Jan 16, 2024 | Inspiration, Ideas, Techniques
Tubular double weave is normally woven into one continuing tube, but narrow horizontal tube sections can also be weaved into the same warp. In the table looms, this can be easily done with four shafts, but in the floor looms it takes four shafts and eight treadles....
Dec 5, 2023 | Inspiration, Ideas
SPARKLE table runners When you have yarns in your hands that make you sigh with delight, let them bask in the admiring glances of a finished woven fabric as well.Strong, interestingly textured, or smooth shiny yarns are at their best when they don’t have to compete...
Dec 2, 2023 | Inspiration, Ideas
CHRISTMAS CAROL table runner Three different colour threads are always in the same order in the threading, but it varies on which shaft they settle. Dark lilac, dark red and bright red threads rise up and lower down in the threading draft as tunes of melodies in a...
Nov 4, 2023 | Inspiration, Ideas
It would be nice to hear the stories of old rag rugs. When I see an old rug, I would like to ask it who wove you, when, and where. Did the weaver plan the colors and cut the strips in the light of a summer evening or in the winter dusk? Often, all that remains is the...
