Weaving Books
Weaving Books sorted from A to Z
Weaving instructions and how-to-books that will teach you how to weave, explore weave structures such as plain weave, huck lace, twill overshot and more. Find the right book for your rigid heddle loom, floor loom or table loom.
A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns
From
the Friends of Hand-woven. THE Reference book for 8 harness
patterns! This classic weaving book is a must have reference
for 25 different threadings including broken and undulating
twills, block weaves, overshot, summer and winter, waffle
weaves, huck lace, M's and O's, crackle weave, warp rep and
many more.
With over 900 samples and their drafts this book is a true treasure trove for the serious weaver. If you have and 8 harness loon then A Handweaver's Book of 8 Shaft Patterns should be in your weaving library. Period.
Card Weaving
This classic Volume takes the reader from the ancient origins of card or tablet weaving to the finished, intricate band. Card Weaving offers instructions on warping and weaving, how to design your own pattern, dark and light patterning, structural techniques and finishing will provide all you need to know to start card weaving.
You'll find that there is a whole lot more to card weaving than just cards and yarn. 142 pages
Color and Texture for the Rigid Heddle Loom
A study in Yarn Selection for Weavers.
Tamara Poff helps rigid heddle weavers to go beyond the rectangle with 12 innovative patterns for 12" to 24" rigid heddle looms.
If you know how to warp, you'll find ideas for beginner to advanced levels. Featured throughout is an in-depth analysis for successful color and fiber choices for the portable loom.
Learn about sett, color value and learn how to read yarn lables.121 pages
DIY Woven Art
DIY Woven Art is just for fun! Get weaving with this easy to follow book and create 15 unique woven art projects from colorful pillows to rugs and inspiring wall hangings.
DIY Woven Art includes tip on fiber and yarn selection and how to customized your weaving project, basically everything you need to create gorgeous projects from start to finish.
Doubleweave
Revised and Expanded
Master weaver Jennifer More revisits her best-selling title
with even more information and techniques.
This reimagined book retains all of the insight and instructions weavers loved in the first edition, plus four exciting new projects. Learn to weave triple wide fabrics, discover the Double Rainbow system of working with a rotation of six colors on four or eight shafts, finish your work more effectively while exploring one of the most intriguing weave structures.
176 pages, softcover
Handwoven Baby Blankets
What better way to welcome a tiny new person than a handwoven baby blanket?
These beautiful and colorful designs will appeal to todays contemporary moms as well as lovers of traditional weaves.
Handwoven Baby Blankets are a popular weaving project and Tom Knisely provides 30 snuggly blanket designs for 4 and 8 shaft weaving. You'll find a variety of plain or fancy weave structures that are applicable for other kinds of projects as well. 101 pages
Handwoven Table Linens
27 Fabulous Projects from a Master Weave, you will love these down to earth projects that are easy to master. Handwoven Table Linens has patterns and ideas to spruce up your table with new weaves Placemats, runners, tablecloths, and napkins play a central role in creating the look of a dining room or kitchen table, and this book gives you the tools needed to realize your vision for these special items.
Tom Knisely has found inspiration from things as varied as china patterns, a classic Spode Christmas tree, and traditional weaving patterns such as Shadow Weave, Wheel of Fortune, and Star of Bethlehem. For each pattern, he outlines the materials you need, how to set up your loom, and the pattern to weave. Add your own dash of inspiration if you choose different colors, and make each piece your own.
The 27 patterns in Handwoven Table Linens include simple weaves worked on 2- and 4-harness looms, as well as more complex weaves requiring more harnesses.
NEW!
How to Weave a Navajo Rug
and other Lessons from Spider Woman.
Navajo blankets, rugs and tapestries are the best know, most admired and most collected textiles in North America.
Want to weave a high quality Navajo style rug? This book has detailed instructions, meticulously illustrated by a Navajo artist, from warping the loom to important finishing touches.
Want to understand the deeper meaning? You'll learn how weaving relates to the earth, sky and sacred directions. Let master Navajo weavers share their craft and culture in a very unique weaving way. 142 pages, spiral bound, hardcover.
Huck Lace Weaving Patterns
Another book from weaving guru Tom Knisely.
Subtitled: With Color and Weave Effects. 567 Drafts and Samples plus 5 Practice Projects. Let Master Weaver Tom Knisely guide you into the world of loom controlled warp and weft floats on a plain weave ground fabric. Log Cabin is probably the best known color and weave pattern.
Tom combined Huck with color and weave opened the door to astonishing pattern possibilities. He came up with four color arrangements: light and dark, complementary, monochromatic and triad colors. 220 pages, spiral bound
Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom
Discover the full potential of the Rigid Heddle Loom. Rigid-heddle weaving is simple to learn, is easy to master, and offers a lifetime of possibilities to discover! Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom covers everything rigid-heddle weavers need to know about the craft, from the basics—how to select a loom, set it up, and get started—to a wide variety of fun techniques that yield beautiful results.
Begin by exploring a variety of weave structures, including finger-manipulated laces, tapestry, and color play with stripes, plaids, and multicolor yarns.
Then move on to more complex designs and irresistible projects, from pillows and curtains to bags, shawls, and even jewelry. Explore warp-face patterning, weft-pile weaving, weaving with fine threads, woven shibori, shadow weave, and the textural effects you can create with different yarns and with wire and conductive thread. Everything you need to know is here, with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions to ensure success. Softcover, 296 pages; Storey
Learning to Weave, Revised Edition, Deborah Chandler
THE reference book for the beginning four harness weaver! More than 40,000 weaver have used Learning to Weave as an unparalleled study guide to learn from scratch or hone their skills. All of the basics are covered: understanding the tools of weaving, making a good warp three ways, reading and designing drafts, and understanding weave structures.
We don't know of a better weaving text to teach yourself how to weave on a 4 harness table or floor loom. Softcover, 8 1/2 x 11, 232 pages, color photographs and black and white illustrations throughout.
Overshot Simply
Understanding the weave structure. 38 Projects to Practice your Skills. Overshot is perhaps the most iconic weaving technique. But it does not have to be difficult.
In this book Susan Kesler-Simpson makes overshot approachable by breaking it down piece by piece so the weaver understands how it works.
Then Susan puts it all back together so weavers will have the confidence to make their own overshot patterns or to try any of the 38 overshot projects Susan has designed in this book. 156 pages softcover
Also check out Susans new book "Shadow Weave Simply" further down the page
NEW! Rigid Heddle Weaving Basics and Beyond
Get the most from your Rigid Heddle Loom. Explore color, design and texture as you follow Deborah Jarchow's clear, step by step instructions.
From plain weave to inlay and hand manipulated lace this book opens the whole world of creative rigid heddle weaving.
This essential guide to weaving guides you from the basics and allows your weaving expertise to grow with many easy to follow projects ranging from scarves, to totes, pillows, blankets to wraps.202 pages, softcover
NEW! Shadow Weave Simply
Understanding the Weave Structure. 25 Projects to Practice your Skills.
Add Shadow Weave to your weaving repertoire and let masterweaver Susan kesler-Simpson guide you with these easy to follow instructions. Learn how to alternate light and dark threads in both warp in weft to achieve your design goal.
You will also find out how the weave structure builds and weaves and once you comprehend it you can transform other drafts of your choice to shadow weave or design your own shadow weave pattern. 120 pages.
Tapestry Weaving
Discover all you need to know about tapestry weaving, from choosing colors and winding warps to creating images and finishing off with tassels and beads.
Tapestry Weaving will offer step-by-step guidance on how to create horizontal and diagonal lines, curves, motifs, shading, outlines, borders and more. 98 pages, softcover
The Ashford Book of Weaving Patterns from Four to Eight Shafts
This weaving books will guide you as you build your skills and gain confidence. Elsa Krogh, a Danish weaver, spinner and author, will show you how to weave her favorite weaving patterns using four, six and eight shafts. Elsa has woven beautiful and exciting shawls, scarves, cushions, towels, table runners, placemats and fabric material.
The Ashford Book of Weaving Patterns from Four to Eight Shafts uses a variety of techniques from twill to summer and winter and modern backed weaves and there are projects for all levels of weaving experience. Many of the weaving patterns are sourced from archival material from Danish museums.
Elsa brings a wonderful sense of continuity to her craft as well as elegant Scandinavian style. 92 pages.
The Ashford Book of Rigid Heddle Weaving, Rowena Heart
Get weaving in no time! In the Ashford Book of Rigid Heddle Weaving
by Rowena Heart guides you step by step through the many weaving techniques,
showing just how easy it is to make your own woven
creations. Learn to warp the loom, weave small
tapestries, rugs, cushions, cotton towels and Leno Lace.
76 pages, softcover. Revised Edition,
The Handweaver's Pattern Directory
The Handweaver’s Pattern Directory is a full-color practical guide to weave structures for 4-shaft looms that features drafts for 600 weaves including twill, zigzag, diamond, herringbone, block drafts, and specialized techniques. It is an awesome reference guide that you will use over and over again. Each structure includes a color photograph, threading and treadling sequences, and degree of difficulty. Readers will find sections on tools and equipment, types of fibers and yarns, weaving basics, finishing techniques, ideas to encourage experimentation with different yarns, looms, and colors, and a full glossary of international weaving terminology. The Handweaver's Pattern Directory is divided into five sections for clarity: straight draft, point draft, block weaves, lace weaves, and specialized techniques. Individual samples are shown actual size or bigger from the front view, with a detail showing the reverse view where this is of particular interest. For purposes of comparison and pattern clarity, for each two-page unit of samples, the same color thread is often used for warp or weft. Extended samples (gamps) use different threading drafts and thread color combinations to increase the range of options available to the weaver. The Handweaver's Pattern Directory is a must have for the serious weaver! Please noted: this is not a how-to-weave-book, but a weaving pattern book. 196 pages
The Weaver's Idea Book
Take your rigid heddle weaving beyond the basics and explore the possibilities of your rigid heddle loom! The Weaver's Idea Book goes beyond the first steps of weaving so that you get the most from your rigid heddle loom. The Weaver's Idea Book presents a wide variety of patterns for the simple rigid-heddle loom, accompanied by harness drafts for multi haft looms. The techniques include leno, Brooks bouquet, soumak, and embroidery on fabric. Each chapter contains weaving patterns along with swatches illustrating the techniques, accompanied by step-by-step photography. The book is arranged by structure or type of weave, from variations on plain weave to doubleweave. With traditional patterns from around the world, bands, and fabrics woven on two double heddles, weaving tips and tricks help weavers at all levels achieve their textile dreams. In addition to pattern drafts, Jane offers project ideas that guide the reader through creating functional woven projects, from wearables to home decor. You may also like the companion DVD to this book: Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom. 239 pages
The Weaver's Inkle Pattern Directory
More than 400 Warp Faced inkle patterns for the weaving enthusiast. Highly praised expert weaver Anne Dixon brings us the Weaver's Inkle Pattern Directory, the ultimate resource for inkle weavers. This book provides the most comprehensive tool available to inkle weavers including instructions for inkle loom set up and simple techniques.
The Inkle loom Pattern Directory features an astonishing array of over 400 woven patterns and a wide range of inkle weaving techniques including warp- manipulated, pick-up, lettering, Baltic style patterns, monk's belt, soumak, gathering and pleating, dukagang inlay, inserted fringe, beaded edgings and more. 175 pages
Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes
Subtitled Miniature Overshot Patterns, Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes is a treasure trove of miniature overshot patterns. New and experienced weavers alike will treasure this collection of 92 miniature overshot patterns by Bertha Gray Hayes.
Each pattern includes the threading, drawdown and a color photo of a woven sample. Most of the patterns were woven by Bertha and mounted on her uniquely designed sample cards.
Weavers will also love the book's enchanting glimps into our handweaving heritage, including tidbits about the National Conference of American Handweavers, first held in 1938.
205 pages, hardcover
Weaving Made Easy
Weaving Made Easy is the beginning weavers’ ultimate guide to making fun, simple, and functional weaving projects from start to finish. Weaving Made Easy features seventeen simple projects made on the rigid heddle loom, a small, portable, and affordable weaving loom. Weaving Made Easy includes a step-by-step guide on getting started weaving; weaving vocab. 101, tools and materials explained, the basics of warp and weft, and how to start weaving. Weaving Made Easy offers clear instructions for how to make various practical fabrics, from drapy to sturdy scarves and bags to belts, placemats, rugs, and more. 127 pages
Weaving Rag Rugs
In
Weaving Rag Rugs Tom Knisely shares his rug weaving
expertise with you in a way that is easy to understand.
Detailed step by step instructions guide you through the
entire process, from preparing the rags to warping the loom
to finishing the edges.
The 30 favorite rag rug patterns from simple to advanced cover a huge range of materials, color schemes and styles.
This first comprehensive book on weaving rag rugs in a generation is sure to become a weaving classic. 129 pages
