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As I have explored the world of spinning, I heard it mentioned from several sources that the great thing about weaving with your handspun yarn is that you don’t have to ply it. This is an interesting statement. It implies using the singles for both warp and weft, which is contrary to what all the…
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Double-faced weave is a method of weaving that produces 2-toned images with a color-switched version on the reverse. This method is often used for belt favors, heraldic images, and text. Threading For double-face weave, you use (2) colors per card. Each card will have (2) threads of each color in adjacent spots. To illustrate: Above…
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Project presented in Queen’s Prize Tourney 2022. In tablet weaving, you can spend a considerable amount of time setting up your weaving. It can be extremely frustrating to spend all that time preparing only to discover that what you wanted to do isn’t going to work. The reasons things don’t work are many, from picking…
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A response to the pouch challenge issued by Lord Auðin Hrafnsson in 2021. The Hedeby (or Haithabu) bag is a style of frame handled bag based on extent remains found in a trading settlement in Schleswig-Holstein known as Haithabu (in German), or Hedeby (in Danish/Swedish). Hedeby was the second largest Nordic city during the Viking…