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Inkle Weaving: Color and Design

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...

Published 10 May 2013 4:00 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Tapestry Weaving, Weaving Patterns, Weaving, Inkle Loom Weaving
Scouting Tomorrow's Weavers

Summer is a time for bright and breezy weaving projects: a colorful something to grace our summer wardrobe or a summer table; something quick so we can get back to the garden or other summer hobbies, or something we can do as a summer activity with children...

Published 1 May 2013 4:00 AM by katsgray

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving
The Weaver's Playground

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...

Published 6 Mar 2013 9:00 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving Patterns, Handwoven Scarves, Weaving
Of Life and Loom

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...

Published 1 Mar 2013 8:50 AM by JulietBarnes

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Yarning for Answers

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...

Published 6 Feb 2013 4:00 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Supplies, Weaving Patterns, Weaving
The Allure of Weaving

I am fascinated by what drives people to want to weave. For me, I think it is a natural curiosity to understand just how threads interlace to create a textile. It is a lot of fun to take a fragment of a coverlet and analyze it to see just how the threads are interwoven and identify the weave structure.
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Published 30 Jan 2013 4:30 AM by Tom Knisely

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving Patterns, Woven Rugs, Weaving
Spending Our Weaving Time

Suzanne Halvorson's scarves are inspired by African kente cloth. Did you make New Year’s weaving resolutions? My resolutions invariably involve setting aside more time: more time for weaving, for exercise, for reading, for visiting with family...

Published 9 Jan 2013 4:00 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving Patterns, Weaving
Weaving a Good Rug

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...

Published 4 Jan 2013 4:00 AM by sehorton

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Tapestry Weaving, Woven Rugs, Weaving, Rag Rugs
Weaving Expectations

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...

Published 7 Dec 2012 9:33 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving Patterns, Handwoven Scarves, Weaving
Weaving and Waulking with Norman Kennedy

The Work of Weaving The first time we spoke, Norman Kennedy wasn’t entirely certain he wanted to do a video about spinning, weaving, and waulking. Norman Kennedy established a weaving school near his home in rural Vermont. Norman stands with the...

Published 28 Nov 2012 4:00 AM by anne merrow

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Woven Throws, Weaving
The Architecture of Weaving

Liz Moncrief is a frequent contributor to Handwoven . Her busy, enquiring mind keeps her looms humming with interesting new weaving projects. Here she is to share her latest quest! ––Anita Just one of Liz's forays into designing with blocks...

Published 9 Nov 2012 9:54 AM by Liz.Moncrief

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Free Handwoven Bag Projects from Weaving Today

I have a confession to make: I am the Imelda Marcos of bags. I don't sigh for Prada purses or Coach clutches, but I can't pass up handwoven bags of any shape or size. I have handwoven bags for projects, for carrying equipment, and for hauling vast quantities of yarn. I love handwoven purses, cell phone covers, notion bags . . . you name it!
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Published 25 Oct 2012 9:45 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving Patterns, Weaving, Woven Bags
2012 Teacher of the Year

Robert demonstrating injection dyeing We have a winner! After counting all the votes and reading over each nomination, Robert Hils of the Southwest School of Art (SSA) is Handwoven ’s 2012 Teacher of the Year. Not only did Robert get the most votes...

Published 3 Oct 2012 3:01 AM by Christina Garton

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Speaking in Color

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...

Published 31 Aug 2012 4:00 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Patterns, Handwoven Scarves, Weaving
FreeTapestry Weaving Projects from Weaving Today

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...

Published 22 Aug 2012 11:50 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: Weaving Projects, How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Tapestry Weaving, Weaving

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