More Samples

More samples this week as I work through ‘Exploring Multi-shaft Design’. I think I find weaving samples quite relaxing. There are no expectations of the final piece, it doesn’t have to be functional , and the colour choices can be a bit wild! First, another fancy twill, designed by repeating small shapes diagonally in the […]

Exploring Multi-shaft Design

In the next few posts I’ll be working my way through Bonnie Inouye’s book ‘Exploring Multishaft Design’. I bought a PDF version from Bonnie via her website. I put a sample warp on the loom 12 inches wide, with a straight threading as instructed. The aim of the first few chapters is to change one […]

Weaving on a 32-shaft loom

I think there are several ways to approach weaving on a 32-shaft loom, like my Megado. You can scale things up from eight shafts, and have many more blocks of a structure like summer and winter to design with, or you can investigate techniques like network drafting which seem to produce better results with more […]

My Weaving Life

I started weaving eight or nine years ago, when I went with my partner to Halsway Manor in Somerset for the weekend. He was teaching Northumbrian Pipes, and I was going for an Introduction to Weaving with Janet Phillips in Nether Stowey, just over the hill from Halsway. By the end of the weekend I […]