by StaceyW | Dec 22, 2017 | Art, Education, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
I am delighted to announce that Woven Shibori for Textural Effects is now available as a downloadable pdf for 15€. I can’t believe that I wrote this in 2010. That means that I have been playing with (oops, sorry – ‘working on’) shibori,...
by StaceyW | Oct 27, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
Combined single and double cloths is one of my favourite methods of creating textural weaving because of the immediate possibility of tension differences between the more compact single cloth areas compared to the looser double cloth construction. With handweaving,...
by StaceyW | Sep 8, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
This is a wonderful field of discovery for different textures. The areas I have focussed on so far are different setts, different yarn properties, different weave structures, different ratios. Today’s blog is a quick overview of how texture can be created...
by StaceyW | Aug 11, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Weaving
In my last texture blog post in July, I was talking about honeycomb. At the same lecture that I gave at Complex Weavers Seminars on honeycomb, I also showed the results of shibori and seersucker techniques in creating texture in single cloth. Shibori is usually...
by StaceyW | Jun 23, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
Texture in Plain Weave – Starting Simple As promised last week, here is the first post on how to introduce texture into your weaving. This is especially for people with simple looms, rigid heddle, 2 or 4 shafts. I’m not going to go into tapestry here as there...
