Christina Garton first fell in love with weaving after taking a class at a local fine art museum. Now, as the editor of Easy Weaving with Little Looms, she’s worked to create a publication that both nurtures newer weavers and challenges more experienced weavers. Christina enjoys weaving on all loom types, from homemade cardboard looms to her 8-shaft floor loom and all the other little looms in between.
I swear just a minute ago October was starting and we had months—months!—until The Holiday Season. Guess how many holiday weaving projects I’ve started.
Weaving silk is absolutely a wonderful experience—perhaps the only thing better is wearing silk.
Weaving with rags, for example, shows up around the world for millennia. And it’s easy to see why: when people made all their cloth by hand, they didn’t want to waste even a scrap.
I still remember very well the first time I spoke with Tom Knisely. I had just started at Handwoven and Madelyn told me to call Tom to interview him.
Babies change everything. This is what I was told frequently while I was pregnant, and today it’s a mantra I repeat as I try to balance the aspects of my old life, like weaving, with my new reality.
As it turns out, weaving with a baby was not in the cards since life had very different plans for me.
Whether you’re hosting Thanksgiving or going to visit loved ones here’s a list of the top five weaving projects for Thanksgiving.
I wanted a project that wasn’t even remotely wintery—something that evokes summertime. The obvious choice was Sarah H. Jackson’s beautiful Shades of India Towels.
Many rigid heddle projects are striking because rigid-heddle weavers have no fear of using novelty yarn.
After looking at Pantone’s 2017 Fashion Color Report for fall, I am genuinely excited about the bright autumn color trends.
