Weaving textiles

Five Things That I Wish I'd Known When I First Started Weaving on a Frame Loom from a completely self-taught weaver who learned entirely by trying things, Googling, and learning through mistakes.

DIY Weaving Techniques Pictures, Photos, and Images for Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Twitter

Motivation is important, but where do you go from there? I have broken down the top 5 tips for new weavers.

Weaving Landscapes (or just curves) This is something I posted to Ravelry, at the request of a mod who had seen some of the Work In Progess (WIP) pictures. Process post! Someone suggested I do one …

Online portfolio of Brooklyn-based fiber artist Alicia Scardetta. Shop from our collection of handmade weavings and woven wall hangings, or commission a custom design for your home.

Images via Koron007 Centuries ago, fabric was a rare and precious commodity only the wealthy could afford. So people treasured old and worn-out pieces of clothing to recycle and reuse in order to make new clothes. Thus the sakiori was born. Sakiori comes from the word "saki" which means to tear up or rip and "ori" which means weave. Recycling old fabric remnants into sakiori weavings follows the Japanese indispensable concept of “mottainai” or not wasting precious cloth that can prolong the…

Scaffold weave is one of the most unusual weaving techniques in the world and existed only in the Andean region of South America. The complexity of the woven textiles in this ancient world is still fascinating scholars, weavers and textile lovers today. Current day weavers in the Peruvian Highlands, particularly Pitumarca, still practice this ancient art. Why is it that complex textiles were so highly valued? In the Andes, the essence of the object was what was inside not on the surface…

Sarah Ward Podleszny if the creator of the UK-based studio Lark and Bower. The Studio specialises in beautiful hand-woven textiles, created using recycled and repurposed materials

Do textiles keep our integrity together and maintain our values? Parsons School of Design and Lidewij Edelkoort of Trend Tablet are creating a program to protect traditional crafts and our future.