Handwoven clothing

Here is another version of the wonderful pattern from Get Weaving # DR006, made this time from a linen and wool fabric woven on the 20″ (50cm) rigid heddle loom. The weft is a singles yarn, s…

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Every loom has its limits, but that needn’t stop you from making attractive handwoven garments.

Two days of sewing classes creating garments from Saori hand woven cloth this week. Leigh ann Brought her Amazing weavings she wove on her SAORI WX60 LOOM here. Leigh Anne started weaving and sewing coming to the studio to explore fiber arts for the first time not quite 2 years ago. You can go back in my blogs a couple of years to see her progression, but from the first yardage she brought to sewing class to design I knew she was a becoming a talented weaver ! In saori we piece our narrower…

Learn about the history of sakiori weaving and how it relates to modern-day rag weaving.

Welcome Dawn to Saori Santa Cruz designing and sewing clothing class! Lets look at how this progression class went from hand woven cloth to jacket Here is Dawn's happy hand woven fabric she wove Saori style and brought to class in her luggage from Canada . I had the studio all ready for cutting and sewing and trying on…. Dozens of muslins to try and finished garments as well for ideas….. Dawn confess that in her soaking stage of her finished cloth she some how felted part of it . …. you can…

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Here are a few highlights of my process. The main problems with handwoven fabric come from its loose and unstable state compared to store-b...