There isn’t really a way to translate an 8-shaft draft to four, but you can create similar effects by substituting a 4-shaft twill for an 8-shaft one or by using the same block weave you see in an 8-shaft project but reducing the number of blocks.
When it comes to weaving courses, sitting in the front and center of the classroom might not always be possible or advisable. Fortunately, there are other tips and tricks to help you get the most out of any weaving workshop!
For A Scarf for a Man from Three Centuries, Allen picked an old weave structure (4-shaft bumberet) and then wove a scarf using yarn he dyed with traditional techniques and modern commercially dyed yarn.
Sometimes two things come together and make a design come to life. That’s what happened when Angela K. Schneider looked at a rigid-heddle warp she had designed for a class and saw the colors of Mardi Gras. Her rigid-heddle Mardi Gras scarf came to life!
Anita Osterhaug is taken by West African textiles and shows her appreciation in her Homage to Africa Scarf. Anita used traditional colors and a 4-shaft twill to honor African kilims and applied a simple block-print design inspired by bogolonfini prints.
Lucienne Coifman wowed us with her Wavelets Rep-Weave Table Runner woven on 8-shafts. Rep weave as we know it has straight lines, but Lucienne, through a smart use of thin weft picks, was able to break those lines and make them wavy. You might think you k
Deborah Jarchow placed two strips of plain-weave fabric on the diagonal to construct her clever and playful Play the Angles Poncho with the fold-down collar. You don’t need a big loom for this project; the two strips can be woven on a 12” rigid-heddle loom
Deborah Bagley found booklets from the mid-1900s that feature pin loom weaving patterns that are anything but plain. She based her Pin-Striped Pin-Loom Pillow on float patterns she found that add texture, and then she added colors to enhance that texture.
For many of us, 2017 was a difficult year. Sarah H. Jackson turned to her loom to express her feelings about personal trials and tragedies affecting our nation and the world. The result is her Prayer Shawl woven in 4-shaft shadow weave.
I typically warp my loom front to back. However, lately I've been planning some projects that require much longer warps (8+ yards). I was told that if you are planning a long warp that it is best to warp a floor loom back to front because it allows you to