I'd heard horror stories about combing out long fringes after the washing machine got hold of them. I also had a sternly worded suggestion …
Weaving 746.1
100 Yard Warp Part 1: Cone management
Newcomb Studio Art Rug looms shipped with a sectional warp beam that will hold at least 100, if not 200, yards of 8/4 carpet warp. Given …
Raw Selvage
When I bought the 100-yard warp that's now wound onto the Newcomb, I experimented with a 10# bag of short selvage pieces. The saleperson …
Dreaming of domestic colors
A few weeks ago, I started buying bed linens from the various thrift shops I frequent, thinking I would need a greater volume of fabric than …
Late March in Moncure WIP1: Color Sort
When I was finishing the first iteration of the Sunrise colorway, I thought it would be fun to weave a rug in the colors of spring. Around …
Computers and weaving
It didn't take long at all to convince me that I didn't like warping a loom. It took at least four class sessions to get my first warp on …
November
This is an informal image of one of my stock colorways, November, woven in a 2/2 twill hit-or-miss pattern. I picked the name because the …
Warping continues
Reed and heddles fully threaded; warp (a mix of pink and taupe) wound onto the sectional beam at the rear of the loom. This warp is only …
Loom needed
Darn. I was pretty absolutely certain I didn't like warp-faced rugs. I undertook to weave on in my first handweaving class, taught by Jean …
Turning fabric into yarn and weft
Recent changes is my life have knocked the bottom out of the time available for slicing, and I can see a distinct difference in both …
