But I’ve gotten a lot of pleasure from making yarn this way. However you think about spinning and weaving, here is this weaver's approach to spinning:
When it comes to weaving techniques, pick your battles carefully, and I believe you will get more satisfaction from the process.
It's taken me years to undo the mindset of simple is better, but what I've learned along the way is how beautiful weaving colors can be.
I carefully wound a 13-yd warp of 8/2 natural cotton and took it off the warping board and then realized that I forgot to tie the cross. What should I do?
Why would a warp get tighter on one side of the loom and looser on the other?
You explained the need for and ways to use floating selvedges when you are weaving overshot. I was wondering why you would need a floating selvedge?
Whether done in traditional Scandinavian colors, or using a more contemporary palette, boundweave is a classic structure that is always in style.
I needed a rug for my kitchen, and weaving with rags sounded like the perfect solution. I have never woven with rags before.
Probably having multiple reeds would be preferable, however, reeds are expensive. If you could have only a few reeds, what reed sizes would you suggest?
In her article for the November/December 2017 issue of Handwoven, Madelyn van der Hoogt teaches you how to decipher old overshot drafts.