Several months ago, a fiber-artist friend told me she'd worked with recycled t shirt factory scrap from TS Designs, in Burlington, NC. I …
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Storing rag rug fiber in vacuum bags
Stash is the glory and the bane of the productive fiber artist. There's never enough stash on hand, and there's even less room to keep it …
Making My Own Bobbin Winder for Weaving Shuttles
I had a grand time at the Carolina FiberFest last weekend, held annually at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. Wandering around booths …
Color Selection for a New Rug
As I've been slicing fabric for weaving, I've processed a lot of fabric in the "November" color story, which is mostly men's clothing, and …
Working on stash
I am still developing the process I follow to turn old clothes into rugs and wall hangings. When I first started processing fiber for …
Sun on sheets
Color. Nothing but color. (And a Chihuahua.) Not sure how anyone slept on these, but it sure is fine to sit and inhale the color as …
Washing Fringed Rugs
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 …
A new color story
People who see my rugs in a show sometimes ask where I get my ideas for colors. "Everywhere." Simply everywhere. Admittedly, I read (or …
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 …
Where did my ergo cutter go?
My routine is to do an hour of prep work in my studio, slicing incoming fabric, assembling colors for a new rug, sewing up bottom and sleeve …
