I love silk. To me, it's the perfect fiber. It's lustrous and strong, with delicious drape. It is warm, but not overly so. It's not fussy to warp or weave, and it dyes beautifully, either with acid dyes or with fiber-reactive dyes and soda ash.
When I put on a long warp I try to choose drafts that let me play with tie-up, treadling, weft color, and even sett to create many different designs and projects all on the same warp.
Yarn is both the weaver's best friend and our sometimes enemy. When we use it correctly and play nice, together we can create just about anything our hearts desire. When we use the wrong yarn or when we mistreat our yarns, bad things can happen.
Laura Fry will give you the confidence you need to wet-finish without worry.
Honeycomb is not a specific weave structure but a term we use to describe a cloth in which some threads wiggle around others to make wavy shapes
It is a known fact that handwoven towels are important in the cooking of holiday meals.
This E-book will help you branch out in your color choices and make strides in your color use in weaving.
If there had been a place in the pottery class, Christina might not be weaving today!
