Weave Free or Die • Madelyn van der Hoogt DDW Workshop in NH

I just spent a fantastic three days in Concord, New Hampshire taking a deflected double weave workshop with the illustrious Madelyn van der Hoogt.  The workshop was a great experience across the board.  It was in downtown Concord, NH (near

I got a 6-yard warp off the loom today.  It was a mix of 10/2 hemp in natural and white with a end of 10/2 linen every 8th thread.  It was threaded in an 8-shaft straight draw, and I ended

Yesterday I took a woods walk with the dogs and was astonished by the number and variety of fungi to behold.  Sorry, but I had my phone and I had to document.

I have been intending to make myself some clothes using hand-woven fabric for a while, but a couple of issues have stalled me. One was my disappointment in my ability to fit myself when I made my coat (it is

Hey Strangers, I am back home and have had two (moderately) uninterrupted days for hands-on fiber wrangling. Oh Joy! (This is what I imagine the cat sees as the aftermath of his fantasy crime - dog massacre - because we left him and

So, above are the ingredients for making our looms.  Nice right?  2" x 4"s and c-clamps - weaving doesn't always involve piles of cash. Here is our fearless leader Ute Bargmann (tablet weaver since she was a youth in Bavaria), who

Drat!  The bad news is "Broken" washed into a nice (but not too interesting) alternating-tilted-boxes diagonal pattern, completely losing the interlocking square motif I was so excited about. But . . . the good news is that I quickly put on

It is true that certain cautions have been aimed at me that might explain a tendency I have to be at the mercy of happenstance . . . ."Be careful not to be adrift on the sea of life" "If

I have to report that NEWS 2013 was fantastic.  From start to finish I was amazed and delighted at the spirit, talent and humor of the Trustees, faculty and participants.  I taught a class in Deflected Doubleweave from Fri-Sun.  I

Neglecting my blog has become the norm lately and IT HAS GOT TO STOP!  So I have an interesting "towel tale" to tell.  This is both an interesting (to us weird weavers) weaving story and a happy reintroduction of me

I know . . . old pics, but if you will notice I have been tweaking a bit to finish up before the Faculty Show at NEWS. I hemstitched the selvedge edges and removed about 12 ends on each side

I feel terrible that my blog has gone unattended for so long.  When I logged on today, there were over 100 spam(s)? to be removed.  It sort of feels like an untended garden. The weeds have taken over and the