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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

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

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 in the Cusco area. At a gathering of weavers the next evening, the talk inevitably turned to the subject of selvedges.
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Published 27 Feb 2013 4:00 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: How To Weave, Weaving Supplies, Weaving Tools, Weaving
Finishing Touches

Go into any museum that exhibits old textiles, pull out your magnifying glass or loupe, and prepare to have your hat pop off at the wonder of the finishing details you’ll see there. The fabrics themselves may be awesome, but it’s the little...

Published 20 Feb 2013 4:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving
A Handwoven Mystery

This past autumn my husband and I were driving through the mountains and forests of northern Colorado enjoying the peak fall foliage and exploring the small towns we found along the way. This is how we ended up in Walden, Colorado, and more specifically...

Published 15 Feb 2013 10:20 AM by Christina Garton

Filed under: How To Weave, Weaving Patterns, Weaving
Great Teachers Live on in Their Students

Sara Lamb’s loose drafting style. In Spin to Weave Sara Lamb demonstrates combining warps in the reed. Nothing beats watching someone do their craft, especially when the craft is also yours. It is no surprise that crafts are such a communal hobby...

Published 13 Feb 2013 4:53 PM by Liz Good

Filed under: How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving
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
When You Need Answers Quick

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...

Published 1 Feb 2013 4:00 AM by Robyn Spady

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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
There is a Season

For those of us who live in northern climes, winter still reigns and, baby, it's cold outside. But spring waiting is in the wings, and the cycle of life is starting again. All my shepherding friends are awaiting the start of lambing season, welcoming...

Published 25 Jan 2013 2:37 PM by rlynde7811

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Priscilla's Armenian Socks

PieceWork has been publishing a special theme issue on knitting for several years now, and it has become an annual best seller. It has even spawned a spinoff, Knitting Traditions , likewise a crazy success. Fascination with our knitting roots seems to...

Published 18 Jan 2013 4:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: How To Weave, Weaving
Totally Terrific Twill

As part of my job, I am constantly surrounded by all things weaving. I spend most of each day reading, writing, and talking about various aspects of weaving, and all the beautiful projects we publish in the magazine spend several months in my office....

Published 17 Jan 2013 9:35 AM by Christina Garton

Filed under: How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving Patterns, 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 Down Ancient Roads

Ban d weaving has been a common thre ad for ce n turies across many cultu res . Guild friend Cookie Mesmer weaving a bright band on her small inkle loom. Happy New Year! If you are reading this, then we both have survived the end of the Mayan calendar...

Published 2 Jan 2013 3:12 AM by Anita Osterhaug

Filed under: How To Weave, Weaving Loom, Weaving Patterns, Weaving, Inkle Loom Weaving

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