A good storyteller knows how to weave a yarn, but a good weaver also knows how to tell a story. "Weaving provides a creative and uniquely artistic outlet for handweavers," said Anita Thompson, co ...

LAFAYETTE — Weaving is an ancient art ... “You thread the warp through the reed and heddles, you weave with a shuttle and you beat it with a beater,” Germann said — just as weavers ...

The main idea with weaving is to raise alternate warp threads ... pressed in place by a comb-like device called the reed, the heddles carrying the warp threads shift position, and the process ...

"Weaving has such a broad range of expression ... Dress the loom by pulling the warp threads through the reed and the heddles, and winding onto the loom. - Press the treadle to raise some of ...

You feed the waft from side to side by putting it on a bobbin in a shuttle that passes back and forth through the openings that the heddles create in the warp, thereby weaving the fabric.

The parts upon which the improvements are made are those which relate to the harness motion and the method of hanging the heddles ; there are also several improvements in the method of ...

The workshop will help participants learn weaving from experienced artisans ... dress a loom, thread heddles, and reed and tie a warp. Each participant will have an individually assigned loom ...