Tips & Tricks for Warping Your Loom

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You do not currently have a subscription to Handwoven under this email. Please consider subscribing today Tips & Tricks for Warping Your Loom By: Deb Essen When I first learned to weave, warping my loom made me tense—really tense. But you have to warp to be able to weave, so I put on long warps to avoid warping as often, and then got bored weaving off those long warps. When I decided to complete the Handweavers Guild of America's Certificate of Excellence and faced weaving 40 different samples, I resolved to confront my warping aversion. I began by establishing a routine to make warping easy and fast. I practiced, improved, tweaked, and learned. Now I love to warp my loom! I've discovered that little changes can have a big impact on my enjoyment of each aspect of weaving. Here are some tips I've found that will make your warping faster, easier, and more enjoyable. Continue reading. Traditions: Marli Ehrman By: Joan Cotter + Barry Cotter Take a look at the placemat fabric shown above. What is it that you notice? Perhaps the subtle, shiny wefts of Lurex? What about its asymmetrical block design? Does the word "architectural" come to mind? Such discussions would have pleased Marli Ehrman, the designer and original weaver of this mass-produced placemat. Before you can understand the story of Marli Ehrman, though, you need to understand the Bauhaus and its history in Germany and America. Modernist architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus industrial design school in 1919. The Bauhaus (which loosely translates as construction shop) was born in the aftermath of World War I. Germany was in upheaval, and Gropius and others saw an opportunity for general renewal through art in a time of cultural crisis. Continue reading.

Add to Your Weaving Lexicon with Loom Theory: Eight-Shaft Shawl Collection 2019 By: Susan E. Horton As a weaver, I feel like I am always on the prowl for new patterns, drafts, and color combinations to add to my weaving lexicon. My weaving sensors are on, no matter where I am. I'll stare at the back of a man's suit coat in an elevator trying to figure out whether it is a 4-shaft or 8-shaft twill, spend hours on Pinterest and other websites looking for inspiration, browse weaving and art books for ideas, and take pictures of patterns and colors I see in ordinary life, just because. I will admit to taking photographs of the front of public bathroom doors for more than a year while I was planning a project based on the female symbol you see on them. If you see yourself in the paragraph above, excluding perhaps the part about photographing bathroom doors, I think you will be interested in the new Loom Theory: Eight-Shaft Shawl Collection 2019. Just as we have done for the other Loom Theory collections, we asked designers whose work we love to weave beautiful shawls using special yarns. And they delivered. Continue reading or browse the lookbook.

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