Category: Textile weaving

  • SAORI Eight

    So, I’m applying for a new, local show with both my beadwork and weaving; I’ve never sold my work at a show. Here’s one of my images. Not a great image by a long shot, but hopefully good enough to show the work. This scarf is wool and cotton, with a little rayon, silk, alpaca,…

  • Sprang at the Textile Center

    I like taking classes and learning new techniques. I enjoy the process of learning, and I’ve tried various things over the years. This time, I tried sprang, a technique that has been used throughout much of the world and dates back to at least the Bronze Age. The Weavers Guild of Minnesota offers a series…

  • SAORI Six

    A gift for a friend – it has been opened and I can share. This is mostly cotton, some rayon, a little superwash wool. It could be a shawl, or it could be cut up and made into something. I’ve got some single strands of heavier weight yarn inlays, a little bit of clasped weft…

  • SAORI Five

    I realized I forgot to blog this, a gift I made in July. It’s a mixture of mostly mohair and mohair blends, wool, and cotton. This was my first foray into mohair, and it was a bit of a challenge. I thought I was being smart by bracketing each mohair warp with a slick cotton…

  • SAORI Four

    Enjoy this speeded up video of weaving a section of this simple scarf. And, complete. Simple, light, fun and easy to make.