Madelyn explains how to use a temple with doubleweave.
Block weaves are structures in which groups of warp and weft threads can produce two different-looking interlacements, one that identify as “pattern,” the other as “background.”
I have always followed a certain rule for using the tabby weft in supplementary-weft structures such as overshot and summer and winter: Throw the tabby pick before the pattern pick. Please tell me the reason for this.
Madelyn provides two methods for handling warp threads that aren't being caught when weaving with two shuttles.
When you rethread your heddles for a new weave structure, what should you do about the sett in the reed?
Is there a best yarn or structure for a handwoven towel? Madelyn gives her opinion.
Is there an easy way to double threads on a pirn or bobbin without them separating or tangling? Madelyn has the answer!
Madelyn explains how to take an 8-shaft draft and reduce it to 4 shafts.
How do you read a threading draft? Does it matter whether you’re warping front-to-back or back-to-front? Madelyn has the answers.