How to weave a textured wall hanging

How to weave a textured wall hanging 

Frame loom weaving Part 1: How to weave a textured wall hanging  Want to make your first steps into weaving but no idea where to start? Frame looms are one of the best starting points for a complete novice, as they are inexpensive and very simple to use.  That said, don’t think they are only…

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Summer and Winter weaving right away

“Summer and Winter” weaving right away

The weaving technique I want to explain this month is called “Summer and Winter”. I stumbled upon it while searching for possibilities to weave bold, graphic blocks of all kind – my obsession. If you read for example my post about Halvdräll you know how much I’m in love with block designs and always exploring…

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Discovery of the month – Halvdräll

A new catégorie for my blog: Discovery of the month! Want to present once per month something I found around weaving that aroused my curiosity: that could be a new technique, a designer or a single piece. This month I decided to show off a weaving technique I explored in February and that has become…

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Modern Tapestry – Between art and craft

Fascination Tapestry Today I want to explore the fascinating world of tapestry weaving! Like many fibre arts, tapestry still has the reputation of being dusty, old-fashioned and has-been.I must admit I thought the same only two years ago…Until I discovered at the first one, then two and then a whole new world of stunning tapestry artists…

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Krokbragd - My favourite 7 patterns

Krokbragd- My favourite 7 patterns

In order to complet my last blog post about Krokbragdweaving, I’ll show you today my favourite 7 Krokbragd patterns. I thought that this could help in two ways: You can start more easily right away Perhaps you can pick up some new ideas or inspirations Obviously I can’t give an exhaustive pattern guide. As I…

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Krokbragdweaving right away

For today’s post we travel to the other side of the globe: Scandinavia! To discover another of my favourite weaving structures: Krokbragd! Little history before going “in medias res”:  While Saoriweaving was my favourite technique to weave on a rigged heddle loom in the beginning of my “weaving career”, the reason I start learning to…

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All about: Sockyarn spinning

  Want to start to spinning  your own handspun sockyarn? But not quiet sure how to begin and which fibre to use? I had the same problem sometime ago and started to read everything I could find about this theme and to make some experiments. Perhaps my little compilation of what I found out could…

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Inspirations – Textile Artist Mary Buttons

Want to start a series of articles about inspirations and inspirational artistes that make my heart sing. The first one in this series is an American textile artist, Mary Clarke Edwards. Her artiste name is Mary Buttons and she’s a Knitter, Weaver and Bagmaker. And the reason why I started to weave myself!

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Marsa Alam – Simultanous set-in-sleeve construction

Finished this weekend my second Marsa Alam by Isabell Kraemer. I’m addicted with everything stripy and this little cardigan is perfect. Love everything about. It’s knit from the top down, more on the fitted side, narrow stripes, rounded neck and especially the technique for the set-in sleeves is my favourite one so far.