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What Is Good Cloth?
When you come and sit down at your loom, what are you focused on? Are you obsessing over a perfectly balanced cloth? Perhaps you are…
Best Wool for New Spinners
If you’re a new or newer spinner looking for just the right spinning fibre to help you on your hand spinning journey, you’re in luck.…
Swatching the Little Basic Cardi Pattern
Join me as I swatch for my next sweater knit: the Little Basic Cardigan knitting pattern by Holli Yeoh!
Those Pesky Numbers
New weavers sometimes have a bit of a challenge coming to grips with the numbering systems used to identify their yarns, and Laura explains all the in…
Featured Student: Pearl Wang
“At my age, I’m not sure I’d be the most appealing member to highlight…” is nothing less than you would expect Pearl Wang, our Featured…
TurtleMade Spindle Review: A Sturdy Entry Point to the Turkish Spindle
As a spinner who enjoys her spindles as much as (and sometimes more than) her wheels, I know what I like in a spindle, but…
Weaving Circles in Tapestry
The fifth article in the Building Confidence in Tapestry series shares helpful tips on how to approach and weave circles in your tapestry projects.
How SETT Affects Your Finished Tapestry
Janna's fourth article in the Building Confidence in Tapestry series talks about SETT and variables such as the gauge of both yarns (warp and weft) as…
Choosing an E-Spinner
There are many options for e-spinners available now that fit every style of spinning and budget. Compare e-spinners to choose the best one for you.
Troubleshooting Tapestry: Warps getting too close together or too far apart
In the third article of this Building Confidence in Tapestry series, we are talking about weft tension in tapestry. Maintaining consistent weft tensio…
Tapestry Looms
In the second article of this Building Confidence in Tapestry series, we are talking about tapestry looms; what to look for, the pros and cons of the …