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Problem-Solving Napkins

This free napkin pattern for subscribers might help you with a few of your own issues!

Ask Madelyn: Correlating Warp Color Orders and Drafts

Sometimes the relationship between the warp color order and the weaving draft isn't obvious and you have to read them carefully to understand their connection. Madelyn explains how.

Handwoven May/June 2023: Mud-Free Weaving!

We’ve all woven mud, those unlucky combinations of close values in warp and weft. You won’t find that problem in this issue of Handwoven.

A Tale of Twill

Madelyn van der Hoogt hated twills when she started weaving. But the introduction of colored publications in the 80s gave her a new love of twill weaving!

Least Optimal to Most Optimal

Sometimes, but not always, you can turn a weaving disaster into a weaving success.

Innovate with Deflected Doubleweave!

I was expecting heavy weaving “stuff,” but instead I was amazed by Janney’s seemingly unlimited desire to explore DDW’s possibilities.

4-Shaft Twills on a Rigid-Heddle Loom

Learning about how twills can be woven on a rigid-heddle loom has given me a deeper understanding of twills in general.

Ask Madelyn: Overshot Tabby Order

Any two picks in a row of overshot pattern in the same block will either cuddle together at the outside edge of a motif or split a bit apart.

4 Free Handwoven Baby Blanket Patterns

Download this free eBook with 4 patterns for handwoven baby blankets.

Call for Submissions: Handwoven March/April 2024—Flights of Fancy

Our spring issue will be all about the birds and the bees (PG only!) ... or depending on how you interpret it, anything else that flies, including time and your imagination!