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Weaving Projects & Articles
Projects on Two or Four Shafts
The rich traditions and diversity of the
weaving community foster a range of special interests. The
following projects and articles are intended to address some
of those interests and to encourage new members to join us. A Note to Beginners (B)
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Fulled Wool Scarves  (465 KB)
Weave dozens of woolly scarves in a wide array of color ways using Harrisville Design’s Shetland yarn. By tying on new warps to the old, Madelyn van der Hoot, show you a great way to create a handwoven gift for everyone on your list!
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Hip
and Handwoven: Sunset Belt
(259 KB)
Welcome to our new online series: Hip and Handwoven—projects
designed and woven by students from fiber departments in colleges and art schools
around the United States. The first Hip and Handwoven project is the Sunset Belt
by Katrina Vogel, a student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The
weave structure this belt is monk's belt, and the cool Classic Elite pattern weft
is a linen/silk variegated novelty yarn.
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Bamboo
for Babies
(597 KB)
by Robin Lynde
Go green with a bevy of woven blocks to make a baby’s
blankets from environmentally-friendly bamboo yarns. A wide range of available
colors are available.
Web-Exclusive Project
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Huck
Goes Green
(542 KB)
by Eileen Hallman
A lovely napkin and placement set in "shadow huck"
uses organic cotton. Web-Exclusive
Project
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A Mix of Mohair and Wool
(180 KB)
(B)
Head to your local knitting shop
and gather up yarns to weave this warm, wooly scarf. It is perfect project for
anyone who wants to explore mixing textured, lofty, and smooth yarns in the warp.
Web-Exclusive Project
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Star Towels
(657 KB)
(B)
by Britt-Marie Lamb
Additional project directions for the towels featured
on pages 28-31 of the September/October 2003 issue of Handwoven.
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Warm those winter chills with a brightly colored
hat and scarf by Barbara Herbster in the Leaves and Berries palette. Web-Exclusive
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Triangular
Shawls on a Regular Floor Loom
(253 KB)
November/December 2005
Love the triangle shape, but lack a
triangular loom? Join two rectangular pieces on the loom by cutting the warp ends
of one and using them as the weft of the other to form a triangle without a seam.
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Turned
Rosepath Dollhouse Rug
(253 KB)
The miniature rug (6 x 10 inches, plus fringe) uses two
rosepath motifs, the rose in the border and the diamonds in the center, with twill
stripes separating them. Web-Exclusive Project |
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Vintage-Inspired
Scarf for Him or Her
(486 KB)
by Wendy Sundquist
Learn to design and weave fabrics in deflected doubleweave
with more blocks than conventional doubleweave can provide, for boldly patterned
cloth with fulling, and for dimensional fabrics with differential shrinkage. |
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