Weaving Books from Pacific Wool and Fiber

Renowned fiber artist Sara Lamb offers inspiration and project planning for her signature hand-manipulated techniques. Lamb leads weavers through the steps of making exquisite bags using folk weaving techniques that evoke modern ideas in brilliant colors and textures. A technique section of 6 folk weaving tutorials, such as hand-manipulating weaving techniques with a multi-technique sampler that gives basic instructions for soumak, twining, cut pile, cardweaving and more! Sidebars sprinkled throughout the book include the history of folk weaving techniques, as well as Lamb's signature beaded and stitched embellishment designs.

NEW! The Journal

For Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers - Peter Collingwood Special Edition

Get this one! Reprints of Peter Collingwood’s most memorable articles from the Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. The Journal is complete with Jason Collingwood’s memories of his father and Interview with Peter Collingwood on ply-split braiding.

NEW! Mastering Weave Structures

Transforming Great Ideas into Cloth. What a great book if you want to delve deeper into weaving. A Must Have! This book is as crisp and clean as a damask tablecloth, as deep as a 16 harness waffle-weave towel, as durable as a 24 harness figured twill, as contemporary as a computer generated network weave. Not specifically a book of pattern weaves or a beginning weavers how-to reference, it is much more. Simply put Mastering Weave Structures is a textbook on the weave structures available to harness-loom weavers. What a difference Sharon Alderman's weaving and teaching experience make in presenting to the serious weaver this life long reference work on woven structure design. The traditional patterns are developed here, but with the purpose of making them available to the weaver to develop just the right structure for the material and purpose of their projects. We don't say this about all the books we see, but Mastering Weave Structures is a classic reference and textbook.

NEW! Weaving Made Easy!

Weaving Made Easy is the beginning weavers’ ultimate guide to making fun, simple, and functional weaving projects from start to finish. Weaving Made Easy features seventeen simple projects made on the rigid heddle loom, a small, portable, and affordable weaving loom. Weaving Made Easy includes a step-by-step guide on getting started weaving; weaving vocab. 101, tools and materials explained, the basics of warp and weft, and how to start weaving. Weaving Made Easy offers clear instructions for how to make various practical fabrics, from drapy to sturdy scarves and bags to belts, placemats, rugs, and more.

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Best of Weaver's: Overshot is Hot!

With more than 30 of the best overshot projects compiled from 20 years of Weaver's magazine and Prairie Wool Companion, this weaver’s reference combines step-by-step instructions with weaving theory. Best of Weaver's Overshot is Hot features such projects as heirloom linens, traditional coverlets, and colorful modern applications for scarves, table toppers, and wall hangings are presented, covering everything a crafter needs to know to design fabulous fabrics in Overshot is Hot and its cousin star-and-diamond weave. Both beginners and advanced weavers working on at least four-shaft looms will delight in the projects provided.

Projects for 4 to 16 harnesses. Learn block double weave, stitched double cloth, double layered color effect, double wide weaving and more! The Magic of Doubleweave explores the amazing feats that can be done by weaving two layers of fabric on the loom--the technique that weavers know as double weave. This collection of beautiful handwoven projects in double weave everything you need to know to: design and weave two layers of cloth, stitch two layers together for backed or two-faced fabrics, connect two layers at one edge for a fabric double the width of the loom, create block designs by exchanging differently colored layers The Magic of Doubleweave uses overshot patterns as the basis for double-weave designs, and create dimensional, decorated fabrics by stuffing pockets, embellishing surfaces, cutting layers, and more.

Best of Weaver's: Thick N Thin

This is the second book in the Best of Weaver's series by Madelyn van der Hoogt (the first is Huck Lace). It contains a dazzling collection of serendipitous surprises that have come as answers to the weaver's favorite question: "What if?" Use Best of Weaver's Thick N Thin as a teaching tool that will surprise you! Over thirty projects give complete and easy to follow instructions of weaving drapable fabrics for a multitude of uses: clothing, rugs, blankets, kitchen towels, table linens, scarves and more. Thick N Thin covers block designs, network drafting, warp rep, and double weave.

The Big Book of Weaving

Subtitled: Handweaving in the Swedish Tradition: Techniques, Patterns, Designs, and Materials. Now fully modernized and available for the first time in the English language! The Big Book of Weaving is appropriate for beginners, study groups and experienced weavers alike, this world-renowned reference book provides all you need to know about hand weaving in the Swedish tradition. The Big Book of Weaving contains hundreds of templates, charts and drawings so clear you understand the steps before you read the text, this is a must-have guide for aspiring weavers. The Big Book of Weaving a keeper! 267 pages.

Creative Weaving

Subtitled Beautiful Fabrics with a simple loom. Color, Color, Color is the strong point of this book! Get inspired by these fun colorful woven combinations. Creative Weaving is a colorful guide, featuring 30 spectacular colored fabric designs. Follow a thorough tutorial in the basics, complete with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations that lay out how to work with a rigid heddle loom. Then try a variety of weaving styles, from traditional to playful, from subtle variations in color to bold experiments with form. Work with traditional fibers or play with unusual materials such as recycled fabrics, feathers, foil, and even plastic bags. Creative Weaving also offers a gallery showcases how 12 weaves can be transformed into functional objects, including throws, cushions, shawls, and scarves. Also available from the series: Creative Spinning and creative Felting!

This popular book is now back in print. Learn the basics of rag rug weaving and more. From historic examples to twenty fun projects, the Rag Rug Handbook is a keeper! Master the art of rag rug weaving and create fun, versatile rugs for next to nothing! A wealth of information, tips information and how to's will help you create your own unique rag rug. $21.95

Favorite Rag Rugs

Pretty rugs galore! Learn how to recycle old sheets, jeans and more and weave fun, useful rugs at the same time with Favorite Rag Rugs! Creating rag rugs has enthralled weavers for over a century. Now you too can recycle your favorite fabrics and transform them into unique rugs that will bring a very personal touch to every room in your home. Favorite Rag Rugs features six technique-based sections with 45 designs by20 professional weavers as well as charts, illustrations and color photos of finished projects.

Teach yourself how to weave on a rigid heddle loom, with this easy to understand and follow guide. Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving covers choosing yarns, setting up your warp, and weaving on a rigid heddle loom. Lots of advice and "how to" as well as weaving projects for all skill levels.

Learning to Weave, Revised Edition, Deborah Chandler

More than 40,000 weaver have used this unparalleled study guide to learn from scratch or hone their skills. All of the basics are covered: understanding the tools of weaving, making a good warp three ways, reading and designing drafts, and understanding weave structures. We don't know of a better weaving text to teach yourself how to weave on a 4 harness table or floor loom. Softcover, 8 1/2 x 11, 232 pages, color photographs and black and white illustrations throughout.

Navajo Weaving Way, The Path from Fleece to Rug, Noel Bennett, Tiana Bighorse

One of the best "How to books" on Navajo weaving! Navajo Weaving Way is a compilation of Noël Bennett's earlier books on Navajo rug-weaving traditions, Working with the Wool and Designing with the Wool, both now out of print. This book augments the information in Bennett's out-of-print works with all-new chapters on spinning, carding and dyeing techniques. Illustrations include photographs by John Running of native women carding, spinning, and weaving, along with line drawings depicting specific techniques. Paperbound, 8 x 10, 160 p, 25 black & white photographs, 50 line drawings

The Ashford Book of Weaving for the four Shaft Loom

Learn how to weave with Anne Field! 175 pages packed with informative weaving "how to" weaving patterns and projects, full color, inspirational and informative text. Written specifically for the Ashford four harness table loom, this comprehensive book will be your helpful 'Weaving Teacher" for any kind of four harness loom. It covers planning a warp, pattern drafting, weaving techniques and fourteen innovative projects. New weavers take note!

the ashford book of weaving for knitters

25 Easy Scarf Projects using Fancy Yarns and the Ashford Knitters Loom. Let international weaving teacher and fiber artist Rowena Hart show you how knitters can enjoy weaving. She will show your how to use all the wonderful fancy knitting yarns to produce spectacular woven pieces. For all rigid heddle looms

This book contains a variety of weaving techniques from twill variations in the Scandinavian tradition to multi shaft summer-&-winter and modern backed weaves. The new owner of an eight shaft loom and the experienced weaver will both find inspiration and challenges in this collection of placemats, towels, shawls, wall hangings, and suit material. Author Elsa Krogh is a master weaver and teacher living in the north of Denmark.

Check out these 24 Fashion garments woven on the Ashford Knitters Loom. Weave beautiful fabrics and create your own garments. With your Ashford Knitters or other Rigid Heddle looms we will show you how to make fabulous jackets, skirts, capes, hats, ponchos, waistcoats, sweaters and scarves. Thirty-two, full color pages with easy and inspirational projects for you, your family and friends.

Towels are wonderful projects for the loom. You can weave small fingertip towels ore large bath towels, thin dishtowels for the kitchen or bulky towels for the bathroom. They are all useful, and they make excellent gifts. Let Elsa Krogh introduce you to a variety of patterns using a range of techniques.

The Handweaver's Pattern Directory

This weaving compendium is destined to become the next reference tool on every weaver’s bookshelf! The Handweaver’s Pattern Directory is a full-color practical guide to weave structures for 4-shaft looms that features drafts for 600 weaves including twill, zigzag, diamond, herringbone, block drafts, and specialized techniques. Each structure includes a color photograph, threading and treadling sequences, and degree of difficulty. Readers will find sections on tools and equipment, types of fibers and yarns, weaving basics, finishing techniques, ideas to encourage experimentation with different yarns, looms, and colors, and a full glossary of international weaving terminology. The Handweaver's Pattern Directory is divided into five sections for clarity: straight draft, point draft, block weaves, lace weaves, and specialized techniques. Individual samples are shown actual size or bigger from the front view, with a detail showing the reverse view where this is of particular interest. For purposes of comparison and pattern clarity, for each two-page unit of samples, the same color thread is often used for warp or weft. Extended samples (gamps) use different threading drafts and thread color combinations to increase the range of options available to the weaver. The Handweaver's Pattern Directory is a must have for the serious weaver!

Learn to weave with this well written book for beginning weavers. Several projects will allow you to learn as you weave, building on your newly acquired knowledge. Included overview of looms, tools, drafting and terminology. Great introductory weaving book. 143 pages

Even if the bright, primary colors in this book are not your favorite decorating style, the clear how-to instructions of Tapestry Weaving give you confidence to interpret the techniques into your own preferred designs. Basic methods are demonstrated through large, color photographs. All the tapestries in this book were woven on simple, rectangular frames, and you can even adapt an old picture frame for this purpose, and use rug yarn for the weft. (A valuable hint to someone who wants to try the skill before investing a lot of money in a loom.) From a solitary heart to circles, simple landscapes then progress on to a labyrinth and incredibly detailed side-woven panels. Tapestry Weaving offers a wealth of knowledge on the subject of weaving.

Subtitled "Simply Elegant Projects to Make in Almost No Time". Learn to use non-loom techniques and simple equipment and materials such as plastic sheeting, copper tape, shrink tubing, or granite tiles to create unique objects. Let Jane Patrick show you how to braid, string, knot, use a frame loom, or weave over a pillow form. Learn to create a "sticks and string" coaster, canvas stripe pillow, pocket purse, woven paper cards and a window wall hanging. Choose from beautiful, textured objects like plaited paper baskets, woven lanterns, heart rugs, cork table mats. This one is just for fun! Please note: This is not a "How to weave on a loom book", but a unique approach to creative designing, using simple, easily obtainable materials.

Weavers Companion

What a great compact reference book! Let this sturdy, spiral-bound volume keep track of the weaving details. It's all here: sett and sleying charts, formulas for calculating warp and weft, fiber identification tests, basic weave drafts, finishing techniques, fiber factoids, a must-have gray scale, design shortcuts, and much, much, more! You'll use it 40 times a day. This is the third book in Interweave's best-selling "Companion Series." Spiral-bound, 5 x 7, 112 pages, line drawings and charts. A great reference tool!

Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands

Subtitled :Dreaming Patterns, Weaving Memories by Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez, this book of handwoven fabrics comprise the living history and culture of the Peruvian highlands from Cusco to Machu Picchu and beyond. Fabric patterns with evocative names reflect the landscape and events in vivid color. The weavers who create these fabrics in the time-honored way are keepers of the culture and sustainers of a noble but difficult lifestyle in tune with the earth. They raise llamas and alpacas for fiber, collect plants for natural dyes, spin yarn on primitive spindles, and weave acres of cloth on simple backstrap looms just as their forebears have done for thousands of years. They weave clothing, rugs, bedcovers, potato sacks, hunting slings, and sacrificial fabrics – for themselves and their villages, and for sale to supplement their meager incomes. Travellers visiting the area (hundreds of thousands a year from North America alone) are drawn to this authentic, well-crafted work and given the opportunity to collect it at every street corner and rail stop. Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands is their guide to quality, understanding, and appreciation. They will learn how pattern names such as Meandering River or Lake with Flowers relate to the geography and history, and how the traditional natural materials and colors enhance the value of the work.

Catharine Ellis's breakthrough technique—woven shibori— embraces new approaches to the art of weaving and dyeing. In the traditional shibori technique, stitches are placed into a piece of commercial cloth with a needle, the cloth is compressed, and then dyed. In woven shibori, the “stitches” are supplemental wefts woven directly into the cloth thus becoming a part of the original cloth construction. The use of the loom to control the placement of these threads has defined a whole new and exciting vocabulary of resist images for weavers, and the integration of cloth construction with surface treatment provides new avenues of expression for textile artists of all skill levels. Woven Shibori includes thorough instruction in a range of weaving applications, from plain weave and twills to laces.