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Ask Madelyn: Beaming Warps

When beaming warps, I understand a lot of weavers like to use water-filled recycled plastic bottles with handles as weights. Can you suggest another thing that can be used as a weight?

Spotting Trends at the TNNA Summer Trade Show

The TNNA trade show is an event where yarn companies and other knitting suppliers gather to introduce new products and colorways that launch this fall.

Give Your Weaving Some Extra Oomph with Lattice Fringe

Lattice fringe is a fun and easy way to give your handwoven cloth some extra oomph.

Ask Madelyn: Reed Substitutions

I only have a 10-dent reed, so I used slightly finer warp threads and sleyed 4/dent for 4 dents and then skipped 1 dent, but the skipped dent is very obvious in the cloth. Any suggestions?

Peacock Alley: The Once Chenille Capital of the World

While reading the excellent book The Girls of Atomic City, I was surprised to see a sentence casually mentioning that Georgia was once a hub of chenille production.

Two Rules About Color Theory in Weaving

Through study and sampling Tien Chiu learned two simple rules that will help you in your own color choices.

Ask Madelyn: Minimizing Warp Waste

How much extra warp should I allow in order to retie the remaining warp? I'm using silk yarn so I don't want much warp waste.

In Praise of Boredom, the Catalyst of Creativity

Boredom is the catalyst of creativity and impetus of adventure. As weavers, it’s often boredom that challenges us to try a new structure or technique and to build our weaving skills.

Marie Antoinette and Muslin Disease

Women would sometimes wear these muslin dresses in all kinds of weather—rain or shine. According to some sources, this led to an increase of respiratory illnesses dubbed “muslin disease.”

Dreaming of Deflected Doubleweave

I remember the first time I saw deflected doubleweave—it was a set of scarves woven by Madelyn and featured in the January/February 2007 issue of Handwoven.