As fall approaches, many of us put away our summery scarves in favor of wrapping ourselves in warm throws, or lay down cushy rugs to welcome bare toes at bedside. The Fall 2025 issue of Handwoven will focus on projects for home that welcome us, body and soul.
We’re looking for new rug ideas to warm up our floors, or for pillows in a host of shapes—round, square, spherical, or bolsters—to freshen the couch, or a rectangle to soften the weaving bench. You could design a curtain to help keep the chilly weather outside. Don't forget about blankets for beds, or throws to nestle into for book time or TV time (or, let‘s be honest, nap time). And we’re always looking for splendid dish towel designs, because weavers simply love them.
Structures to consider using in your designs? Twills, of course, and also doublecloth, crackle, overshot, summer and winter, or monk‘s belt—but feel free to surprise us. Plant or animal fibers? That’s your call!
Starting with this issue, we’d like project designers to offer suggestions for how readers can make the project their own—for instance, ideas for alternate colorways or for other uses for your draft (like turning a dishtowel into a scarf if the hand of the textile is right for that kind of thing).
Whether you‘ve submitted projects to Handwoven before or this is your first time, we strongly encourage you to show us your ideas—you never know until you try!
Sara Pate’s Alaska Flag Doubleweave Coverlet from March/April 2019 is just right for an afternoon snooze. Photo by Matt Graves
How to submit a proposal
Please use our Handwoven submission form for proposals.
Submission guidelines can be found here.
Check out the palette for the issue here.
We base our project selections for each issue on the information provided on the submission form, as well as on contributor photographs.
We will review the proposals and ask for additional photographs or information if needed, to be sent in by December 23, 2024. After the project-selection meeting, we will contact everyone whose project is accepted and ask that it be submitted along with the project paperwork by the final submissions date listed below.
Proposals for projects and articles due: November 4, 2024
Submissions in the form of photographs and article outlines due: December 23, 2024
Final submissions, including projects and paperwork, due: February 10, 2025
If you‘d like to get a head start on the paperwork, look here to choose the option that fits your project.
Please use the email address below for inquiries that won’t fit into our submission form. If pieces of your proposal cannot be emailed, please contact us and ask for a physical mail address.
Editorial email: [email protected]
I look forward to seeing your proposals!
Happy weaving,
Lynn