Rug


10 Reasons You Need to Know How to Weave Rugs

They’re quick to make, easy to customize, and weaving them is a great way to recover from a bad day.

Notes from the Fell: Rag Rug Color Gamps

How to understand your rug‘s warp and weft color interactions

Choosing and Using Shuttles: Rug and Ski Shuttles Revisited

In this second entry in our series, Liz Moncrief covers her favorite types of weaving shuttles.

The Adopt-A-Native-Elder Navajo Rug Show & Sale: Supporting Indigenous Weavers for 34 Years

This is the story of the Adopt-A-Native-Elder program and how the annual Navajo Rug Show & Sale is a tale of love for Navajo weavings and the Navajo elders who weave them. Join the story on November 10, 2023!

Free Rug Weaving Patterns

Anita shares a few of her favorite resources on weaving rugs, including a collection of free woven rug patterns that you'll love! Ready to weave a rug?

Notes from the Fell: Rag Weaving--For the Love of Rags

Looking to update some worn textiles? Give them a new lease on life in a new form.

Call for Submissions: Handwoven May/June 2024—Rugs, Rug Structures, and Asymmetry

Our summer issue will concentrate on rugs and rug structures and a subject that is somewhat off-center: “Symmetry is Overrated.”

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Hone Your Rug-Weaving Skills with this Beautiful Boundweave eBook

This compilation of five boundweave patterns will inspire and encourage you to give weft-faced weaving a try! Any one of these beautiful projects would be wonderful to weave and to own.

Create a Couple of Cocktail Carpets

Jennifer Kwong’s beginner friendly Palm Springs Cocktail Carpets are a perfect example of how simple elements can combine to create complex-looking cloth.

Long Thread Podcast: Lynda Teller Pete

Season 6, Episode 4: A fifth-generation Navajo weaver, Lynda lives in two worlds: the world of a traditional Navajo woman weaving exquisite textiles, and the world of book author, curator, board member, world traveler.