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Catalog : Books : Weaving
Creative Weaving
Beautiful Fabrics with a Simple Loom
by Sarah Howard and Elisabeth Kendrick
Softcover, $14.95
ISBN 1-60059-098-6
Lark Books, 2007.
112 pages.
Weaving is a traditional craft that anyone can get involved in, at any age. It's the perfect way to
make beautiful and original things either to wear or to decorate your home. Calming and theraputic as an activity,
weaving gives you the thrill of choosing and using gorgeous colors and the ability to explore different
textures, effects and techniques with various yarns, fabrics and materials.
This book gives you all the ideas you will need to weave creatively and express yourself.
Wonderful inspiration from evryday life will get your imagination going on individual weaving
projects, and close-up photography will show you the finished effects in all their glory.
Life-size examples allow you to substitute your own yarn and materials to achieve comparable
results and step-by-step instructions teach all the weaving skills you'll need.
Elisabeth Kendrick and Sarah Howard have been enthusiastic wears since childhood.
As a creative partnership, Elisabeth has always had a passion for yarn and color, while Sarah's technical knowledge has helped solve practical design challenges.
Ursula's comment: This is a book about the way that I weave, using color, and texture.
Organic in its color theroy, it goes beyond what I do by incorporating recycled material
as well. It has excellant photgraphy and contains ideas that will make you want to finish
all your projects. The beginner's chapter is geared toward the rigid heddle loom but the
ideas can be used on any loom from beginner to advanced.
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