Hand woven textiles

49 Weaving Project Ideas

This special textile is a Manta Alentejana, a traditional blanket from the Alentejo region of Portugal with a heritage reaching back over a century. Made from the wool of local merino sheep and hand woven on a manual wooden loom, this textile has an intricate premium weave for great durability. The traditional Espinhada pattern was given a new colour combination by Margarida Adónis.

Looking so psychedelic… this is overshot “woven on opposites”. I’m using the aqua for my main colour and orange for the accent colour. It beats more closely because there is no tabby to provide the base structure and looks more weft-faced. The treadling rhythm doesn’t feel as convenient as alternating two feet for pattern-tabby-pattern-tabby, but ...

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Welcome Dawn to Saori Santa Cruz designing and sewing clothing class! Lets look at how this progression class went from hand woven cloth to jacket Here is Dawn's happy hand woven fabric she wove Saori style and brought to class in her luggage from Canada . I had the studio all ready for cutting and sewing and trying on…. Dozens of muslins to try and finished garments as well for ideas….. Dawn confess that in her soaking stage of her finished cloth she some how felted part of it . …. you can…

One of our favorite ways to finish hand woven fabric is with a hemstitch. It’s…

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