A few years ago, Nadine Sanders led a group of us in waulking. I learned so much about cloth fulling. We were an enthusiastic group and almost felted that poor piece of wool cloth. I liked the

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This is somewhat similar to what Norman Kennedy had us do after a waulking session (great event--I urge other groups to try it; our guild teamed up with a local folk singing group to sponsor the event

Theo is very nice and very flexible, but also very slow. Of course, in this case, perhaps speed isn't a factor, but I tend to lose interest on something that takes me forever, so I assume others do,

Over the years I have wet finished many yards of fabric and have devised a method for drying that eliminates tedious pressing. After the cloth has been wet finished, I roll it around a large (4-6

Hi Lynne, I do not know if this helps or not, but... When I had a similar problem with my AVL, the cause was a loose cable connection. The cable was not attached to the back of computer securely and

Judy and anyone else, I have done several altar cloth for churches. I have used crackle, overshot, Theo Moorman and twills. They have all worked out very well, depending on the church, the setting,

I would very much appreciate any and all suggestions, ideas and discussion. Thanks for your help. One other totally unrelated question. At the end of the month I will be taking an online quilting

Hi, Deb-- If these "art pieces" are handwoven, how about saying "a short walk to the Hatch Gallery to observe handwoven art pieces..." Two reasons for this change: we need the public to understand

I have the opportunity to participate in an ³Art Salad² guest speaker series at our Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts in April 06. Normally I speak to other weavers. This will be a first talk

Complex Weavers has a Study Group on Ecclesiastical Weaving. For info, go to: http://www.complex-weavers.org/study34.htm And there is a study group devoted just to

BTW: while your playing around on Handweaving.net (looking at crackle drafts), you might also check on the Search page under Search by Original Text. There you'll notice that Kris and his elves have

I second Sigrid's nomination of crackle as a structure to look into. Short floats, great designs. Go to www.handweaving.net, click on Weaving Draft Archive, click on Draft Search, then go to Search

Hi Judy, In the UK we have an online guild for the Weavers Spinners & Dyers, several members of which are in the US and mainland Europe, as well as further flung places. We have a series of workshops

Judy, You should check into CRACKLE as it is a structure just made for designing crosses. It is my first choice for patterns of this type. It is known in Sweden as Jamtlandsvav. Crackle was

Judy, you might begin by asking what you want the cloth to look like from various places in the church. You are the weaver, so you can choose the scale of design (maybe you want to include crosses,

Although I have been a spinner for about 16 years, I am just starting to weave. I have taken a class, woven two items, read Chandler, and attempted to set up the loom that I got with my sheep 17

40/2??) Does that sound OK. I embroidered one for my mother's church and it has to be washed, so you may want to make sure that it is washable and not dry cleaned only. Dry cleaning is expensive and

I have done several clerical pieces. I did several with block weaves and warp painted yarn; one with a advancing twill, again on dyed yarn--a gradation dyed silk warp with black silk; I also did

Hi Everyone, Happy New Year, I hope everyone has a wonderful fibre filled year. My next project is a woven altar cloth for out church's new altar. I have ordered "Weaving for Worship" (which won't