I’m trying to work on my selvedges. I’ve heard that you can get better, stronger selvedges by setting the warp threads denser at the selvedge edges.
I’ve noticed that weavers also have a unique way of greeting each other. It usually starts with the “weaver’s handshake."
I have a question about cotton shrinking. When I use handwoven kitchen towels, usually 8/2 cotton, they seem to keep shrinking every time they are washed.
Yarn counts cause great confusion even when they are used consistently—and in the case of weaving, they are not.
The overall goal in sleying a reed with more than one end in a dent to achieve a particular sett is to make the sleying order as even overall as possible.
Is there an easy way to convert metric reeds in order to follow project instructions that give the setts in the number of ends per inch?
When is it too late to start using a temple? Madelyn explains to a reader how to salvage her much-too-drawn-in selvedges!
Weaving silk is absolutely a wonderful experience—perhaps the only thing better is wearing silk.
Turn the overshot draft so a section of the overshot pattern became two supplemental warp stripes running the length of the scarf.
The Knotty Macramé scarf from Handwoven May/June 2017 is a beautiful color-and-weave silk scarf finished with a fancy macramé fringe. Learn how the designers achieved their fancy fringe with these instructions.