Welcome to your digital source for weaving expertise, inspiration, patterns, and drafts. Join us in exploring design methods, special techniques, and new ideas in weaving for multi-shaft and other types of looms.

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Digital resources for all weavers: over 76,000 drafts, thousands of historic weaving documents, weaving tools, and more. Subscribe today for full drafts, features, and tools when signed in! We provide complete draft collections produced from a large number of works on weaving. Samples:

Madelyn van der Hoogt demonstrates the right way to treat weft picks when you‘re weaving lace. Embrace the season with the light and lacy ideas you’ll find in the Spring 2025 issue. Find lift plans for the projects in this issue, plus links for web extras and subscriber-exclusive downloads.

Aug 17, 2017 · In the technical editing process, Handwoven editors use WIFs to check threading, treadling, and tie-up on every shaft-loom project, and threading, weaving, and pick-up patterns on most rigid-heddle projects. WIFs are created that show every end and pick within the project from the first hem-pick to the last.

Long Thread Media serves content for the handspinning, handweaving, and traditional needlework communities online, in person, and in print.

Long Thread Media serves content for the handspinning, handweaving, and traditional needlework communities online, in person, and in print.

weaving is almost too easy. But watching the constantly shifting warp colors and using a different weft color for each placemat will hold your weaving interest for all of the eight yards. And when you are finished weaving, you’ll have twelve different but …

Easy Weaving with Little Looms offers education and inspiration for weavers on rigid-heddle, inkle, tapestry, pin looms and more. Weaving is twice as nice when you learn how to combine colors, fibers, weave structures, and design techniques to …

This is an extensive digital archive of weaving, lace, and textile material created by Ralph Griswold. We are pleased and honored to be able to provide this wonderful collection to the world's community of weavers, lacemakers, and other textile artists!