Through study and sampling Tien Chiu learned two simple rules that will help you in your own color choices.
We thought it would be fun to take you behind the scenes at one of our more recent shoots: a set of workshops on doubleweave by the wonderful Jennifer Moore.
It isn’t that easy to have looms in two places unless you are willing to create two weaving studios.
Sometimes a project is based on a vision of the finished piece. Other times, I simpy fall in love with a skein and build a project around its best features.
I hope you have warped your Team Colors Scarf and are happily weaving along. Here are some weaving tips from designer/weaver Elisabeth Hill that you may find useful for this weave-along project or your next one.
I love it when weavers take traditional structures and weave them in such a way that it makes them into something more. Take Robin Wilton’s Huck Lace Meets Color-and-Weave scarf from the November/December 2018 Handwoven.
Take Jean Hill’s Bands of Color Napkins from the Sept/October 2018 issue of Handwoven. She took what could have been a beautiful, but somewhat boring, twill napkin and made it stand out with simple bands of color in the warp. The bands almost look like
I can admit it: not every skein of handspun yarn turns out as well as I’d envisioned. In fact, there’s the occasional skein that is downright unsightly.
You never know how two colors will react with one another in weaving until after a few throws of the shuttle. It took Sarah H. Jackson a few tries to find just the right design for her gorgeous Inspired by Color Towels from Handwoven May/June 2018.
It’s easy to feel that your first weaving projects are too simple, or that you’ll never be able to weave complicated patterns and complex cloth of your dreams. You will love the inspiration behind Marty Benson's Ring of Fancy Bath Mats from Handwoven