All weave structures come with their own set of rules and characteristics. As weavers/designers, it is our job to understand those rules and identify their characteristics while we learn to bring our ideas into our own unique cloth. In Season 6 you’ll be designing your own projects from profiles ...

There are so many possibilities on one warp if we know how to play with the tie-up box. I know some of you hate getting underneath your loom to change your tie-up. But...when you think about how long that really takes...like maybe 1/2 an hour...and, if your warp is long enough, you can get so man...

Welcome back to another fun episode. These placemats were a blast to weave. I tried all kinds of things....bringing design ideas forward, always doing the overlay thing. I created solid weft lines by not treadling a tabby between pattern picks which made that area weft-faced because the weft just...

Finally.....we are getting to Overshot, the first weave structure I fell in love with way back in 1979. Everyone was weaving overshot in the '70's....."Keep Me Warm One Night" by Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham was hot off the press, filled with wonderful drafts and inspiring history of ...

What is Name Drafting?

Well, basically you assign a harness on your loom to a letter in the alphabet, then you take words that have meaning to you, a name, a piece of poetry, a Haiku..... assign the letters in the word to the harnesses on your loom. Tweak it a tad to follow the rules of overshot...

Welcome back to S6 E6 where we take a good look at Crackle Weave. Crackle is quite amazing because it allows for very twilly graphics but it can also produce incredibly blocky designs. Our show and tell has some stunning examples of the diversity that can be found in this structure, from drapey s...

This month, we look at another traditional weave structure and learn about its massive potential in the contemporary weaving world. Again, I thank the weavers who have gone before and left us with such a bounty of thread arrangement on the 4 shaft loom. Each structure provides us with a lifetime ...

We have looked at so many powerful structures in the past few years, it is mind-boggling to consider just how much is possible on the 4 shaft loom by just moving threads around and playing with repetitive sequences....after all that is what tabby, float, tabby, float is....a repetitive sequence. ...

I hope you're hungry because you're going to be full by the end of this episode. You may want to eat it in small bits....that's always better for your blood sugar, so they say! I did this type of work for years in Bronson Lace, it was so much fun. I'll never forget the day I learned how to do th...

Here we are at the end of another jam-packed season. When I look back at all we've learned this year I need to lie down and have a nap 🤣. I'm sure you do too. There was a lot of theory to take in but the best thing about the School of Weaving is that it is always there to review again and again ...