Yarn


What a Weaver Can Learn From a Spinner

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.

Ask Madelyn: Crossed Threads

If warp ends cross at the back beam, is it a problem?

Ask Madelyn: Tufted Chenille

A reader has questions about caring for their handwoven tufted chenille cloth.

Yarn Requirements

Download this article that shows how to calculate yardages for weaving projects.

Fulled wool scarves

Download these instructions for weaving plaited twill wool scarves. Included are instructions for tying a new warp onto an previous one.

A Weaver's Guide to Yarn

Download this two page guide to common yarns useful to weavers.

Free Rag Weaving Tutorial

Want to try your hand at weaving with rags. Download this free pdf and get started on one of the three projects.

Creative Weaving on a Rigid-Heddle Loom

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!

The Season for Handwoven Scarves

While there's no wrong season for handwoven scarves, something about winter makes weaving scarves just that much more fun!

Weaving Long Enough to Know Better

A series of very bad decisions had led to a tangled four-yard supplementary warp that otherwise was the perfect fiber, color and size.