Madelyn helps a weaver find good resources for warping her sectional warp beam.
The Fibonacci Sequence can be a great aid in designing handwovens.
In her Yarn Lab from the March/April 2017 issue of Handwoven, Jodi Ybarra takes cotton and linen yarns loved by mutlti-shaft loom weavers and makes them sing on her rigid-heddle loom.
Read Madelyn's advice on how to pick the right loom for weaving runners or other projects.
I wound 2 ends of 8/2 unmercerized cotton and 1 end of 20/2 pearl cotton together. Now I am having all sorts of tension issues with the ends twisted together.
Reducing draw-in will also prevent your selvedge ends from fraying, but how do you do it?
You see a project you really love, but you don’t have the right yarns. You could order them, but you want to start weaving today. Here are some tips for using the yarns you have.
Novelty yarns are very familiar to knitters, but not something you find in a hard-core weaving shop. Why is this? I think it’s because knitters have a much easier time working fancy yarns into their projects.