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Shadow Weave Incognito Towels

By breaking with tradition, Barbara Goudsmit designed a shadow-weave design ... without shadows. This is a free download of her 4-shaft towel pattern for All Access members.

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Handwoven Towels: Common Sizes and Types

From guest towels to beach towels, you can weave towels in any dimensions you wish, but it's helpful to know some basic sizes. For subscribers, I've also included three towel patterns to jumpstart your next project.

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Bonus Pattern: Rosebud Bricks Fingertip Towels

Why stop at just 5 towels? Download this PDF and weave 5 more towels designed by Malynda Allen to coordinate with her Rosebud Trellis Fingertip Towels from Handwoven March/April 2023.

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Layers of Air Scarf—It’s Magical!

Download this PDF of Janney Simpson’s 8-shaft deflected doubleweave scarf with shifting layers, pockets, and connections.

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A Pair of Ruanas to Make Your Own

Imitation is a form of flattery, and in weaving it pops up all the time.

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Fantasy Twill Scarf for 4-Shaft Weavers!

Download this PDF of Nancy Peck’s scarf pattern written for 4-shaft looms.

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Cowls and Circular Shawls to Weave

The 8 projects in this collection are circular, but they are much more than that.

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From Samples to Project in One Go

Reading Yarn Labs is a quick way to learn about a yarn without sampling yourself. In this PDF download, we have paired a wonderful Yarn Lab with a project by the same designer.

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Best Practices: Interpreting Drafts and Series Download

Where do you turn when you have weaving questions? This collection of articles will answer most, if not all, of your questions!

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Coping with Harness Envy: Reducing Multi-shaft Drafts to 4-shafts

It's frustrating to love an 8-shaft pattern when you only have a 4-shaft loom. In this article from March/April 2018, Madelyn describes how to reduce 8-shaft twill drafts to 4-shafts. We tried her methods on some recent drafts, check out our results!