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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
      • 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

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