I’m looking at some wool yarn on eBay. They give the weight of the mystery yarn as 12 wraps per inch. I’ve asked the owner if they know how many yards per pound it is, but they don’t know. Can you point me in the right direction?
I am weaving a chenille afghan and using a temple to keep my edges straight. The afghan is 56” wide on loom, and I wanted the finished width to be about 50”. My question is what width should I set the temple to?
We found a glossary of stripes in a couple of old issues of Handwoven (March/April 1983 and March/April 2003) and used them as our guide.
Deb Essen will teach you the art of choosing colors for weaving design, so you always end up with success. Start here with some basic color theory!
Love to go out on the town but hate to take your big everyday purse to the theater or a nice restaurant? You need the Elegant Evening Bag from Easy Weaving with Little Looms 2018!
Taos, New Mexico and its surrounding communities have much to offer visiting handweavers.
For this doublewidth Harrisville wool blanket from the Best of Handwoven: Doubleweave, Doublewidth! eBook, I decided to push the time I had with the warp at the loom by designing in the reed.
One way to maximize the pleasure of color blending is to paint the warp, choosing and mixing as many colors as you like. As soon as the door is open to creating absolutely any color, the problem becomes: what colors to make?
For A Scarf for a Man from Three Centuries, Allen picked an old weave structure (4-shaft bumberet) and then wove a scarf using yarn he dyed with traditional techniques and modern commercially dyed yarn.
Deborah Bagley found booklets from the mid-1900s that feature pin loom weaving patterns that are anything but plain. She based her Pin-Striped Pin-Loom Pillow on float patterns she found that add texture, and then she added colors to enhance that texture.