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  • Weaving Chiapas

    Maya Women’s Lives in a Changing World

    In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Doubleweave Revised & Expanded

    Series series The Weaver's Studio
    Conventional shaft loom weaving constricts the weaver into making only a single layer of fabric that is no wider than the loom. Increase your loom's capabilities with Doubleweave Revised & Expanded!In this comprehensive guide to doubleweave, master-weaver Jennifer Moore revisits the tips and techniques to weaving in multiple layers. Doubleweave Revised & Expanded is filled with new information ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Contemporary Weaving in Mixed Media

    This glorious book is a modern guide to weaving, an ancient craft that is reaching new heights of popularity, from acclaimed contemporary weaver and textile artist Rachna Garodia.It contains a wealth of practical advice and tons of inspiration for every aspect of this endlessly adaptable craft, from gathering materials to making and exhibiting ambitious woven masterpieces, bringing in a wide ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Shadow Weave Simply

    Understanding the Weave Structure 25 Projects to Practice Your Skills

    Add Shadow Weave to your repertoire with Susan Kesler-Simpson's easy-to-follow instructions.Susan's approach is to first break down the structure of Shadow Weave so that any level weaver can understand how alternating light and dark threads in both warp and weft can present a dominant motif outlined with an identical shadow. She walks you through how the structure builds and weaves, and once you ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Rags to Rugs

    30 New Weaving Designs for Repurposed Fabrics

    by Tom Knisely ...
    Tom Knisely is back with 30 brand-new designs for his favorite type of weaving project: rag rugs!Rag rugs are made from otherwise “scrap” fabric or repurposed linens or clothing. When planned and woven carefully, your cast-off fabric will become a gorgeous, hard-wearing floor mat! In Rags to Rugs, Tom explores the weaving possibilities of a variety of fabrics, from T-shirts and jeans to quilts, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Homegrown Flax and Cotton

    DIY Guide to Growing, Processing, Spinning & Weaving Fiber to Cloth

    by Cindy Conner ...
    Grow your own sustainable clothes!From seed to shirt, Cindy Conner shows you how to plant, grow, harvest, process, spin, and weave cotton and flax into cloth from which you can sew your own clothes. And since cotton and flax are made from plants, when your clothes' usefulness has passed they can also return to the environment without causing harm--a truly renewable and sustainable option for ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Creative Treadling with Overshot

    Explorations in Weave Structure & 36 Projects

    Step out of the weaving comfort zone and experiment with something new!Weave structures often have specific threading and treadling patterns that are unique to that particular weave structure and not shared with others. This book takes you out of the traditional method of weaving overshot patterns by using different treadling techniques. This will include weaving overshot patterns as Summer/Winter ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Silk for the Vikings

    Series Book 15 - Ancient Textiles
    The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking burial find ever discovered, the other silk ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weaving and Fabric in Antiquity / Weben und Gewebe in der Antike

    Materiality – Representation – Epistemology – Metapoetics / Materialität – Repräsentation – Episteme – Metapoetik

    Weaving and Fabric in Antiquity: Materiality – Representation – Epistemology – Metapoetics presents 11 papers arranged under the four headings of the title which focus on the process of textile manufacture, the weaving process itself, and the materiality of fabric. Contributions address the problematic issues of cognitive archaeology, consumer research, literary theory and themes addressing both ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Willow

    A Guide to Growing and Harvesting

    Learn to grow, harvest & weave willow to make twenty simple projects—from napkin rings to laundry baskets—without the need of complicated tools.Handmade objects woven from natural materials are fast becoming the must-have accessories of the contemporary interior. Master basket maker and willow grower Jenny Crisp teaches you the key basket-weaving techniques and shows you how to make woven objects ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dress and Society

    Contributions from Archaeology

    Edited by T. F. Martin, R. Weech ...
    While traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and three currently popular topics: identity, bodies and material culture. Not only does dress ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Handbook of Weaves

    1875 Illustrations

    by G. H. Oelsner ...
    Series series Dover Crafts: Weaving & Dyeing
    To anyone concerned with the design of fabrics, the structure of the cloth is, of course, of prime importance for achieving best results and most satisfying ultimate appearance. Oelsner's A Handbook of Weaves, long the most reliable and comprehensive source of information on the subject, will save you hours of research work and offer information necessary for new cloth effects. It covers the field ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weben mit kleinem Rahmen

    Techniken, Muster und Projekte für Anfänger

    by Fiona Daly ...
    Nach dem Nähen, Stricken und Sticken erobert gerade das Weben die Handarbeits-Herzen. Lange Zeit war dieses Hobby zu materialintensiv und aufwändig, um in der Masse anzukommen - doch mit den in diesem Buch vorgestellten kleinen Webrahmen hält das Weben Einzug ins Wohnzimmer! Autorin Fiona Daly erklärt, wie man einen Web-Rahmen aus Pappe selbst fertigt. Wem das zu aufwändig ist, der kann alle Web ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crackle Weave Simply

    Understanding the Weave Structure 27 Projects to Practice Your Skills

    Finally, an easy explanation of Crackle Weave!Susan Kesler-Simpson, author of the popular Overshot Simply and Shadow Weave Simply, now explains Crackle Weave "simply." Her teaching style is to break down the weave structure into its basic parts so that it is easy to understand, and then teach you how the parts work together to create the weave structure so that you can use any pattern or create ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Benches, Stools, and Chairs

    A Guide to Ergonomic Woven Seating

    Walter Turpening has been designing and perfecting custom seating for crafters and artistic creators (particularly weavers, knitters, handspinners, and musicians) for 20-plus years. His signature cotton-cord, curved, woven seats on fine woodworked frames are fervently desired by those who have sampled his seating, and he operates on an average two-year waiting list. In recent years, he has ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Shedding the Shackles

    Women's Empowerment Through Craft

    by Lynne Stein ...
    A celebration of female inventiveness and aesthetic sensibility, Shedding the Shackles explores women's craft enterprises, their artisanal excellence, and the positive impact their individual projects have on breaking the poverty cycle.In the first part of the twentieth century, suffering from a legacy inherited from the Victorian era, craft skills, such as weaving, sewing, embroidery, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Guide complet du tissage avec un métier à peigne envergeur

    Le métier à peigne envergeur est une bonne alternative aux métiers à pédalier pour s'initier facilement à diverses techniques de tissage et réaliser des créations de taille moyenne. Couleurs, motifs, textures... les possibilités créatives sont infinies ! Un premier chapitre explique les bases du tissage et la préparation du matériel. Dans le second chapitre, diverses familles de points sont ... Read more

    $23.29 USD

  • The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World

    The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery

    Series Book 35 - Ancient Textiles
    This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the first time all 43 embroideries believed to have been made in the British Isles and Ireland in the early medieval period. New research carried out on those ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X

    Series Book 5 - Ancient Textiles
    The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fashioned Selves

    Dress and Identity in Antiquity

    Edited by Megan Cifarelli ...
    The study of dress in antiquity has expanded in the last 20 years, evolving from investigations of costume and ethnicity in ancient art and texts and analyses of terms relating to textiles and their production, to broader studies of the social roles of dressed bodies in ancient contexts, texts, and images. This volume emerges from Approaches to Dress and the Body sessions at the Annual Meetings of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Competition of Fibres

    Early Textile Production in Western Asia, South-east and Central Europe (10,000-500BCE)

    Edited by Wolfram Schier, Susan Pollock ...
    Series Book 36 - Ancient Textiles
    The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other. Technological and economic practices - for example, the strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared - in the production ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Overshot Simply

    Understanding the Weave Structure 38 Projects to Practice Your Skills

    Overshot is perhaps the most iconic weaving technique--think antique coverlets and fancy table runners--yet many weavers are intimidated by its complex-looking structure. But it doesn't have to be difficult! In this book, Susan Kesler-Simpson makes overshot approachable by breaking it down piece by piece so that the weaver understand how it works, and then she puts it all back together so that ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Treasures from the Sea

    Purple Dye and Sea Silk

    Series Book 30 - Ancient textiles
    Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the molluscs Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris and Stramonita Haemastoma which, through a chemical reaction of photosynthesis, produces hues ranging from dark red to bluish purple color. The importance of purple dye since ancient times as a status symbol, a sign of royal and religious power is well documented. Less well known is sea silk, a precious ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Textiles and the Medieval Economy

    Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries

    Series Book 16 - Ancient Textiles
    Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus