture, CTTC director Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez gave a slideshow and talk about the weaving techniques, traditions, and communities...
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Handweaving Supplies: A Guide to Choosing, Designing, and Weaving with Yarn Yarn is the joy and sometimes the bane of handweavers. Choose the right yarns, and a project sings. Choose the wrong yarns and, instead of weaving a handsome pattern, you can spend a lot of time and money producing a nondescript...
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Even expert weavers need help sometimes (not to mention the rest of us!). Here's Robyn Spady, one of my go-to weaving experts, to tell us where she turns for answers to those everyday weaving puzzles. - Anita Arrrrggggghhhhh! I need help! Well, not all the time; however, from time to time I find...
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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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Ask Madelyn HAVE A QUESTION? OUR EDITOR HAS THE ANSWER madelynv@interweave.com Hi Madelyn, A couple of years ago I purchased the eBook Best of Handwoven: Top Ten Towels on Four Shafts . I made several Keep It Simple Towels and would like to move on to the Rosepath Plaid Towels. I have woven several items...
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Hand Weaving Supplies: A Guide to Using a Warping Board, Weaving Shuttle, and Other Weaving Tools Many years ago, a starry-eyed young spinner in an Earth-Mother phase assured me that one could spin any fiber on anything, and then proudly demonstrated that she could spin with a potato stuck on a stick...