it should come as no surprise that some weavers have taken their love of music and turned it into cloth. Here’s Nancy Dunlap on her connection to music, weaving, and her Symphony No. 1 in Rep Minor (aka rep weave rug).
I found Tracy Kaestner’s approach to designing her Silk Blouse in a Wash of Color intriguing, and the resulting blouse spectacular. Using a colorful picture of a Guatemalan cemetery, she chose colors that emulated its colorful yet ethereal feeling and u
You might think that the inspiration for wonderful weaving pieces comes from things that are grand, like the Bolshoi or the Grand Canyon, but in my experience, great weaving designs also come from everyday objects as is the case with these towels.
I warp from front to back. I have found that no matter what I do, my warp ends are at different lengths once they are threaded through the heddles. If I have a fairly wide warp, I usually wind more than one chain.
What is the proper way to deal with changing weft color? Does one break and restart or carry the yarn up the edges?
I’m looking at some wool yarn on eBay. They give the weight of the mystery yarn as 12 wraps per inch. I’ve asked the owner if they know how many yards per pound it is, but they don’t know. Can you point me in the right direction?
I am weaving a chenille afghan and using a temple to keep my edges straight. The afghan is 56” wide on loom, and I wanted the finished width to be about 50”. My question is what width should I set the temple to?
There is a whole other world of color theory I wish more people would talk about, and that is color preference. I believe there must be interesting cultural differences in our color preferences depending on who we are, what we do, the language we speak, a
What is the sweet spot, and how often should you be advancing the warp so you're always weaving in it? Madelyn shares her keys to weaving in the sweet spot.
