Liz I kept trying not to write this post. It started as blurb in the newsletter about acquiring the rights to Handwoven Home and releasing a new digital edition, but then I kept thinking about the wonders of publishing and ran out of room to wax poetic. I’m still not sure this subject is post worthy, …
There are a lot of coulds in my weaving world. As in, I could weave this or that on my rigid-heddle loom—my loom of choice, my muse, my creative constraint, my teaching tool, my thing. (I’m very annoyed that em-dashes are now a sign of AI written text because I use them a lot, perhaps …
Crafting content for weavers who, like me, weave on a rigid-heddle loom provides endless avenues for exploration. The weave-alongs are often an extension of my own weaving practice or perhaps my practice is a result of crafting content for a living. Who can say which drives which. Over the past year, I’ve done a lot …
After a two year hiatus, the public weave-alongs are back. On February 14, we kicked off a clasped warp and weft table set in twill or plain weave project bonanza in our new home YarnworkerU. The name is both a nod to educational spaces and a play on words regarding the personal nature of weaving. …
I haven’t felt very bloggish lately. Perhaps it is the nature of school’s out for summer feelings. Now that I’m heading back into the classroom, I’m feeling the pull, although I can’t for the life of me think of what to say. Although there are things happening here at Yarnworker central, none of it seems …
There has been some chat in the Yarnworker Patreon community about how to visualize what happens when you lift or lower heddles or engage pick-up stick and heddle rods when using multiple heddles. Because of the all-in-one nature of the magical rigid-heddle that determines sett as well as the order of the ends, the yarns …
I was drawn to the rigid-heddle world because it didn’t have as much formality surrounding it as the shaft-loom world. It seems like this was a loom full of pure potential. Most of the creations were based on how to manipulate the threads regardless of their named interlacements. To me this is more freeing. I …
There is a saying that life is short, but the days and nights are long. How is it that we can feel like some days will never end, but in a blink of an eye we are rolling into a new season, a new year, a new decade? Time, and how we spend it, is …
Three heddles provide a way to translate structures requiring 4 threading positions, or 4 shafts to the rigid-heddle loom. Essentially, a draft is telling you what kind of sheds you need and in what order to weave them. Sheds are created by the threading order and how you lift or lower the warp ends to …
When you first learn to thread two heddles, chances are you learned the standard threading first. This threading can be organized in many different ways to create the conditions for lots of weave structures: plain weave, Hopsack, lace, twill, doubleweave, and Summer and Winter. This setup gives you the ability to manage independently, or in …
