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I have given you the whirlwind tour of my explorations in weaving with handspun cotton singles as weft. That was following a single path on a many-branched tree. I took a natural dye workshop bac … read more

Next was exploring the loop. When you have an open sett and a springy weft yarn, that weft yarn try to fold back on itself when the fabric is relaxed. What sett, what yarn size in order to get a f … read more

Moving right along, and playing with crepe twist ideas, I noticed that the fabric woven with a filling of “more than normal” twist curled up at one corner and down at the other. I had cut a small … read more

I was weaving plain weave. At the time I was not really clued in to the amount of twist, other than to put enough in so it wouldn’t fall apart during weaving. So I put another warp on, and wove a … read more

The single shuttle plaid idea comes from using a sliver with several colors side by side and spinning a different color with each arm’s length draw. I was both a new spinner and a new weaver at th … read more