Someone recently asked me why I became a weaver. One reward of becoming a weaver is the friendships you make with other weavers.
I’ve noticed that weavers also have a unique way of greeting each other. It usually starts with the “weaver’s handshake."
I have a question about cotton shrinking. When I use handwoven kitchen towels, usually 8/2 cotton, they seem to keep shrinking every time they are washed.
When is it too late to start using a temple? Madelyn explains to a reader how to salvage her much-too-drawn-in selvedges!
Weaving silk is absolutely a wonderful experience—perhaps the only thing better is wearing silk.
Turn the overshot draft so a section of the overshot pattern became two supplemental warp stripes running the length of the scarf.
Weaving with rags, for example, shows up around the world for millennia. And it’s easy to see why: when people made all their cloth by hand, they didn’t want to waste even a scrap.
As The Mannings prepares to close its doors for good, Tom gives one last tribute to the school where he got his start weaving, spinning, and teaching.
Gina Hedegaard Nielson knows a thing or two about Nordic weaving. Not only is she professional weaver in her native Denmark, she’s also the editor of a Danish textile magazine.
In essence, you are asking whether weavers really need to use a temple.