How-Tos

I hope these “how-to” pages will help fellow weavers, dyers, surface designers, and sewing folk pursue their arts.

List of topics:

• Designing handwoven cloth
  • Complex Color Simulations in Photoshop
  • Designing for Devore in Photoshop
  • Designing Your Own Handwoven Fabric
  • Resources for Handwoven Fabric Design
  • Simulating gradient colors in a weaving draft with Photoshop
  • Sources for weaving yarns
• Dyeing and surface design
  • Dyeing and unwinding delicate yarns
  • Katazome
    • Applying katazome paste
    • Applying pigments to resisted cloth
    • Making Katazome Paste
    • Making Katazome Stencils
  • Making a vertical swift from Tinkertoys
• Sewing
  • Using Adobe Illustrator for flat pattern drafting
• Weaving
  • A comparison of jacquard looms
    • How a TC-2 jacquard loom differs from a shaft loom
    • The AVL Jacq3G jacquard loom
    • The Digital Weaving Norway TC-2 jacquard loom
  • Enlarging my sectional beam
  • How to use a Boyce weaver’s knotter
  • Live weight warp tensioning system
  • Putting a second warp on a trapeze
  • Tips for using the AVL Warping Wheel
  • Winding a back to front warp using the AVL Warping Wheel