Weaving

Hello Weavers, I decided to write a post about linen after overhearing a group of weavers admiring a set of linen napkins, but agreeing with each other that linen is too scary to work with. Iq want to firmly respond

Hello Weavers I have just emerged from planning/teaching a couple of classes that have given me a lot of food for thought. As many of you know, in-class time is a very small (but critical:) part of everything that goes into

I have been thinking about "beat" quite a bit lately, and I wanted to share some of my (swirling and contradictory) thoughts and recent experiences. My natural reaction (as a skeptic and contrarian) to the hand-weaving community's obsession with "squaring

  Hello Weavers I hope your holiday season is shaping up to be relaxing and filled with good will and kindness. I am happily anticipating the arrival of kiddos with their partners and pets, and am trying to check off as many

Hi weavers - I am working on a new pattern for a series of swellegant pillow covers in twill, and serendipitously, while working on the "twillow" pattern, I have been reviewing Becky Ashenden's video series in which she recreates her

If you are a hand weaver, and you have jumped into the river of winding, beaming, threading, sleying, tying on and tying up in order to swim to the shore of  cloth, then I cannot imagine that the notion of

I have to confess that the inspiration for this post may be a little self serving, but I have been wrestling with the idea of errors lately. This is mostly due to the humiliating necessity of sending out corrections (often

I recently read a IG post by a super accomplished and voluble young weaver lamenting the loss of emphasis on technique in the teaching of weaving in the US. It is implied that this loss of emphasis has been in

I wanted to write a short post to say thanks. There are so many things I am thankful for that it would be a pretty long and tedious post if I listed them all. Of course,  you - my weaving