Celebrate Americana with the March/April 2019 issue dedicated to North American handweaving and its long history.
Hemp yarn is eco-friendly and incredibly versatile. You can knit, crochet, weave, and even spin with it. But hemp’s greatness doesn’t end there!
How do you rewrite a complicated draft so it's readable for weaving on a table loom? Madelyn has a few suggestions to make your life so much easier.
First of all, whenever you cross a space-dyed warp with a weft (whether solid or space-dyed itself), if the weft shows at all, it will interrupt the stretches of solid color in the warp.
Recently archaeologists have unearthed what is now the world’s oldest trousers.
Using hand-cut stencils, textile artisans in Okinawa, Japan, have created incredibly detailed, resist-dyed fabrics since 1400.
For many people, denim blue jeans are an iconic part of American style. In reality, denim is as American as croissants.
The Iban weavers create cloth with beautiful designs that reflect the content of their dreams. Known as Pua Kumbu weaving, only positive dreams are woven and if a weaver has the same dream three times they are obligated to weave that dream.
Solar-powered textile technology is still in its early stages of development, and it could be several years before we can wear—or weave—solar-powered fabric. Learn about it.
In her A Job Made Easier Runner from the March/April 2019 issue of Handwoven, Nancy Dunlap explored the history of the table runner.