Recreating the Cambridge Diamonds with woad dyed linen and learning to weave cloth on a floor loom
6-20-22 - I still love the pattern, it is so beautiful! But I wasn’t able to fix the mess I made, without making more of a mess. It had worn me out. So I cut it off the loom, I would have only bee...
Have you ever seen weaving and wondered how to get started or wanted to try your hand at it? Well, we have a great treat for you! Jelica of A Pretty Fix and Loom and Fibre (you can see her interview here to find out more about her) has created a wonderful, detailed, beginners tutorial for you on the
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SUPPLEMENTARY WEFT PATTERNS-the tutorial. You may remember these designs from a previous post on supplementary weft patterning. Now I am happy to present the promised tutorial on supplementary weft…
My latest favorite thing has been referred to as many things . . . Needle weaving, teneriffe embroidery, pin weaving, and more. What I’m trying to do is encourage weavers and fiber artists t…
.....the stash of painted warps, that is. Usually I get all that I dye during the summer woven over the winter but I've got some I never had time to get on the loom. This was off the last warp that came off the loom - chartreuse weft. Here's another off that same warp using olive for the weft. There's still one more using forest green for the weft that's not ready for it's photo op yet. Both of these scarves are now up for sale in my etsy shop. And here's the painted warp I wound on the back beam this afternoon, it's a rayon slub, enough for 3 scarves. I haven't decided on weave structure yet, am considering just plain weave, I know hard to believe, but am thinking for this warp/colors it might be best, maybe a bit warp faced plain weave. It was a bugger to wind on as the slubs were sticking to one another, guess that happened during the dyeing and drying. There's one more painted warp, tencel, in the wings to be woven. Then it's time to do some dyeing again.
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Introduction: An hour or two after I put up the last post on mending, I got a phone call from New York. My friend Alice is a retired textile conservator. We were good friends when I lived in the We…
On the origins of Ruth Asawa’s method for creating her suspended wire sculptures. The Myth There is a myth about Ruth Asawa, the Japanese-American sculptor known for her suspended wire forms. The myth says that she went to Mexico in 1947 (or ‘48) and “a local craftsman taught her to weave baskets out of metal
This past weekend I got to participate in the first CHT (Contemporary Handweavers of Texas) Art Camp. It was a great time with other weavers and fiber people who enjoy playing as much as I do. I si…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The journey from flax crop in the field to finished linen cloth (even before washing and bleaching) has many steps. The transformation from a retted sheath of flax, from the field to flax fibres ready for warp-weighted loom weaving is remarkable. We start with scratchy and straw-like and end with floppy and silky. It takes […]
I like playing with color! My husband tells me that I can't have too much yarn. How can I create beautiful designs if I don't have all of the colors of the rainbow to choose from? I love him! So, I am forever adding to my stash. The photo below is of a guitar strap I made a few years back. It was inspired by a yarn bomb discovered in Santa Cruz, CA. Read that story HERE. While it includes all the colors of the rainbow plus a few, they are not in typical rainbow sequence. Once upon a time, I decided to use up small bits of may colors by creating a rainbow using as many shades of each color as I could find in my stash. As it turns out, I put together these 22. Several people, having seen photos of the first one, have asked me to make them a version of it. This one is slightly different. I never want to make any two exactly alike. For the one I just finished this month, here's what the yarn selection looked like when I started. I swapped out a couple of colors after taking the photo. Then, once I started weaving there were two that just seemed too dark. So, I unwove, replaced them and moved the order of a couple of others. It was worth it. Really like this one! It looked amazing on the loom while I was weaving! Here are few other straps which have used some version of the rainbow. The one below with diamonds just sold last month at the Tempe Guitar Show. It was woven in a pickup pattern using the horizontal bar background. One shed was all black and the other shed incorporated red, orange, golden yellow, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue and purple. The below strap was a custom order inspired by an album cover from the band MGMT, called "Electric Feel". It also uses black as the background color with a pickup pattern. This pattern was done on the "Basketweave or Baltic" threading. Below, this strap, also a custom request, used 5 of the 6 colors of the rainbow, but with the 6th, red, being replaced by pink.
Sharp thorn and solid wood needles are handmade from various kinds thorns and wood. Because of their natural origin each needle is one of a kind usable art.
I am so honored to be invited again by the wonderful Agatha from Green Issues by Agy to jump on board her new blogging train: Making Good...
Learn how to design your own passementerie with a simple loom by following these steps.
Nalbinding workshop We teach an ancient technique that predates knitting and crochet. You can make for example following items using nalbinding: socks, mittens, hats, mobile bags, even sweaters and…
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INTRODUCTIONHow many looms is too many? As an owner of a rigid heddle loom, a floor loom, bookmark looms, square frame looms, an 8 shaft table loom, a tapestry loom and circular frame looms I can now add an inkle loom to the growing list of treasured looms that I enjoy weaving on. My first floor loom purchase was made about 6 years ago and on collecting the second hand loom the previous owner was incredibly kind in giving me several books. One of the books was called 'Inkle Weaving' by Helene
Thanks to fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel, most kids know that cotton is spun into thread, and thread is woven into cloth, but most kids these days have never seen a spindle or a loom in action, let alone know how to spin or weave. Most of the looms available in craft stores are the rainbow kind, but if you want to give your child a basic idea of how to weave thread into cloth, all you need is some yarn and a paper plate. We first tried paper plate weaving at St. Fagan's National History Museum in Wales, and I couldn't believe how it kept all 3 of my kids occupied -- they were 11 and 8 at the time, and they hadn't done yarn crafts for years! They wanted to stay in the crafts center and continue weaving, allowing Alfie and me the opportunity to enjoy a romantic walk around St. Fagan's Castle (hey, when you have 3 kids, you take romance whenever you can find it!). The resulting circle is perfect as an American Girl doll rug! Draw 8 lines through the center of a paper plate, dividing it into 16 equal wedges. Cut about 1" off the edge of the plate. Wind yarn through the slits formed by the cuts you made, forming spokes of yarn... ...coming across the back of the paper plate. Starting at the center, weave yarn in and out of the yarn spokes. Once your rug is the desired size, slip off the loops of yarn, cut and tie. Flatten your doll rug. Iron and starch if necessary. Head over to my latest post on Bedtime Math for more detailed, step-by-step instructions (with photos at each step). It's a lot of fun, and it will keep kids of any age busy for hours......
Welcome to a weaving studio where there are no mistakes, you learn , have fun, and create beautiful fiber arts with out ever having to have woven before . My name is Jill Sanders I own SAORI SANTA CRUZ studio in the rural redwood mountains of Santa Cruz county California. This is my 8th year since i opened up my Saori studio. This is Antoinette's scarf fresh off the loom! here is the studio class room early before students show up here is Lily and Gena weaving for the Saori learn to weave in a 2 hour try it class here Lily is trying on my Fall equinox jacket she brought a bag of knitting yarns she wants to use and is using the Glimakra ski shuttle here for your chunky art yarn Lily wanrs to come back to finish weaving for a vest Gena is done. Gena's scarf ! Antoinette 's scarf off the loom I LOVE SAORI! ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` I wove and made a top this summer but i never wore it much so i remde this into a hooded vest! i love the remake it and wear it all the time now! in fact it insopire my student Leigh Anne to come and take a sewing class and make two hooded vests last week! cutting out trying on after it is basted together. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She had such a good time making two vests she came back and made two more simplier vests for gifts! isn't her hand woven Saori fabric amazing? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ remember the my little pony pink sparking yarn I spun last summer ? go click here for my past blog on spinning this yarn well for winter sostice gifts for our granddaughters i wove it on my saori PICCOLO loom the end of a ready made warp i used ever little bit of warp up! i cut it up and sewed pillows ! in the stilness of the longest day of less sun these pillows brightened up my day HAPPY 2017 WINTER SOLSTICE let the sun into your hearts Peace through fibers Jill Nickolene Sanders MY WEB SITE WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM MY ETSY SHOP Classes here
Learning how to weave more than 1 color is a basic tapestry weaving skill. Learn the meet and separate technique for discontinuous weft.
Knots and yarn go hand in hand. Sometimes you don't want them, but here are a few examples of some useful weaving knots that you actually will want!
Knots and yarn go hand in hand. Sometimes you don't want them, but here are a few examples of some useful weaving knots that you actually will want!
様々な太さや種類の毛糸、小石やビーズ、木の枝などを個性豊かに織り上げてみませんか？新しい手芸のかたち《weaving/手織物》。個性的で素敵なインテリアを手作りしましょう。
I love using beads in my weaving. The combination is amazing! I ordered a bunch of beads from my favorite site, TheBeadChest.com and started planning how to use them. Here are the strands I used in this project.
I had a nice surprise almost immediately after completing the last blog: a note from the Bradford College textile workshop to say they’d changed their plans and I could keep weaving my swatch…
My days are filled with weaving. Still in creative doldrums but have decided to use this time in a fractured way by having several tapestry...
Learn to weave your own piece of wonderful wall art with renowned textile artist Natalie Miller.
Hi friends! I have finished my video on how to do the herringbone weave. This video will give you a good idea of how your weft flows over and under the warp threads to create the pattern. I love how these draft patterns look, but I always have to get my mind in the right place
Learn how to solve 10 common problems that weavers face while working on a frame loom. Don't worry- they come with solutions as well!
Learn how to do the basket weave embroidery stitch + learn how to embroider a floral basket using this fun embroidery stitch.
Grey thread seems like such a mundane material - but it is a weaver's best friend! Keep this in your studio for finishing, embellishing, and more.
