The Best (and Worst) Ways to Weight Floating Selvedges

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You do not currently have a subscription to Handwoven under this email. Please consider subscribing today The Best (and Worst) Ways to Weight Floating Selvedges By: Christina Garton Throughout my 10 years or so of weaving I've used many items to weight my floating selvedges and/or broken warp ends. Some have worked beautifully and some not so much. Here, in my opinion, is where they stand from least to most useful Binder Clip Clipped to Something Heavy-ish For this first method, I tied the floating selvedges around the handle of a large binder clip and then clipped it to something with a bit of heft, I'm not sure exactly what. It didn't matter, of course, because this worked terribly. This method came from me not being able to find my normal floating selvedge weights and just grabbing random items from my basket of weaving stuff. The handle of the clip was so thin that undoing the knot tied around it when I needed to move the weight took far longer than finding a halfway decent weight from the start. 2/10 Continue reading.

And Then There's That - Weaving Follies By: Susan Horton When I was much younger, I had friend named Nick who used the expression "And then there's that" with precision. We'd be planning something extremely fun when someone would insert a dose of reality, and Nick would chime in "And then there's that," essentially taking the air out of the room and making everyone laugh. Many years later, I believe the expression was created with weaving in mind: You plan a perfect project and pick the ideal weft to go with a handpainted warp, only to find out when you try to order the yarn that the colorway you picked has been discontinued. And then there's that. Back to the drawing board. Your napkins will be so great. You only used yarns from your stash, so in your head they are somehow free while making room in your stash for new, fun yarn. You put on a long warp and you are weaving napkin number 7 when you run out of weft. And then there's that. Another cone of the same cotton lands in your stash and the napkins no longer seem free. Continue reading. We Can't Weave Well Enough Alone By: Linda Ligon Linda Ligon wrote this poem and read it during the Schacht Spindle Company's 50th anniversary celebration in September 2019. We hope you love it as much as we do. For Barry Schacht and Jane Patrick, on the 50th Anniversary of Schacht Spindle Company It was 1969, and I was yearning to weave. I don't know why.  My fractured life—mother of two, student, teacher, wife, neurotic—  I just wanted to weave. Thinking that would somehow make things whole. Continue reading.

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