Rita Buchanan spins and weaves her own placemats, table runners, napkins, aprons, kitchen towels, bath towels (handwoven terry cloth!), shirts, jackets, blankets, pillow cases – in short, she lives in an environment of beautiful handmade cloth.
A reader has questions about caring for their handwoven tufted chenille cloth.
Download these instructions for weaving plaited twill wool scarves. Included are instructions for tying a new warp onto an previous one.
Want to try your hand at weaving with rags. Download this free pdf and get started on one of the three projects.
While floor looms are wonderful, nothing bits a rigid-heddle loom for doing beautiful pick-up and other hand-manipulated designs on your handwoven cloth!
While there's no wrong season for handwoven scarves, something about winter makes weaving scarves just that much more fun!
A series of very bad decisions had led to a tangled four-yard supplementary warp that otherwise was the perfect fiber, color and size.