Janet explains how to use paper clips as an ingenius aid to count metal heddles accurately and efficiently.

Learn about three easy to find and affordable items to make your weaving and warping life easier.

A Handweaver’s Pattern Book by Marguerite Davison is VERY popular; many weavers consider it a must-have, especially for folks with four shaft looms. Known as the “Green Book” for its green, hardback cover, it’s one of the best references and draft collections available for four shafts, containing hundreds of drafts in all kinds of different structures, as well as some basic theory related to those structures.

I could easily teach an entire class just on winding a warp. It seems like such a simple thing yet there are so many hints and tricks that make it far more efficient and enjoyable - and, more importantly, that make dressing your loom easier and more successful. 

Sometimes, the best ideas come at the last minute. Deciding that Janet, Carly, and Dawn would join everyone in the "Weaving for the Winter Holidays" weave-along was one of those brilliant, last-minute inspirations. We would weave along with you!

Note: This post was originally posted in the Handweaving Academy’s Weaver’s Toolbox, which is chock full of tips and tricks! Do you ever avoid a project with lots of stripes because of all the color changes? I know I have! Unless you employ clever tricks (and boy, do I have tricks), changing colours is time consuming, wastes yarn, and is just plain tedious.  Take this stripe plan from one of...

If you’re like me, you’ve probably had at least one project disaster where you sat down at the loom and got a crushing disappointment – totally different from what you expected. This blog post will explain how to anticipate and avoid those unexpected color disasters. First, if you’ve had color disasters, you aren’t alone. Virtually everyone’s had them, including me. One of my first color disasters looked like this: I...

If you don’t love warping but you don’t want to weave the same thing over and over, one way to solve the problem is to weave many different projects on the same warp. You can weave nearly limitless possibilities from a single warp! One way to change things up without changing the tie up, treadling, or threading is to play with colors. You might be surprised by how many different...

Using yarns whose colors clash can be a challenge when designing your own handwoven cloth. It’s easy for them to weave into fabric you dislike. But it’s not that hard to harmonize colors that don’t “go together”. This blog post will show you how to use clashing color combinations to make beautiful handwoven cloth. Why do colors clash? Let’s start by saying that “clashing” is a subjective response. Clashing is...