Learn to weave your own scarves, shawls, and garments, as well as both decorative and functional items for your home. If you are new to weaving, we suggest starting with the Essential Weaving course and then moving to the Rigid Heddle, Multishaft, or Tapestry courses, depending on what kind of loom you want to work with. Handwoven Colour is an exploration of how handpainted and hand-dyed yarns can be applied to weaving projects.
Our courses are designed for weavers starting from the absolute beginner to a weaver who wants to discover weave structures and concepts in a way that builds on gained knowledge. We've organized the courses in a curated path so you can get from where you are to where you want to be.
A gamp is a sampler, a weaver’s way of using a single warp to test out multiple ideas. It could be a colour gamp or a weave structure gamp or in this case a gamp that explores colour patterns. Colour and Weave is not a weave structure but rather a pattern, in the sense that it is simply plain weave with the addition of colour effects through alternating light and dark threads.
The first warp uses an easy all over houndstooth colour sequence leaving areas of solid yellow and white just like you would have in a fried egg and the second shows you how to use just a bit of striping to create a colour and weave highlight in the corner of your towels with a more muted scrambled egg palette where buttery and deep yellow combine. Mix and match and make them your own.
These 4-shaft Ms and Ws twill placemats are quick to weave up in 3/2 cotton. Weave a set of 4 matching placemats or weave one long table runner. By changing up your treadling progressions, you can weave a series of different twill patterns too!
In The Intentional Weaver course with Laura Fry, we learned how to beam a warp using a trapeze and this is the project we put on the loom. It’s a 5-yard / 4.6 m long 3/2 cotton warp that we threaded on 8 shafts in a “wall of troy” threading pattern. This pattern can also be threaded on 4 shafts, so both drafts are included here. Changing the treadling will produce new patterns.
Inspired by a rosepath pattern found in a vintage Swedish book of weaving designs. The sampler has a variety of motifs commonly found in krokbragd weaving. They are arranged in colorful bands with a broader field in the middle of the design.
Clasped weft project. Inspired by the characteristic warm pinks of spring cherry blossoms, this long, drapey silk-merino scarf is perfect for shoulder seasons where you want to wrap a soft cloth many times to keep out the cold.
Clasped warp project. Inspired by the characteristic warm pinks of spring cherry blossoms, this silk-merino cowl is perfect for shoulder seasons. Combining warp interlocking and plain-weave it’s a great project to highlight the power of the rigid heddle loom. Sewing the ends together creates an easy to wear cowl.
In the pattern, Felicia makes a series of twill blankets, but you could use the same idea and weave pillows, or a table runner, or a scarf.
Handwoven Twill Gamp Pattern. The first project in this workshop will be weaving a twill gamp, which is a way for us to experiment with many different variations of twill.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Weave different houndstooth scarf patterns using a rigid heddle loom, 4-shaft, or 8-shaft loom.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Using gradient hand-dyed sock blanks as the main ingredient, we’re exploring optical colour mixing, drape, and texture through a series of handwoven scarves.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Using gradient hand-dyed sock blanks as the main ingredient, we’re exploring optical colour mixing, drape, and texture through a series of handwoven scarves.
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
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 info needed to break down those pesky number counts.
In this tiny tutorial, Felicia Lo demonstrates how to use the Ashford Fringe Twister to make twisted fringe for handwovens.
In this weaving tutorial, learn how to weave with multiple weft shuttles for short, repeating stripes and multiple weft colour changes.
Here is a list of some of Felicia’s favourite spinning and weaving books!
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been asking many of you in this fibre arts community about what struggles and challenges you face. We
Download our guide to weaving equipment » This little guide is just about the absolute basics of what you need to get started with weaving.
A reed substitution chart is a great way to extend your reeds to be used at a wide range of setts.
In this tutorial, we warp and begin weaving on a circular frame.
Here are a few of the tools that I mention in the Essential Weaving workshop
Here are some of the most common weaving terms that will help you understand the process.
Here are a few links to various suppliers that manufacture looms and tools for weaving
