By Lloyd Pollack
I have been physically weaving on and off, in and out, for close to fifty years. In my head, I have always been a weaver. My interest started as many things do, by lucky accident, as my marriage was just starting the early 1970s. My wife decided to take a YMCA tapestry weaving c...
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Weaving
I have a basket where all my yarn scraps go. In it is everything from silk to wool; hand-dyed, hand-spun, commercial; every color of the rainbow. The pile just keeps getting bigger because I never know what to do with scraps.
I am sure many of you have the same problem, and so today we are launc...
Weaving a piece with hand-painted silk ribbon on a Mirrix loom.
I am not what you would consider a math wiz. I went out of my way in college to take a logic class to fulfill my math credits and even the "liberal arts-esque" statistics class I was forced to take in graduate school was enough to cause sleepless nights. I am infinitely more comfortable with word...
Warp tension, as every tapestry or bead weaver knows, is one of the most important factors in any weaving. Both the amount of tension and the evenness of tension is important and the difference between good tension and bad tension can make or break a piece. A few weeks ago a customer emailed me a...