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…

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…

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…

Weaving without a loom- Bento Bag

Today the third post of my little series about weaving adventures! (First one with general explications here, second one about weaving without a loom here). I use the book Weaving within the reach as an inspiration to try out different techniques – this week I made a last experiment to weave without a loom.

Riggid Heddle Loom- plain weave

Weaving – with or without a loom

I want to start a little series of postings about different weaving techniques. In the first place about different looms – or even about weaving without a loom at all. I discovered recently a book: Weaving within the reach, that really fascinates me. It shows so many possibilities to make beautiful weavings without or with…