Do you dream of handweaving a traditional coverlet for your bed but don’t have a loom wide enough? For her Alaska Flag Doubleweave coverlet in the March/April 2019 issue of Handwoven, Sara Pate did just that.
I was delighted to see Madelyn van der Hoogt listed as the inspiration for Ann Weymouth’s Tied Overshot Journey Runner in the March/April 2019 issue of Handwoven.
If you want to try weaving with vicuña fiber you can try mixing it with a less expensive, but equally luxurious fiber in the warp such as guanaco or qiviut.
An end-feed shuttle operates with a pirn instead of a rotating bobbin. The problem with a rotating bobbin is that when the bobbin is full, it rotates fewer times than when it is empty to unload the same length of yarn.
During the mid- to late-eighteenth century, drizzling became quite the fashion in France to carefully remove gold and silver threads from other textiles so they could be sold.
When Susan E. Horton and I first decided to give our March/April 2019 issue of Handwoven an Americana theme, we knew there would be one weave structure that would probably reign supreme: overshot.
Madelyn explains how to set yourself up for success when weaving doublewidth doubleweave on a jack loom.
With twisty yarns or when you have several ends in a dent, you want to maintain the exact order of the threads from warping board to heddle.
I’d rather be weaving than doing many things: paying bills, making dinner, sitting in traffic, doing laundry, and lifting weights, to name just a few.
In her Rose Circles Bed Runner in the March/April 2019 issue of Handwoven, Rosalie Neilson takes the traditional coverlet and turns it on its head, all while paying homage to its history.