Celebrate Americana with the March/April 2019 issue dedicated to North American handweaving and its long history.
It isn’t that easy to have looms in two places unless you are willing to create two weaving studios.
Nervous about giving overshot weaving a try? Here are five tips from designer Pattie Graver to ensure great overshot results!
Just about anyone is capable of winding a warp and weaving a scarf on a rigid-heddle loom, but weaving a wonderful scarf takes thought, planning, and sometimes a fair amount of patience. This is why I love Loom Theory: Rigid-Heddle Scarf Collection.
In 2018, Handwoven associate editor Christina Garton and I worked together to complete five issues of the magazine. We didn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, do it alone. We did it with the help of a whole bunch of great people.
Random design is a fascinating concept, but well-designed is also wonderful, and a good designer can do both. We didn’t randomly choose designers for the three Loom Theory 2018 lookbooks.
Many of us grew up getting and giving little boxes of Conversation Hearts on Valentine’s Day made by the New England Confectionery Company (Necco), so it was worrisome when I learned that the Necco hearts wouldn’t be available this year.
One of the fun things about being editor of Handwoven is coming up with the editorial calendar for the upcoming year.
I’ve came upon this source list of twills from 1985. Nearly 35 years later, these terms and descriptions remain pertinent.
I believe weaving is on the upswing. It may be strictly anecdotal and I may be biased (imagine!), but in the past few years, I’ve noticed many new weaving books being published, a surge in membership in my own weaving guild, and more interesting weaving.
