Expert weaver Pattie Graver, author of Next Steps in Weaving: What You Never Knew You Needed to Know, shares her warping tips for more successful weaving projects in this excerpt straight from her best selling book.
Having bought the spinning wheel, John Mullarkey looked around for an inexpensive way to give weaving a try and spotted weaving cards (or tablets, as they are officially known).
Get out your rigid-heddle loom if you need a warm scarf in a hurry.
As it turns out, weaving with a baby was not in the cards since life had very different plans for me.
If you ask me how I got started weaving, I have two answers: a simple one based on how I “officially” started, and one that covers the deeper question of why I started.
When Handwoven November/December 2010, dedicated to “slow cloth,” came out, Deborah told me her style of weaving might best be called “glacial weaving
The older I get, the more I choose to weave with thin fibers, such as fine cotton, linen, and silk because the results are more interesting for me. I also love to combine weave structures because that also produces interesting results.
I'm not advocating that everyone clean up their weaving studio, far from it. My point is about making your studio someplace that you want to be.
