What Was Old is New Again!

 Anni Brown's Family of Double Weave Floppy Dolls.  Woven from an archived article and draft from the Winter 1977 Shuttle Spindle Dye Pot magazine found in our RFG Library!  

INSPIRATIONS

 Circles on Eight 

Kathy Rand's handwoven scarf with 20/2 silks.  Draft from Marian Stubenitsky's Max8, Page 11.  The warp was first sett at 36epi but upped to 48 epi to achieve CIRCLES!

Another beautiful Eight-Shaft Scarf  woven by Lorene Sullivan.  Fiber is bamboo and the draft was from Stricklers Pattern Book.  

MEET RFG'S NEWEST WEAVER! 

 

Congratulation and kudos to Wendy on completing her first handwoven project!  Wendy's bag was woven on her Rigid Heddle Loom from lessons learned while attending a 2.5 Day Workshop (Weaving Two Ways) at the CNCH 2026 Asilomar Conference last May.  

Sage Weavers - What's it all about?

 Our  bimonthly meeting was, as usual, filled with lots of conversation, opinions and catching up time.  This month we had a bounty of free yarn.  Some just so-so and some very nice indeed.  There were also stacks of Handwoven, Väv Magasinet, Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot and maybe a few others.  Most everything was gone by the end of the meeting, so it's in new hands and new future projects.

We started our round robin "show and tell" with Nancy P.  She has a history of education in weaving tapestry and brought three of her pieces for show and tell.   

  

Nancy P. with her larger than life Calla Lily Tapestry

 

Nancy told us that these were all woven sideways and that they were woven with the back facing the weaver.  Such amazing work and we were all happy that Nancy shared her work with us.

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Our next bit of show and tell was from Diana F.   Diana is a newer weaver and has subscribed to the School of Weaving with Jane Stafford.  The following photos are of her two towel warps.  The towels were so wonderfully soft and you could immediately tell they will be very absorbent. Can't  you envision this hanging in your kitchen?

 

 

                     This one is calmer, color-wise, but very elegant in its design

 

  

 

 This end piece was really the exciting end to Diana's project.  She tried weaving a tube for the very first time - and achieved one, much to her amazement.  She was so elated,  she wore it as a little scarf around her neck  for a while!

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We ended the meeting by looking at the new book by Stacy Harvey-Brown, 

Creative Dimensions in Weaving:  A Handweaver's Guide to Texture.

 

The photos in the book lure you into the world of textiles with texture, differential shrinkage, distortion and woven sculpture.  To illustrate, Beryl brought in a couple of samples from a Zoom workshop with Denise Kovnat in 2022 about deflected double weave.  The new book covers this subject, but also many more topics and is a sure bet to shake up your weaving  experience.