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How do you determine sett for boundweave, a weft-faced weave?
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.
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.
Handwoven March/April 2017 celebrates Scandinavian weaving. Our designers combined hygge with beauty and style. We can’t decide if the issue offers an American take on Scandinavian weaving or a Scandinavian twist on American we
When life is busy and if you’ve only got time to weave on the weekend, you may prefer something that doesn’t take too much concentration. For those times, look for something you can easily warp that doesn’t have too many color changes.
For this edition of Why We Love we’re focusing on something we at Handwoven couldn’t live without: our designers. We wouldn’t exist without their willingness to share their talents and their projects with the world.