Handwoven

Each issue offers a stunning collection of enticing weaving projects. But the magazine is more than that: it's a pattern book, and weave structure textbook, it's a place to discover original designs, and find solutions to weaving challenges. For over 20 years Handwoven has been an indispensable resource for weavers.

FROM THE EDITOR

FUTURE THEMES

Handwoven

Letters • Stories, tips, tricks, and questions from Handwoven readers

Nevan Carling • When Nevan Carling looks at an old loom, he sees a miniature house, a microcosm reflecting the development of building traditions. Carling is a timber framer and carpenter who prefers traditional methods and hand tools.

3-D Hand Loom Weaving: Sculptural Tools and Techniques • Sally Eyring

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World • Virginia Postrel

Keeping Records • Come January first, my New Year’s resolutions are to keep better records and sample more. There is a far better chance that I will keep to these resolutions than my usual ones of losing weight and getting more exercise. I know many of you reading this save files on your computer. You save weaving drafts with pertinent information on thread, thread sizes, and amounts required to weave a given project, along with WIFs of all the treadling variations. I admire you all, but I am just an old-fashioned guy. I need to hold a woven sample in my hand to look at along with the draft and actual snippets of the yarns used to weave the sample. Observing how other weavers keep records of their weaving shamed me and made me realize that this doesn’t have to be a difficult task. I just need to get better organized and develop a system that will work well for me.

Favorite Finds • Tools and equipment for your studio and fun weaving-related accessories for your wardrobe

The Adopt-A-Native-Elder Navajo Rug Show & Sale: Supporting Indigenous Weavers for 32 Years • The story of the Adopt-A-Native-Elder program and the annual Navajo Rug Show & Sale is a story of love for Navajo weavings and the Navajo elders who weave them.

Best Practices • For 50 years, the Yarn Barn of Kansas has offered beginning weaving classes. Our teachers have seen just about every challenge a beginning weaver might meet. What better way to share this knowledge than with a yearlong series of articles on good weaving techniques in Handwoven magazine? In this series, we’ ll explain various methods to make the process of weaving simple and rewarding, beginning with warping techniques. For simplicity, we have focused on warping front to back, but many of the tips apply to other types of warping.

Double Knit to Doubleweave • While looking through Jennifer Moore’s Doubleweave: Revised and Expanded, I became fascinated by doubleweave pick-up, especially by how Jennifer used it to make circles. The design reminded me of Lucy Neatby’s double-knitting pattern Bubbles Scarf (see Resources). I set myself the challenge of transforming Lucy’s scarf into doubleweave. Before starting, I emailed Lucy and asked permission to use her design and received a prompt positive response.

Sawtooth Stripe Pillows

Shadow Play Kitchen Towels

Take Your Turn

Reflecting Pool Bed Runner

Honeycomb Throw

Blue Circling Embers

Bumple Scarf

Clouds of Alpaca Scarf

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Hashtag Deflected Doubleweave

O’ So Beautiful Scarf

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Cool Breeze

Inspired by Sashiko • I suspect that all of us who have stashes of yarn, fabric, pieces of old lace, or ribbons are motivated on occasion to go into our collections with the aim of giving one or more items a new lease...