Comment on Tencel Scarf by toomuchcanvas
Well, there are still a few patterns I want to try first, so it may be a while before I get around to trying overshot.
Also, do you use a pattern book? If so, would you mind sharing the title? The one I use is the Handweaver's Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon, but I'm looking for a pattern book with more complicated patterns. I love her patterns, I just feel like they are all starting to look the same.
Also, do you use a pattern book? If so, would you mind sharing the title? The one I use is the Handweaver's Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon, but I'm looking for a pattern book with more complicated patterns. I love her patterns, I just feel like they are all starting to look the same.
I have access to about 50 pattern books, which I consult every time I start something new...right now I'm working from a small overshot book...as soon as I can get to my studio I'll write down (and message to you)the titles and authors of a few I really like that are not overshot or that include many other patterns OTHER than overshot...twills and overshot just happen to be what I am using at the moment (overshot progresses naturally from twill. Overshot IS threaded twill)--so many variations! Remind me please if you do not hear from me in the next few days--okay? I'm glad to share resources!Let me know what types you are most intrigued by, I'm sure I have something in any genre...
I would absolutely love if you could send me some titles! I enjoy using twills, but I'm wanting to try something new. So you can just basically just send me the titles of whatever you pull off of the shelf first.
Thank you so much for your time!
Thank you so much for your time!
Okay, had a moment to rummage some book shelves: here's 3, 2 are classics, one is so chock full of patterns I just sit and read it sometimes (sorta like reading interesting encyclopedia entries, or taking one link to another on the web!!!)
The Weaving Book: Nearly 3000 variations of Plain Weave, Overshot, Twill, Monk's Belt, and Huck Weaves. Helene Bress, 1981, Scribners (the last mentioned above)
A Handweaver's Pattern Book, Self-published first in the 1940's, reissued many times, my edition is 1996. By Marguerite Porter Davison. Very famous, just google her: I am sure something will come up. A staple in larger, very good libraries.
New Key to Weaving, Mary E. Black. MacMillan publisher. A Classic, classic, sure to be found in libraries, on-line and even book stores. (Try Amazon, used one's come up all the time.)
Hope some of these can be of use to you--I'm very partial to the Bress book. Clear, concise yet dense, with a sense of humor!
The Weaving Book: Nearly 3000 variations of Plain Weave, Overshot, Twill, Monk's Belt, and Huck Weaves. Helene Bress, 1981, Scribners (the last mentioned above)
A Handweaver's Pattern Book, Self-published first in the 1940's, reissued many times, my edition is 1996. By Marguerite Porter Davison. Very famous, just google her: I am sure something will come up. A staple in larger, very good libraries.
New Key to Weaving, Mary E. Black. MacMillan publisher. A Classic, classic, sure to be found in libraries, on-line and even book stores. (Try Amazon, used one's come up all the time.)
Hope some of these can be of use to you--I'm very partial to the Bress book. Clear, concise yet dense, with a sense of humor!
Thank you so much!
I'll have fun looking through these, they sound wonderful!
I'll have fun looking through these, they sound wonderful!
Enjoy, and happy weaving!
Heading to the studio tomorrow...(Saturday, 10/15) I'll send some book titles your way!