Category: WEFT magazine

  I got back to the desktop yesterday and started working on the text and diagrams for the next article. I don’t expect them to use the diagram above – they have ‘nicer’ graphics software – but I wanted to provide the draft information to explain the 3 options for threading this particular weave structure. …

  Here is a ‘tease’ – something I’m working on presently.  What is it?  My surname’s first letter. I am – or was – a production weaver, constantly looking for ways to work efficiently (and ergonomically, of course!) I learned a technique about using pick up to extend the limitations of a shaft loom and…

  I was expecting to have a rather quiet day, but in my email this afternoon was the digital version of the spring issue of WEFT.  Of course I had to immediately stop and check out ‘my’ article…(ahem) I have probably mentioned previously that when the brain bleed hit I was about halfway through weaving…

  It finally happened.  Oh, there have been episodes of sleet, although they never amounted to much.  But winter, late as it is, has been creeping closer.  Yesterday the trees were covered in hoar frost – the first ‘real’ hard frost we have had, here, and this morning a sprinkling of light snow.  It won’t…

  With the Weavers Show and Share booked for Sunday afternoon, I was getting concerned if the latest issue of WEFT would arrive in time.   Voila!  This morning’s mail contained the magazine. I have to confess that when I write (and I actually include most authors) I sweat bullets trying to include ALL the information,…

  With the Weavers Show and Share booked for Sunday afternoon, I was getting concerned if the latest issue of WEFT would arrive in time.   Voila!  This morning’s mail contained the magazine. I have to confess that when I write (and I actually include most authors) I sweat bullets trying to include ALL the information,…