The musical 'Hair' owes its unique esthetic to designer Marian Clayden, but her unique textiles had an even wider impact on art, fashion, and culture.
The slip stitch lets you join two folded pieces of fabric in a way that makes the stitch nearly invisible. It's easy once you know how to do it!
Christina finds inspiration for handwoven dish towels when she returns to her bookshelf. You never know what will strike your eye on the second pass!
This step-by-step tutorial on how to fix a broken warp thread on a rigid-heddle loom will teach you to quickly and easily fix these pesky weaving problems.
The key to twill is to understand it—how it works, how it behaves, and how to adjust as needed to get the weave you want.
Probably as long as folks have been weaving, weavers have found inspiration in the cloth of others. Textiles are a universal language that spans countries, continents, and even time.
Sometimes the best approach to using fabulous yarns such as handpainted or variegated is the simplest.
For my breadcloth, I took an even more spontaneous approach. Rather than stick to a few specific colors I grabbed my box of partial bobbins of 8/2 cotton and started weaving.
Looking for direction as to which Handwoven issues you might want to revisit? Start with Linda Ligon's top three.
Recently I was tasked with creating a small and easy pin loom project for an upcoming magazine.
