12 Days of Customer Photos – 2025 Blog Post
For over 30 years, we have had the privilege to supply high quality yarns to you in the artisan community. As we ship out each order, it is a bit like sending our children out into the world to become new and interesting creations! And we like to hear from our kids to see what […]
Floating Along – Blog Post
There is often debate at our local guild meeting about whether to use floating selvage threads. The consensus seems to be, like most things these days…it depends! Michele recently wrote a blog about Diane Mortensen and her dislike of floating selvage threads. Katzy has been collecting opinions about floating selvage threads for many years and […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Cynthia Newman
Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight series. This week’s feature comes from Cynthia Newman, a delightful designer who lives and designs in Eastern Oregon. Among many other projects, Cynthia received Master Weaver certification from Handweavers Guild of America in 2018; completed work as a Look Development Textile Designer for the feature film Missing Link (she wove […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Deb Essen
Happy Spring everyone! Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight series. This week’s feature comes from Deb Essen, a name you have surely heard if you have attended Convergence or regional conference. Deb loves to teach! You may also know her amazing kits with prewound warps available on our website. When Deb isn’t travelling the country […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Liz Gipson
Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight! This week’s feature is from Liz Gipson, known better as Yarnworker (aka the Rigid Heddle Queen). Liz has been busy the last few years modernizing the way we learn to weave. She has been offering weave-alongs for nearly a decade, inviting weavers to tackle aspirational projects among a community […]
Warping Vertically! Blog Post
Do you like to wind long warps? Have you ever been ready to take the warp off the warping board only to bend down and discover that you missed a pass on the lower levels of the warping board? Arghhh! Now a few warp threads are shorter than the whole rest of the warp! What […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Madelyn van der Hoogt
Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight Series! Today’s spotlight is from the incredible Madelyn Van der Hoogt. Madelyn has always had the heart of a teacher, and her love of weaving and teaching has taken her on a journey filled with transformations! Since her early days in California, Madelyn has always given back to the […]
A Whole Lot of Counting Going On! – Blog Post
Weavers are always counting. Counting warp ends as we wind our warps. Recounting those warp threads, heddles and dents as we prepare our looms for weaving. And counting as we weave, passing the shuttle from one side to another. Years ago, when we first started stocking the color Coral in our Tubular Spectrum™ line of […]
In Praise of the Floss Threader-Blog Post
As we work in the studio, we often find non-weaving tools helpful in our projects. Michele’s perennial favorite is a dental floss threader. These thin flexible plastic devices were originally designed to assist in using dental floss with orthodontics and dentures and are available wherever you buy dental floss. Each floss threader has a stiff […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Jennifer Moore
Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight Series. What a delight it has been for us to share the personal stories of influential people in the weaving world. This week we are featuring Jennifer Moore. You may have taken a workshop from her at a Convergence or through your guild. Or perhaps with us online via […]