Navajo Rug Designs by Susan Lowell
Not a 'How-To' book. . . legend, history, and some good photographs for weavers looking for 'inspiration' photos.
64 pages, hardcover
Guide to Navajo Weavings by Kent McManis & Robert Jeffries
A Manual of Fingerweaving by Robert A Austin
Fingerweaving is one of those ancient textile techniques many of us experience as youth in scouts or camp. It is a techniques familiar from native American textile crafts.
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Fingerweaving Untangled: An Illustrated Beginner's Guide Including Detailed Patterns and Common Mistakes. By Carol James
In an easy to understand format, Carol James has demystified the fascinating art of finger weaving, particularly that of the traditional sash.
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Fingerweaving by Gerald L Findley
The two beautiful Osage women’s belts pictured on this cover represent a type of textile production that has been practiced by Native Americans for centuries.
Tatted Easter Eggs by Kirsten Wind Hansen
Twenty-four flat, medallion style, Easter egg. . . some with beads. . . tatting patterns. Each is fully illustrated (diagramed) and is presented in a photograph too.
Tatted Butterflies by Adelheid Dangela
Twenty butterfly tatting patterns, photographed and with illustrated (diagramed) instructions.
Flitting Fingers: Tatting in the Nineteenth Century, by Virginia Mescher
This book is a history of tatting in the nineteenth century. Virginia has referenced over 60 different books and magazines from the 1800’s. Some of the chapters include; Early tatting history, tatting tools and materials, tatting needles, uses for tatting, patterns from the nineteenth century, patents for tatting.
Tatting from Burda
Translated from German by Etha Schuette: An extensive section on technique makes learning easy with each project explained by graphic representation, written instructions & color photographs.
Tatting: Artistry in Thread, by Helma Siepmann
With the emphasis on creativity the author has revolutionized the craft of tatting, freeing it from its geometric roots and offering the artist a new tool for expression with thread.
Softcover, 108 pages
Tatting, by Bernadette Baldelli
Built around different themes, the step-by-step, illustrated and abbreviated instructions cater for all levels form the absolute beginner to the highly skilled tatter.
Tartan: The Highland Habit by Hugh Cheape
The author takes the story of tartan from the medieval love of display to the Victorian invention of exclusive clan identity. Highland history is vividly illustrated and described in an exciting and entertaining way.
A full-color section on individual clan tartans, with historical information on each clan, enables you to find your own tartan and learn about your family history.
No thread counts but pictures that are clear enough for you to use a small magnifying glass and do a thread count. Softcover, 112 pages, 6" x 7½"
Teach Yourself Visually: Handspinning, by Judith MacKenzie McCuin
A modern approach to teaching an ancient art that’ s reviving rapidly
The unprecedented popularity of knitting and crocheting is spurring great interest in handspinning (making yarn from raw fiber using a spinning wheel or hand spindle). Unlike other references, this book has a refreshing, contemporary visual design. With step-by-step instructions and photos, it covers the necessary tools and materials, preparing fiber for spinning, plying and dyeing yarns, working with fibers other than wool, using handspun yarns, and more. Because spinning wheels are expensive, it begins by teaching readers how to use a hand spindle to make yarn. With today’ s emphasis on things that are handmade and natural, this book fills a great niche.
FELT STYLE: 35 Fashionable Accessories to Create and Wear, by Chrissie Day
Felting is an exiting and inspiring craft that lets you turn loose wool fibers and simple knitting into stylish, fashionable felted items. 'Felt Style' is packed with 35 projects on clothing and accessories that you'll love making and adore wearing. From elegant bags to cozy slippers, contemporary jewelry to stylish scarves, these attractive, soft-textured felt projects are bursting with rich color and modern appeal.
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HANDMADE FELT BOOK
Another wonderfully illustrated Japanese felting book. Text is Japanese but with the numerous step-by-step photographs and illustrations, you really dont need words. Plenty of bags, hats, book covers, tea cozies, coasters, and so much more. Techeniques include both wet felting and needle felting. 88 pages, softcover.
FAST FUN & EASY NEEDLE FELTING: 8 Techniques & Projects—Creative Results in Minutes, by Lynne Farris
Creative Wool Accents are the Latest Way to Play!
FELTMAKING and WOOL MAGIC: Contemporary Techniques and Beautiful Projects, by Jorie Johnson
After studying textile design in both the USA and Finland, author Jorie Johnson was introduced to the felt making process in 1977 when she was first taught Scandinavian felt boot-making. She was immediately struck by felt’s amazing properties and possibilities. Through this book, Felt Making and Wool Magic, you will see that Jorie’s approach to felt making is clearly creative as well as effective. The book covers in detail, basic step by step felt making techniques, then goes on to present a series of projects from simple jewelry to beautiful vests.
Felt Frenzy: 26 Projects for all Forms of FELTING, by Heather Brack and Shannon Okey
This is not your ordinary felting book! Felt Frenzy explores all the major techniques of felt making, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needlefelting, and “recycled felting”—turning salvaged wool sweaters into useful felt pieces—plus ways to combine techniques for creative and unique results.
Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, Felt Frenzy is packed with 26 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations so readers can easily customize patterns with substitutions of their choice.
Handspinner's Handbook, by Bette Hochberg
Here's a very clear, practical manual on spinning all types of fibers on a "flax" wheel. All aspects of spinning are considered and the "long draw" method emphasized, parts and care of the wheel are discussed, breeds of sheep, other natural animal and vegetable fibers, man-made fibers, carding, drum carding, blending fibers, plying, skeining, and stumbling blocks are covered. The presentation is easy to follow.
The Yarn Book, by Penny Walsh
Yarn is the basic unit of textile construction and every fabric, except felt is made with it. The properties of yarn — its ply, tensility, strength, weight, elasticity, and resistance to heat, water, shrinkage — are what give each yarn its unique characteristics. By manipulating these properties, an astonishing array of fabric types can be produced, creating any number of textures and appearances. By focusing on these varieties, Penny Walsh is able to closely examine the composition and construction of different yarns and explore their many uses.
Spin to Knit, by Shannon Okey
Do you want to knit with something other than commercial yarns? Dare to be different — become a full-fledged fiber fanatic with Spin to Knit, the essential guide for knitters wanting to learn to make their own yarn! Urban spinner Shannon Okey, author if KnitGrrl, teaches the basic tools you need to get started spinning. . .
Contemporary Tapestry by Harriet Tidball
Shaped Tapestry by Kathe Todd-Hooker
This book is filled with information about weaving tapestries "outside-the-box." By this we mean, non-rectangular tapestries. Such tapestries can be shaped and lie flat on the wall or they can be 3-dimensional. There are many ways to weave a non-rectangular tapestry: shaping the loom itself, using weave structures that cause the weaving to become shaped, and using scaffolds and other devices to hold areas of warp that are then manipulated into 3-dimensional shapes when the weaving is finished. Naturally, these types of processes require some special finishing techniques, and this book covers those as well. If you wan a truly creative approach to this centuries old medium, this is the book for you.
Line in Tapestry by Kathe Todd-Hooker
Tapestry Weaving by Kirsten Glasbrook
Even if the modernistic samples and bright, primary colors in this book are not your favorite decorating style, the clear how-to instructions give you confidence to interpret the techniques into your own preferred designs. Basic methods are demonstrated through large, color photographs. All the tapestries in this book were woven on simple, rectangular frames, and you can even adapt an old picture frame for this purpose, and use rug yarn for the weft. (A valuable hint to someone who wants to try the skill before investing a lot of money in a loom.) From a solitary heart to circles, simple landscapes then progress on to a labyrinth and incredibly detailed side-woven panels. This book is a wealth of knowledge on the subject of weaving.
MAKING FACES: Using Wet and Dry Felting Methods by Patricia Spark.
The felting needle is a great aid to the hand feltmaker. By combining this tool with traditional felting techniques, you can greatly increase the creative potential of this medium. The needle has small notches along its edges which push fiber along to intermix with the fiber lying below it. Thus, the fibers are tangled together creating felt, without the need for soap or water! With the needle you can be very precise, attaching small amounts of fiber just where you'dlike them to be. Three-dimensional shapes can easily be added to a surface, increasing the potential for sculptural form. The possibilities are endless.
'2nd Edition' WATERCOLOR FELT WORKBOOK: A Guide to Making Pictorial Felts . . . by Patricia Spark.
This workbook is intended to help you learn the technique developed by Pat Spark, called "Watercolor Felt". Ms. Spark calls her method by this name because she uses concepts from painting, and applies those concepts to feltmaking. The result is felts that are visually similar to watercolors, but which are totally made of dyed fiber.
ASHFORD BOOK OF CARDING: A Handspinners Guide to Fibre Preparation, by Jo Reeve
This is a practical and inspirational guide to carding fleece, slivers and exotic fibres. Written for the hand spinner and felter, and everyone who loves fibre.
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Woven Shibori by Catharine Ellis
Catharine Ellis's breakthrough technique—woven shibori—embraces new approaches to the art of weaving and dyeing.
Best of Weaver's: The Magic of Double Weave edited by Madelyn van der Hoogt
"Double Weave" is the fifth in the series of Best of Weaver's books: collections of treasured articles from almost twenty inspiring years of Weaver's magazine and Prairie Wool Companion. This volume explores the amazing feats that can be done by weaving two layers of fabric on a loom—the technique that weavers know as double weave.
A Handbook of Weaves by G. H. Oelsner
Weaving a Navajo Blanket by Gladys A Reichard
Best of Weaver's: Twill Thrills
Many new four-shaft weavers are familiar with plain-old twill, blue jean twill, sturdy cloth for garments and furnishings. But now-a-days new weavers and advancing weavers have access to multi-shaft looms, some even powered by computers. This has opened up the realm of old straight twill into a 'bonkers' world of op-art twills.
Norwegian Tapestry Weaving by Maria Brekke Koppen, translated by Christine Spangler
Norwegian tapestry technique relies upon dovetail joins along a vertical line. Unlike continental tapestry there are no slits that need to be closed by sewing.
This is a wonderful book – full of very clear diagrams and pictures.
HAND FELTED JEWELRY AND BEADS: 25 Artful Designs by Carol Huber Cypher
Felt-bead jewelry is fashionable! It’s showing up on runways, specialty stores, and galleries around the globe. Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads offers a contemporary and artistic approach to this popular craft—and then takes it a step beyond through beaded embellishment.
FABULOUS FELT HATS: Dazzling Designs from Handmade Felt by Chad Alice Hagen
Chad Alice Hagen has been a part of the world of handmade felt for over twenty years. Her hand-felted wool has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of the Mint Museum of Art + Design and The Minneapolis Institute of Art. Chad’s time is divided between teaching feltmaking internationally, producing a production line of felt wearables, and creating large felt artworks for corporate and private collections. She lives and works in Asheville, North Carolina.
SIMPLY FELT: 20 Easy and Elegant Designs in Wool by Margaret Docherty and Jayne Emerson
Natural, tough, and beautiful—felt is an extraordinary textile. Using natural woolen fibers hand-rubbed with water, you can create a durable, versatile fabric for making a wonderful collection of garments and home accessories. Best of all, felt never frays. Authors Margaret Docherty, an expert felt maker and teacher, and Jayne Emerson, a textile designer, have teamed up to present the fundamentals of felting: choosing fibers and colors, making flat felt and boiling felt, and stitching felt. They also cover the more advanced process of inlaying other fibers to vary felt design and texture. The felting techniques are demonstrated with 20 beautiful projects in a range of contemporary colors; projects include a cozy cloche hat, a charming child's jacket, warm slippers, delicate scarves, square and inlayed throw pillows, and an exquisite, long-lasting rug. Each project is presented with simple, step-by-step instructions and illustrations, and offers alternative samples and suggestions that help you to create your own designs. Now you can bring the highly sought-after handcrafted style of felt into your wardrobe and home décor-this book promises to make it simple, and oh, so beautiful.
128 pages, softcover
Featherweight Felt: Making Felt Scarves with Sharon Costello
Step-by-step instructions for creating 6 lightweight felt scarves using a variety of fibers and innovative techniques. Detailed instruction in full color — 163 minutes worth!
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Color, 163 minutes
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SHEARING DAY: Sheep Handling, Wool Science, and Shearing with Blades by Kevin Ford
Some books come along that just can't be introduced fully in few words. Getting that fleece correctly off all those sheep so the wool is ready, the sheep safe, and the sheerer doesn't have to depend on electrical connections, is an ancient task. The author presents us with a thorough study of this endeavor that is also a good story of his experience in this world of sheep shearing. Spinners and wool handlers will not find this information any where as well presented. Many photos of the how's and why.
Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools: Collected Works of the Save the Sheep Project, edited by Deborah Robson
Spin-Off Magazine presents a gallery of the work of spinners who consciously use the wool and support the growing of rare sheep breeds. Looking at the beautiful color gallery of finished pieces, ranging from socks to Navajo rugs isn't the same as feeling them, but all the detailed information about each piece and the accompanying essays make this a valuable reference and inspiration for serious spinners.
In Sheep's Clothing: A Handspinner's Guide To Wool by Nola Fournier and Jane Fournier
So you've been spinning awhile and a variety of breed's fleece are available. Which one will suit your needs? What are it's properties besides the obvious ones? How should you prepare your choice for your project? This new handbook clarifies through photos, specs, and suggestions for many breeds from three classifications of sheep breeds: fine wools, long wools, down wools, and miscellaneous crosses. Each classification has a quick reference guide for each of its breeds. This reference book will inform your fleece selection and fine tune your spinning so you get what you expect.
Projects for Alpaca and Llama edited by Crris Switzer.
Crochet (scarf & tam, toy 'paca bear), Felting (pin, vest), Knitting (baby booties, child's cap, doll, hat & cowl, mittens, socks), Knititng-Felting (mittens), Locker Hooking (pillow), Machine Knitting (ear-warmer), Weaving (belt, blanket, pillow, scarf, shawl, sweater-vest, vest)
60 pages, softcover, 8.5" x 11"
Spinning Llama and Alpaca by Chris Switzer.
"Everything you might ever want to know about spinning the wool from the popular Andean camelid, but couldn't find the best book for", would describe this new book. All kinds of camelid raising lore, wool handling facts, spinning hints, including dyeing, abound here. Along with all the photos and illustrations, there are even some actual samples of wool and yarn.
50 pages, softcover, 8.5" x 11"
SPIN SPAN SPUN by Bette Hochberg.
This delightful book is accurately reflected by its subtitle. It contains page after page of historical, biblical, fictional, mythological, and biological references to spinners, spinning, wool, cotton, flax, spinning wheels and spinning. While the book will not make you a better spinner, it will give you a lot of enjoyable reading.
HANDSPINDLES by Bette Hochberg.
Handspindles have been in use for at least 6,000 years. There are many different types and styles and ways of using them. Bette Hochberg gives a good background on spindles and spindle spinning. She discusses ten of the most common varieties of spindles, how they were used, and what types of fibers would have been spun on them. Good information.
FIBRE FACTS by Bette Hochberg.
A fact-filled spinners and weavers guide to natural and synthetic fibers and yarns. How they behave; choosing and using them; finishing and caring for them. How their properties affect quality, appearance, and performance of textiles.
Understanding the Spinning Wheel by Eric Corran.
This very important book has a split personality. Is it a technical manual for woodworkers on the most minute details of spinning wheel construction? Is it a complete history of the modern spinning wheel? Is it an advanced spinners' manual for the more proficient use and maintenance of their various wheels? The center of this manual is the vast amount of information collected over the past 35 years by the author, who is a retired engineer and woodworker. In his hands, this information becomes the most thorough exposition of the development of the modern wheel, the variations on the flyer. The book has charts, tables, illustrations, and photos of the most important developments in spinning wheel design over the past 500 years. Complete working drawings are here for woodworkers. Complete discussions of how the various parts of the wheel have developed are here for anthropologists. Complete know-how for spinners to use in refining their skills is here. This is definitely the book for understanding the spinning wheel.
ESSENTIALS OF HANDSPINNING by Mabel Ross.
This book has a great amount of material in its 40 pages that's not easy to find elsewhere. Among other things, the author shows you how to produce handspun yarn in the same sizes as commercial yarn. That allows your handspun to be used with ordinary knitting patterns. The book ends with a chart of spinning faults and remedies.
40 pages, softcover, 5.75" x 8.25"
HIGH WHORLING by Pricilla A. Gibson-Roberts.
On the subject of handspindles, high whorl and low whorl, the author is unabashedly opinionated: the high whorl is superior and she shows why in this book.
High Whorling is an inviting book book for the new spinner, covering all aspects of spinning with the high whorl handspindle from fiber selection and preparation to detailed spinning technique. It is also the ideal guide for those with previous experience in low whorl or wheel spinning who wish to take up the high whorl. Spinners at all levels will want to study the author in her (sometimes surprising) approach to fiber and spinning technique, her choice of hand tools, and her own carefully worked out methods of yarn finish.
135 pages, hardcover
SPINNING IN THE OLD WAY by Pricilla A. Gibson-Roberts.
Loose fibers become yarn because of twist, which holds them together. Just by adding twist you can create yarn that is sturdy enough to be knitted or woven into fabric. All you need is a high-whorl spindle, some unspun fiber, a few yards of leftover knitting yarn for a leader, and the guidance of a master spinner and knitter Priscilla Gibson-Roberts through the pages of this book.
176 pages, softcover, 6" x 9", illustrations throughout
Small Upright Spinning Wheel Construction Manual by Richard & Myrna Schneider.
This charming diminutive wheel is compact and easily portable. Measured drawings, photographs and detailed, step-by-step instructions help you every step of the way. You do need a lathe to make this wheel.
58 pages, softcover, 6.5" x 8.5"
No-Lathe Saxony-Style Spinning Wheel Construction Manual by Richard & Myrna Schneider.
54 pages, softcover, 6.5" x 8.5".
SPINDLE SPINNING: From Novice to Expert by Connie Delaley
This book leads you, with the humor and skill of a patient teacher, from your very first day to fine silk thread. Shows you the best methods for all types of spindles — top-whorl to Navajo — even how to make your own!
Learn to Spin Silk on a Top-Whorl Spindle by Ruth Macgregor.
Silk, the stuff of dreams. . . .
Have you dreamed of silken yarns, their moonlight shimmer cool and fresh?
Have you wanted to learn to spin, but been put off by the thought of wool or fuzzy yarns?
Yearn no more — the answer is here!
OVERSHOT: A Manual for Creative Drafting and Weaving by Peter Mitchell.
As a "manual for creative drafting", OVERSHOT presents step-by-step instruction for and illustration of the creation of original overshot drafts.
The Ashford Book of Weaving for Knitters
- by Rowena Hart
For weavers and knitters, an all-new project book with 25 stunning scarves. Sixty-five, full colour pages with easy and inspirational projects. This project book uses a selection of fabulous knitting yarns available from yarn stores everywhere and featuring the exciting, new, portable Ashford Knitters Loom – a great combination for weavers and knitters on the go.
FELTMAKING: The Whys and Wherefores, by Sheila Smith & Freda Walker
(Revised & updated) A detailed analysis of felt, wool and all its characteristitcs, is welcome because until a prospective feltmaker really understands the nature of wool it is impossible to grasp the full potential of making felt. Contains: Different techniques of fetlmaking for all purposes and uses. A useful set of graphs analysing the relationship between types of wool from the various breeds (there is no recent book containing this information), and a glossary of technical terms.
PIXIE FELT: Using the Felting Needle, by Birgitte Krag Hansen.
NOTE: This book is the English language version of Nissefilt: Med Filtenålen
This book by Birgitte Hansen is her second needle-felting book. There is some beginner material in here but it quickly progresses to the intermediate and advanced levels. Most of the focus is on 3-dimensional figures. Filled with color pictures, an experienced needle-felter shouldn't have any problem understanding what is being taught - especially since it's now in English.
NEW FELT: Using the Felting Needle, by Birgitte Krag Hansen.
Felting is basically a simple technique with many possible variations. These variations have now been increased considerably by the felting needle. This surprisingly simple constructed needle has made it much quicker and easier to work with wool. The needle gathers and fixes the wool into surfaces and shapes with its barbs completely without soap and water, which has otherwise been necessary for the felting process.
ALLA TIDERS TRASMATTOR (Great Rag Rugs). By Hallgren, Ann-Kristin and Monika Hallén.
1999. Sweden. An exciting idea-book with instructions for making 35 rag rugs to beautify the floors of your home.
STRIPES RHYTHMS COLOURS. By Lena Rahoult.
1996. Sweden. Swedish - born Lena Rahoult has worked with textiles in various ways. This exhibition focuses on the artist's own collection of traditional and older mattress weave, called 'bolster' ware in Swedish.
TRASMATTOR FRÅN HELA SVERIGE (Rag Rugs from All of Sweden). By Birgitta Fritz, ed.
1997. Sweden. Rag rugs, what a great creative way of re-using old materials into exclusive home textiles.
Learning to Weave, Revised Edition by Deborah Chandler
Since its first printing over a decade ago, Learning to Weave has become the standard text both for teachers and self-taught weavers.
Ashford Book of Rigid Heddle Weaving Revised Edition
by Rowena Hart.
International weaving teacher, Rowena Hart, shows how you can create exiting, beautiful garments and crafts - all on the simple two shaft loom.
In the book she guides you step-by-step through the many techniques, showing just how easy it is to make your woven creations come alive through color and texture.
By Barbara Foster. Approx. 6 patterns and 32 pages. This book takes you step-by-step with 85 full color photographs. Patterns include: Doily or collar edging, pillowcase edging, bookmark, medallion,butterfly, note card, and hanky edging.
by Janet Meany and Paula Pfaff. This classic book gives instructions for weaving a first rug, plus twenty traditional two- and four-shaft patterns.
A Handweaver's Pattern Book, by Marguerite P. Davison.
There is literally a lifetime of 4-harness patterns here.
Hands On Rigid Heddle Weaving by Betty Linn Davenport
The rigid heddle loom is efficient, but still simple enough that you can see exactly what's happening as you weave. It is easy and fast to set up and is very portable: you can take it traveling or to workshops.
By Elsa Krogh
Towels are wonderful projects for the loom. You can weave small fingertip towels or large bath towels, thin dish towels for the kitchen or bulky towels for the bathroom. They are all useful and they make wonderful gifts. More than 10 patterns in twill, waffle weave, huck and more.
The "WEAVER'S COMPANION" should be next to every weaver's loom! All the information you need in one handy, spiralbound edition.
by Anne Field
A wealth of information for all spinners. This seems to be the first serious spinning book that most spinners purchase. Ten chapters covering just about every aspect of our craft.
If Volume I were a pebble cast into your imagination, this Volume II deals with the ripples. Packed with details, ideas and recently emerged techniques, Ayala casts a wider ring around the subject, filling in any gaps, adding a welter of possible projects and incorporating other felting methods for the greater glory of needlefelting.
96 pages, spiralbound, photographs and illustrations throughout
Introduction to Needle Felting, Sculpting a Doll with. . .With Sharon Costello
Step-by-step instructions for creating whimsical characters from carded wool fiber. Areas covered include:
From the editors of HANDWOVEN magazine come this series of pattern booklets. Follow them exactly or add your own individual touches. There are patterns for 2-shaft, 4-shaft, and 8-shaft looms included.
Peggy Osterkamp's New Guide to Weaving #1: Revised Edition. How to Wind a Warp and Use a Paddle, by Peggy Osterkamp.
To quote from the front piece; "More time and more pleasure from your weaving - that?s what Peggy Osterkamp?s New Guide to Weaving offers novice & experienced weaver alike.
Spin It: Making Yarn from Scratch, by Lee Raven, edited by Traci Bunkers. This little book will teach you all you want to know about handspindles and how to use them to make your very own yarn. Designed to appeal to the beginner spinner, tips and hints are provided that illustrate how easy, enjoyable, and relaxing spinning can be. Handspindles are the simple tools that help you turn wool into yarn: from a potato on a stick, to beautiful handcrafted wood spindles and new-age titanium spindles with CD whorls. Included are complete instructions for five simple, appealing projects: a woven scarf, a knitted bunny bag, a spiral-knit baby hat, knitted fingerless mittens, and a crocheted felted brimmed hat. Once you begin spinning on a handspindle, you won't want to stop--it's soothing, portable, and mesmerizing.
Peggy Osterkamp's New Guide to Weaving #2: Third Edition. Warping Your Loom and Tying on New Warps, by Peggy Osterkamp.
Book Number two in the series. Starting with Why call them "shafts"?
Navajo Weaving Way is a compilation of three of Bennett?s out-of-print books augmented with all-new chapters on spinning, carding, and dyeing.
NYA VÄVBOK (New Book of Weaving). By Lundell, Laila.
1998. Sweden. A follow-up to Lundell's classic bestseller Stora Vävboken (The Big Book of Weaving) of 1976, this book presents the most innovative weaving techniques used to make rugs, drapes, and even pillows and handtowels.
By Diane Varney
Few things are as satisfying as creating the perfect yarn for a special project. This book, first printed by Interweave Press in 1987, leads the new or intermediate spinner gently into the world of super-soft luxury fibers, textured effects, and the dyepot’s miracles. Learn to apply dye to fibers in new and exciting ways, predict how novelty yarns will look in finished fabrics, blend fibers for color and texture effects, and spin singles and plied yarns in ways that will put more zip in your spinning—and your weaving, knitting, and crocheting. Corespun, bouclé, snarl, knotted, and tufted yarns will become part of your spinning repertoire, and you’ll rediscover the excitement of spinning all over again.
From the editors of HANDWOVEN magazine come this series of pattern booklets. Follow them exactly or add your own individual touches. There are patterns for 4-shaft, and 8-shaft looms included.
DVD: Feltmaking By Hand-The Basic Process with Anne Einset Vickrey. Learn the Scandinavian style felting technique. From choosing wool through felting. 51 minutes
DVD: Feltmaking-Garments and Surface Design Techniques with Anne Einset Vickrey. If you already know and understand the basics, this DVD will take you to the next level. 94 minutes
Needle Felting: Art Techniques and Projects By Anne Einset Vickrey, with Patricia Spark and Van Alstyne
This book is an introduction to an exciting new method for creating fiber art. All you need is some wool fiber, a foam work surface, and a felting needle to create flat or three-dimensional works of art.
with Anne Einset Vickrey. Learn the Scandinavian style felting technique. From choosing wool through felting. 51 minutes
with Anne Einset Vickrey. If you already know and understand the basics, this tape will take you to the next level. 94 minutes
From the editors of HANDWOVEN magazine come this series of pattern booklets. Follow them exactly or add your own individual touches. There are patterns for 4-shaft, 8-shaft, and 10-shaft looms included.
by James D. Scarlett.
A history book? Yes, but so much more. There are over 450 tartan setts described - with thread counts.
by Gordon Teall of Teallach and Philip D. Smith Jr.
District tartans, the authors argue, have at least as long a pedigree as clan tartans, but little attention has been paid to them over the last two centuries while interest has focused on clan tartans.
Mastering Weave Structures, by Sharon Alderman
This is the most important new weaving book Interweave Press has published in almost 20 years. Sharon Alderman, one of the finest weavers in America, has written a book that teaches you the finer points of weave structure in the same personal way a friend would encourage and inspire you. Clear explanations, wonderful examples, and color photographs of stunning fabrics introduce you to the fundamental principles of weave structure. Beyond selecting or modifying a draft, Sharon also helps you make decisions about choosing the fibers and yarns you need to produce endlessly inventive fabrics. Comprehensive and detailed, the chapters cover plain weave, twills, satin, waffle weaves, distortions of the grid, three-element weaves, loom-controlled double weave, Bedford cords and piques, loom-controlled pile weaves, and crepe weaves. This book is destined to become a new classic and should be on every weaver’s bookshelf.
VARP OCH VÄFT (Warp and Weft). Textilkonstnärerna och Hemslöjden (Textile Artists and Handicrafts) By Lundahl, Gunilla.
1995. Sweden. This lovely book presents Swedish textiles of all kinds, using historical folk handicraft as an inspiration for contemporary designs.
By Lyn Morton. Tatting, a very old lace form, is an accessible and thriving craft that presents many ideas for decorative uses in the modern home.
For easy reference, the book is divided into three sections - Patterns and Motifs, Jewellery and Accessories, and Greeting Cards - but the patterns are very versitle and can be adapted to a multitude of uses, ranging from coasters and mobiles, to window hangers and wedding hoops.
Includes
105 pages, softcover, color throughout
Patterns are diagrammed and written out.
by Nadine Sanders and Joyce Harter
This new book on the Moorman technique keeps the best from the 1994 Weaving That Sings:
Variations on the Theo Moorman Technique and adds new: color photography, design and weaving exercises, materials, applications for double-warp overlay and multi-inlay.
Supplementary CD-ROM included
"A rainbow of children hold hands around the world..." by Karey Solomon
A collection of original snowflake patterns. by Karey Solomon
SPECIAL SALE!!! 30% OFF THIS BOOK until this order is depleated!!!
Hand Woolcombing and Spinning: A Guide to Worsteds from the Spinning-Wheel, by Peter Teal.
Here is a book for hand-spinners who aspire to a high standard of professional excellence in their work. The book rediscovers many of the old methods and applies modern technological principles to the forgotten trade of woolcombing.
Being a Compendium of Information, Advice, and Opinion on the Noble Art & Craft
by Alden Amos
Wheel designer and maintainer of textile traditions, Alden Amos the recipient and evaluator of traditional wisdom lets no point go unexamined. This is truly a BIG book offering decades of experience in making and handling yarn. He’ll change your spinning for the better, whether you agree with him or not.
"Amos, who has been making spinning wheels and studying handspinning for more than 40 years, has finally distilled this experience into a definitive book deserving of it's title. "– Library Journal
Hardbound, 7 x 9, 480 pages, 400 line illustrations
by Helene Bress
Everything you need to know about inkle weaving is covered in this book, including directions for four different pick-up techniques. Of course, the basics are covered, and many interesting and practical variations are described. The pick-up weaves are described in words and are accompanied by clear pictures.
Bruges Flower Lace, by Edna Sutton.
This illustrated guide describes the basic techniques used in the lace - braids, edgings, leaves, scrolls and flowers - and provides detailed explanations on how to make many decorative lace pieces. The accessible instructions are accompanied by photographs, prickings and diagrams. 118 pages, softcover
