Spin & Explore: How to Weave with Simple Looms
You don't need a store-bought loom to get started weaving something spectacular, learn how you can create beautiful cloth on homemade looms.
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You don't need a store-bought loom to get started weaving something spectacular, learn how you can create beautiful cloth on homemade looms.
Want to avoid giving someone two skeins of yarn and telling the recipient it will be a scarf . . . one day? Here are our tips for gift planning.
Season 7, Episode 3: With her playful approach to life and textiles, Sarah Swett discovers her passions for nature and fiber, time and again.
Season 8, Episode 4: From her self-taught origins as a textile artist, Sarah Neubert is helping weavers do better—in their weavings, their use of resources, and their well-being.
I enjoyed having a plan in mind for my inkle bands as I wove them, and I find that’s often the case in weaving; an end purpose makes it more fun and interesting.
Season 6, Episode 6: Admiring the traditional bandweaving of her native Sweden, Kerstin Neumüller took her love of weaving a step further and learned to carve small, sweet rigid heddles.
Season 6, Episode 2: In 2016, Emily Nicolaides began exploring the possibilities and limitations of circular weaving. Combining years of research, her book Amazing Circular Weaving opens up a new world of richness, beauty, and complexity.
I became a much happier rigid-heddle weaver when I borrowed a tool from floor loom weavers: a boat shuttle and bobbin. Here's how to wind one well.
To use a softer yarn for warp, I turned to an old technique: applying a coating to minimize the effects of abrasion.
In honor of Earth Day, learn how to dye cloth using nothing but leaves and boiling water--no mordant required!
Sara Bixler has been one of our cherished contributors for a while, and there are very good reasons for that.
Mud dyeing is simple, safe, and fun regardless what age you are.