Sprang Lace Patterns by Carol James
Sprang is an ancient textile technique and Carol James is it’s master! This is a self published booklet of Sprang Lace Patterns. The patterns in this book are from motifs that Carol has found in museums across North America and Europe.
Weaving for Beginners- An Illustrated Guide by Peggy Osterkamp 4th Edition
This newly updated “Go-to” guide for beginning weavers is like having a patient, knowledgeable teacher at your side. If you’re a weaver, this step-by-step guide is a must have!
Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom: Discover the Full Potential of the Rigid-Heddle Loom, for Beginners and Beyond
This book by Syne Mitchell covers everything you need to know about weaving on a rigid heddle loom. Starts with the basics — how to select a loom, set it up, and get started — and moves on to a wide variety of fun techniques that yield beautiful results.
Bump Scarf Instructions
Bumps in the Night Scarves are made by combining merino wool and mercerized cotton yarns in both warp and weft! The different shrinkage of these two yarns creates a delightful scarf that has a bumpy 3-dimensional texture.
Tubular Spectrum Towel Instructions
Instructions to make 4 beautiful and functional dishtowels. Finished towels are approximately 17” x 28”. The towels are threaded in a 4-harness rosepath threading, and can be woven in rosepath, twill or plain weave with a white solid weft for striped towels or with the Tubular Spectrum™ colors woven approximately as drawn in for beautiful plaid towels.
Tubular Spectrum Comes to Dinner Instructions
A collection of 8 napkins, woven in 20 colors! A useful way to make a color gamp, or 8 of them!
Not only do you get to see how the 20 Tubular Spectrum™ mercerized cotton yarn colors interact with each other in a color gamp, but you also get to see how very different the colors look with a multitude of woven structures. You warp your loom once, and then by changing the treadling, you can have 8 radically different, yet related napkins.
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Seychelles Scarf Instructions
Dreams of warm sand beaches and cool lagoons will fill your head as you weave and wear these lightweight, naturally colored scarves. These scarves are soft and subtly colored and with just the right amount of drape. Two colors of our own American Maid™ Naturally Colored Cotton and natural white yarn are perfect to make a sophisticated scarf.
Sprang Unsprung by Carol James
An Illustrated Guide to Interlinking, Interlacing and Intertwining.
The companion volume to Fingerweaving Untangled, Sprang Unsprung by Carol James introduces her readers to to the ancient art of free-end interlinking (“unsprung”) and the classic sprang techniques of weaving including interlacing and intertwining.
As flexible as knitting and much quicker, let Sprang be your next yarn challenge!
Introduction to Sprang with Carol James DVD
Sprang is one of the oldest textile techniques. Unlike in weaving, no weft is used. The warps themselves are used for the interlacement! In fact, it is classified as braiding, but still gives wonderfully wide and stretchy cloth – ideal for use in comfortable clothing that allows free motion.
Learning to Weave by Deborah Chandler
Learning to Weave by Deborah Chandler is a classic weaving instruction manual which makes learning to weave, with or without a teacher, easy and fun.
Seaside Towels Instructions
Join us for a stroll along the beach and enjoy the colorful waves in these Seaside towels! We have used the wonderful color palette of the Maurice Brassard unmercerized cotton yarns to dream up the seaside colorways for these soft towels.
RIGID HEDDLE KIT: Instructions to make two plaid towels using a rigid heddle loom: one woven in plain weave, and one woven in a soft pickup pattern. The finished sizes of the towels are approximately 12.5” x 20”.
4 SHAFT KIT: Instructions to make 4 delightful plaid towels: two woven in plain weave, and two woven in rosepath pattern. Includes 4 shaft instructions. The finished sizes of the towels are approximately 18” x 26”.
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