Hi Everyone - Don't post much but read everything that comes through. Thank to all the amazing weavers out there. Here is my question - I love to weave bookmarks. Somewhere I saw a technique to pull i

Hi all, I loathe moving heddles, and have drawn a draft with 8 shafts where I will either need to move heddles (yuck) or spread the draft over multiple shafts. I have 24 shafts to work with, but Weave

In September I will be traveling to Italy with my husband. We are on a tour but will have some time to roam and I'm looking for weaving or fiber activities or sources that you know about. The tour sta

Anyone know of a good contact email for the head of seminars. I registered and now cannot attend. Trying to get a refund and wrote to the Treasurer who said she would forward request, wrote again and

Hi all, I hope this is not outside the scope of this group. My husband and I are going to be in the Vancouver/Seattle area for a week in late May-early June. I'm looking for fiber- related things to d

I finally got the Mesdan knotter that I ordered from Onrion about three months ago. This is made in Italy. It is a model W/158 and is supposed to knot threads from 12/2 to 4/4. It does 8/2 very nicely

Although my FDL Mechanical Dobby has worked fine for years, now the pins for shaft 2 through 8 sometimes fall between the actuator paddles rather than on them. Sometimes the pin finds the blank space

Hi Deb and Sigrid, I hope you are both well and that the grandchildren - and great grandchild!! - are thriving!! I'm giving a presentation at Complex Weavers Seminars this summer on woven optical illu

Rayon from bamboo is no different than from any other cellulose. It’s is against Federal Textile Regs to label fibers as “bamboo”. They have gone after other large retailers in the past with massive f

There’s an interesting photo of a cloth designed by Marianne Straub and analysed in Mary Kirby’s book Designing on the Loom, 1955 (p.70). However the threading she gives on the opposite page makes no

Is it possible to buy fine ramie yarn for weaving anywhere these days? I have been reading about casement fabric woven in the 1950s with ramie. See link and photo for an example of a casment woven by

Hoping I can sell a maple 6 treddle wolf pup LT . It is practically brand new . I think I have done 2 or 3 warps on it. It’s super sweet. I just have too many looms and need to pare down . Email for p

If you are interested in this topic and missed the Zoom offering, here is the link to the FB recording (1:26 in length): https://www.facebook.com/littleloomhouseofficial/videos/ Here is a link to a Ma

From a NorCal friend Weaving, spinning, design, history and more. Louise https://aeon.co/videos/unravelling-the-surprisingly-epic-story-of-the-worlds-oldest-pair-of-trousers?utm

I wondered if there is a name in common use for this particular weave structure?

I was just reading a book by Nancy Arthur Hoskins called Universal Stitches. Several of the techniques require weft threads to be cut away, does anyone know how to keep these from unraveling or becomi

There are two exhibitions on view now that might be of interest to handweavers. Ada K. Dietz Algebraic Expressions in Handwoven Textiles with the Cross County Weavers is on view at the Little Loomhous

There were some newer guidelines (2015) about adding weights. I gave you some older guidelines (sorry). Toika suggeste 5 lbs total weight, not 13 lbs. Meg P. Begin forwarded message: From: Mpg5803 <mp

I have a 32 shaft Toika loom. I’ve done several rep projects on it. The most ambitious was a rug that is 9 ft long by 59” wide I don’t remember all of the details, but it wasn’t difficult enough to de

Has anyone woven rep with its tight sett on a Toika computer assist loom? If so, what was their experience? Claudia