One of the earliest things I learned about weaving is that the practice, as a whole, has a truly wonderful vocabulary. We warp the loom, sley the reed, and mess about with heddles and treadles.
Tom Knisely has a new beginning weaving video. Learn how to weave on a loom with useful weaving techniques and a fun beginner weaving project!
How do you determine sett for boundweave, a weft-faced weave?
Madelyn helps a weaver find good resources for warping her sectional warp beam.
Corrected treadling for a figure in "The Draft: Tied Overshot" where the treadling and drawdown did not match. Get the corrected figure here.
Patterning in half dukagång is usually done with pick-up rather than with loom-controlled blocks, but structurally it is the same as a version of summer and winter in which only one tie-down shaft is raised throughout.
The Fibonacci Sequence can be a great aid in designing handwovens.
Here’s how to shop at sheep and wool festivals when you want to bring home goodies.
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.