You may have seen Poppana or it's shuttles and not known what you were looking at. Tom Knisely investigated weaving with poppana strips using its special shuttles and wrote about it in "Notes from the Fell" in Handwoven May/June 22.
Take a trip down memory lane with these new WIFs in the Handwoven Library.
If the sett for plain weave using 8/2 cotton is 20 epi, does that mean the sett for 16/2 cotton would be 40 epi? Madelyn explains some of the nuances of yarns and setts.
Tom Knisely is a master rug-weaver, and he has lots of insights to share. Learn how to weave a rug with Tom, with a focus on good technique and materials.
Season 6, Episode 1: A fanatical weaver, Linda Ligon started a newsletter at her dining room table with an electric typewriter. Decades later, she's still in love with words on paper.
When you are weaving only two picks of a color, hiding the ends can be, shall we say, tricky?
Oops! While we try our best to keep our projects error-free, sometimes corrections need to be made. Here are some corrections from Handwoven, 2012.
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Download this PDF of Janney Simpson’s 8-shaft deflected doubleweave scarf with shifting layers, pockets, and connections.
Use paper weaving to learn about color combinations, color-and-weave designs, and even weave structures without worrying about warp tension, yarn choices, or setts.
A clever way to play with color in weaving is to use only a few colors to create more colors in the cloth.
Need a new technique for your weaving tool box? Check out this video clip!
If cutting into handwoven cloth makes you break out in a sweat, read about these simple but fun projects that are stress free!
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Imitation is a form of flattery, and in weaving it pops up all the time.
