Weaving Books & DVD's

Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving, Betty Davenport

Teach yourself how to weave on a rigid heddle loom, with this easy to understand and follow guide. This book covers choosing yarns, setting up your warp, and weaving on a rigid heddle loom. Lots of advice and "how to" as well as weaving projects for all skill levels. If you want to learn how to weave on a rigid heddle loom, then this is THE book for you!

Handwoven Laces

The only book devoted to this family of weave structures! Handwoven Laces has explicit instructions for identifying and understanding the various lace structures, and has in-depth chapters that explain how to use traditional patterns and create original ones. Beginning with the most basic interlacements, master weaver Donna Muller shows you how to develop lace structures in creative, logical ways. Suitable for self-study or class use, this book offers both new and experienced weavers a sense of mastery and a wealth of new ideas. Currently out of print

Navajo Weaving Way, The Path from Fleece to Rug, Noel Bennett,  Tiana Bighorse

One of the best "How to books" on Navajo weaving! Navajo Weaving Way is a compilation of Noël Bennett's earlier books on Navajo rug-weaving traditions, Working with the Wool and Designing with the Wool, both now out of print. This book augments the information in Bennett's out-of-print works with all-new chapters on spinning, carding and dyeing techniques. Illustrations include photographs by John Running of native women carding, spinning, and weaving, along with line drawings depicting specific techniques. Paperbound, 8 x 10, 160 p, 25 black & white photographs, 50 line drawings

Back in Print! Rag Rug Handbook

This popular book is now back in print. Learn the basics of rag rug weaving and more. From historic examples to twenty fun projects, the Rag Rug Handbook is a keeper! Master the art of rag rug weaving and create fun, versatile  rugs for next to nothing! A wealth of information, tips information and how to's will help you create your own unique rag rug. $21.95

The Ashford Book of Weaving for the four Shaft Loom

Learn how to weave with Anne Field! 175 pages packed with informative weaving "how to" weaving patterns and projects, full color, inspirational and informative text. Written specifically for the Ashford four harness table loom, this comprehensive book will be your helpful 'Weaving Teacher" for any kind of four harness loom. It covers planning a warp, pattern drafting, weaving techniques and fourteen innovative projects. New weavers take note!

The Ashford book of Weaving for Knitters

25 Easy Scarf Projects using Fancy Yarns and the Ashford Knitters Loom. Let international weaving teacher and fiber artist Rowena Hart show you how knitters can enjoy weaving. She will show your how to use all the wonderful fancy knitting yarns to produce spectacular woven pieces. This book is the ideal companion for the Ashford knitters loom!

The Ashford Book of Projects for the Eight Shaft Loom

This book contains a variety of weaving techniques from twill variations in the Scandinavian tradition to multi shaft summer-&-winter and modern backed weaves. The new owner of an eight shaft loom and the experienced weaver will both find inspiration and challenges in this collection of placemats, towels, shawls, wall hangings, and suit material. Author Elsa Krogh is a master weaver and teacher living in the north of Denmark. 

The Ashford Book of Textures and Towels for the Four Shaft Loom, Lisa Krogh

Towels are wonderful projects for the loom. You can weave small fingertip towels ore large bath towels, thin dishtowels for the kitchen or bulky towels for the bathroom. They are all useful, and they make excellent gifts. Let Elsa Krogh introduce you to a variety of patterns using a range of techniques.

The Magic of Hand Weaving

Beginners will certainly see their path into the world of weaving clearly, and experienced weavers will find new inspiration in this well-presented weaving textbook. To have a history of global weaving looms and techniques, to have contemporary masters' work presented, to have detailed instructions for simple to complex weaving techniques, and to have a good collections of projects for many different looms, all in one graphical, colorful book... well, it's wonderful.

Tapestry Weaving, A Comprehensive Study Guide, Nancy Harvey

If you follow this guide from beginning to end, you are almost certain to become a proficient tapestry weaver. A step-by-step sampler is laid out; tapestry techniques are carefully sketched and described. Once that sampler is completed, she introduces you to more advanced techniques. Next, is a series of patterns with suggestions and guidance to help you through the weaving of each design. The author also presents a showcase of tapestries by experienced weavers to whet your appetite for what your new skills will let you achieve. Illustrated in black & white and color.

Time to Weave, Jane Patrick

Subtitled "Simply Elegant Projects to Make in Almost No Time". Learn to use non-loom techniques and simple equipment and materials such as plastic sheeting, copper tape, shrink tubing, or granite tiles to create unique objects. Let Jane Patrick show you how to braid, string, knot, use a frame loom, or weave over a pillow form. Learn to create a "sticks and string" coaster, canvas stripe pillow, pocket purse, woven paper cards and a window wall hanging. Choose from beautiful, textured objects like plaited paper baskets, woven lanterns, heart rugs, cork table mats. This one is just for fun! Please note: This is not a "How to weave on a loom book", but a unique approach to creative designing, using simple, easily obtainable materials.

Weavers Companion

Save your brain for being creative. Let this small, sturdy, spiral-bound volume keep track of the weaving details. It's all here: sett and sleying charts, formulas for calculating warp and weft, fiber identification tests, basic weave drafts, finishing techniques, fiber factoids, a must-have gray scale, design shortcuts, and much, much, more! You'll use it 40 times a day. This is the third book in Interweave's best-selling "Companion Series." Spiral-bound, 5 x 7, 112 pages, line drawings and charts. A great reference tool!

Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands

Subtitled: Dreaming Patterns, Weaving Memories by Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez, this book of handwoven fabrics comprise the living history and culture of the Peruvian highlands from Cusco to Machu Picchu and beyond. Fabric patterns with evocative names reflect the landscape and events in vivid color. The weavers who create these fabrics in the time-honored way are keepers of the culture and sustainers of a noble but difficult lifestyle in tune with the earth. They raise llamas and alpacas for fiber, collect plants for natural dyes, spin yarn on primitive spindles, and weave acres of cloth on simple backstrap looms just as their forebears have done for thousands of years. Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands is their guide to quality, understanding, and appreciation. They will learn how pattern names such as Meandering River or Lake with Flowers relate to the geography and history, and how the traditional natural materials and colors enhance the value of the work.

Woven Shibori

Catharine Ellis's breakthrough technique—woven shibori— embraces new approaches to the art of weaving and dyeing. In the traditional shibori technique, stitches are placed into a piece of commercial cloth with a needle, the cloth is compressed, and then dyed. In woven shibori, the “stitches” are supplemental wefts woven directly into the cloth thus becoming a part of the original cloth construction.  The use of the loom to control the placement of these threads has defined a whole new and exciting vocabulary of resist images for weavers, and the integration of cloth construction with surface treatment provides new avenues of expression for textile artists of all skill levels. Woven Shibori includes thorough instruction in a range of weaving applications, from plain weave and twills to laces.

Weaving DVDs

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Rigid Heddle Weaving, Level 1, Betty Davenport

Learn to weave with this comprehensive DVD. Shows warping method especially suitable for rigid heddle looms. Lean how to weave a variety of stripes, and texture weaves as you complete a scarf and a set of placemats. Methods for finishing your woven pieces are presented as well. This course will built a solid foundation for weaving a wide variety of projects. 93 minutes.

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Navajo Weaving, sharing the Technique and Tradition DVD

This comprehensive 3-hour video workshop begins with an introduction to your instructors and personal remarks by Navajo weaver, Angie Walker Maloney. It includes information on tools, yarn and equipment, and a look at several different styles of Navajo looms. You will learn how to spin and ply edging cord, prepare the warp, apply the edging cord and make the heddles. Tips on how to use the loom, create the sheds, and use the tools get you started. As you begin weaving, you will learn the secret of laying in the first row. You will learn how to weave stripes, vertical lines (by interlocking wefts on the same row), squares or blocks, diagonals and diamonds. You can follow along by weaving the design provided, or create one of your own based upon the discussion in "Planning a Rug Design", which includes specific information on weaving a design that reverses at the center of the rug. You will learn many tips and solutions to potential problems throughout the video. And, Angie's method of finishing a rug the Navajo way is magic! All this plus stories, traditions and rugs that will inspire. 231 min.

Tapestry Weaving Level I

Tapestry is a pictorial weaving technique and can be woven on any type of a loom-even a simple self-constructed frame loom, and instructions for making one are included in the video. This course includes technical considerations as well as many tapestry techniques. You will learn how to weave horizontal, vertical, diagonal, circular, vertical curving and horizontal curving shapes, using a variety of tapestry techniques as you complete three projects which can be made into pillows. Finishing & mounting methods are also presented. This course builds a solid foundation for any further tapestry exploration & is a prerequisites for Tapestry Weaving - Level II. If you have not woven before, Introduction to Weaving" is a helpful prerequisite to this course. 110 min.

Rug Weaving DVD

This comprehensive video workshop covers all information needed to weave a successful weft-faced rug. Jason Collingwood teaches you to make a good, durable rug beginning with how to warp the loom. He shows how to create blocks of color using a standard threading and then how to change the placement of blocks to place color and alter the design. This method of manipulating the warp threads allows almost unlimited possibilities for color placement using only a 4-H loom. Along the way he covers beaming for high tension, ensuring neat and durable selvedges, and finishing the fringes. Jason demonstrates on a jack-type floor loom to show you how to adapt any loom to shaft switching. As he takes you from warping to finishing, he shows inspiring examples while explaining the elements of creating and weaving a beautiful rug. 132 min.

Introduction to Weaving DVD

This DVD introduces you to the tools, yarns, vocabulary, projects, types of weaving and equipment that will help you choose a direction that is just right for you. You learn how to calculate & measure yarn quantities needed, and wind your warp using a warping board, an essential ingredient to all weaving, & one you will refer back to often as you continue to explore weaving. This DVD serves as a prerequisite to all other weaving courses for those of you who are new to weaving. 57 min.

Beginning Four Harness Weaving

You begin by measuring the warp on a warping board and then you'll warp the loom from front to back. You will learn how to read a weaving draft (pattern), how to tie-up the loom (direct tie-up), and how to weave a number of different weave structures from the pattern draft that is provided. You will explore plain weave, basket weave, rib weave with one and two colors, several twill combinations and the basics of doubleweave.

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