I still remember very well the first time I spoke with Tom Knisely. I had just started at Handwoven and Madelyn told me to call Tom to interview him.
Lately I’ve been thinking about perspective and how it impacts my weaving and my life.
In essence, you are asking whether weavers really need to use a temple.
Expert weaver Pattie Graver, author of Next Steps in Weaving: What You Never Knew You Needed to Know, shares her warping tips for more successful weaving projects in this excerpt straight from her best selling book.
The closer denting of the edge threads is probably suggested in order to add a bit of strength to the selvedges.
Get out your rigid-heddle loom if you need a warm scarf in a hurry.
As it turns out, weaving with a baby was not in the cards since life had very different plans for me.
If you ask me how I got started weaving, I have two answers: a simple one based on how I “officially” started, and one that covers the deeper question of why I started.
