Weaving Books — Texts

Ashford Book of Weaving for the Four Shaft Loom by Field. Anne

The versatile four-shaft loom is popular with beginners and experienced craftspeople. Here award-winning weaver and teacher, Anne Field has written a comprehensive text specifically for this loom. It covers planning a warp, pattern drafting, weaving techniques and fourteen innovative projects. Projects in this book include: Two scarves, six tablemats, two cushions, upholstery fabric, surface-weave fabric, cotton jacket, stole, cocoon jacket, crossover shawl, overshot runner, weft-face hanging, tapestry hanging, warp-face hanging and double-width knee rug.

Price: $29.00
UPC: 9781877427015
Qty in Stock: 5

Book of Looms by Broudy, Eric

This book presents a comprehensive history of handlooms and gives clear descriptions of how they work. Chapters are organized according to the chronological evolution of weaving equipment, from early horizontal ground looms and warp-weighted looms to backstrap and other primitive looms to the Chinese drawloom, the European drawloom, the Jacquard loom, and finally, to "modern" looms for handweavers, such as jack and countermarch looms.

Price: $28.95
UPC: 9780874516494
Qty in Stock: 3

Color and Fiber by Lambert, Patricia, Barbara Staepelaere, and Mary G

Color and Fiber presents, for the first time, a concise and accessible explanation of color as related to fiber. This text is extensively illustrated using both color and black & white photography as well as line drawings. As well as their own work , the author's have included examples from artists like Helena Hernmarck to illustrate their explanations. The book also includes an extensive index, bibliography and glossary making it an excellent reference work for any artist working with color.

Price: $49.50
UPC: 3851
Qty in Stock: 5

Color by Design by Ann Johnston

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Price: $29.95
UPC: 9780965677615
Qty in Stock: 4

Color Harmony Workbook by Rockport

This workbook is a practical, visual guide that takes the guesswork out of choosing and using color combinations. An essential tool for all who design with color, including 1400 color combinations and a helpful set of large color swatches.

Price: $19.99
UPC: 4609
Qty in Stock: 0

ColorWorks by Menz, Deb

By Deb Menz. We all love color-its boundless array of hues dazzles our eyes, expresses our moods, and enriches our very lives. This is the first book to bring the principles of color theory down to a practical level and apply them to knitting, spinning, weaving, surface design, hand- and machine-embroidery, beadwork, quilting, and paper collage. Basic color concepts are presented in sections on color description, values, contrasting and complementary colors, warm and cool colors, undertones, using color relationships, and much more.

Price: $24.95
UPC: 9781931499477
Qty in Stock: 2

Complex Weavers Greatest Hits

Eighty-eight members from twenty-six U.S. States, five Canadian provinces, and four other countries contributed to this endeavor. The designs range from tape weaves to a profile threading that requires 114 blocks. Whether your preference is huck lace or satin, you will find ideas here to encourage and expand your weaving abilities. Included is a CD-ROM that contains drafts and demonstration programs.

Price: $29.95
UPC: 3167
Qty in Stock: 1

Exploring Multishaft Design by Inouye, Bonnie

The simple threadings and intricate treadlings and tie-ups that computers and dobby looms allows us to explore are the foundations of this study. Dazzling twill structures, double-weaves, and spot weaves are the starting point. Dobby looms and computers are tools in this study, but the section on developing these ideas for standard multi-shaft looms makes this a remarkable textbook for multi-shaft weavers.

Price: $29.95
UPC: 9780967848907
Qty in Stock: 6

Finishing Touches for the Handweaver by West, Virginia

The right finishing touch can mean as much to a piece of weaving as the right frame for a picture. This book shows how to make and add handles to bags, how to join widths of handwoven materials, how to make and secure decorative fringes, how to warp the end of braids and miter corners, using embroidery techniques as finishing touches, and so on. The ideas and instructions are very clear and complete.

Price: $19.95
UPC: 5308
Qty in Stock: 0

Geometric Design in Weaving by Regensteiner, Else

Else Regensteiner's books are always inspiring, and this one is no exception. It abounds with photos of well-designed geometric pieces in a wide variety of techniques. She spends time discussing design, shapes, devices, and systems for design, weaver controlled techniques for rugs, tapestries, and pick-up and several loom controlled techniques. 222 pages, illustrated in black & white and color.

Price: $29.95

Huck Pattern Collection by Ciaranello, Rita

A transcription of a huck collection purchased from funds donated by the members of the Weavers' Guild of Boston in the Spring of 1995. Consisting of 31 folders with approximately 350 woven samples, most of which are woven with white 20/2 cotton.

Price: $22.95
UPC: 173176
Qty in Stock: 4

Learning to Weave by Deborah Chandler

Since its first printing in the mid 80's, this book has become the standard text both for teachers and self-taught weavers. The author's friendly presence is constantly with you. She covers all the basics. Then follows with some fundamental weave structures, block theory, drawdowns, choosing yarns, buying a loom, troubleshooting, finishing, and more. This revised edition adds an important chapter on warping back-to-front and updated resource lists.

Price: $27.95
UPC: 9781883010034
Qty in Stock: 11

On weaving by Albers. Anni

A weaver/artist with an international reputation, Ms Albers first presented this study of weaving in 1963. Her discussion ranges all over the world, looking at many styles of weaving looms, different structures, fibers, and design sources. Although her main oeuvre was art weaving, her interest in weaving lore and handwoven fabric are evident in her writing and the accompanying illustrations, weave pattern diagrams, and historic photos.

Price: $19.95
UPC: 0075943192
Qty in Stock: 2

Overshot Is Hot! (Best of Weavers) by van d, Madelyn

With more than 30 of the best overshot projects compiled from 20 years of Weaver's magazine and Prairie Wool Companion, this weaver�s reference combines step-by-step instructions with weaving theory. Such projects as heirloom linens, traditional coverlets, and colorful modern applications for scarves, table toppers, and wall hangings are presented, covering everything a crafter needs to know to design fabulous fabrics in overshot and its cousin star-and-diamond weave. Both beginners and advanced weavers working on at least four-shaft looms will delight in the projects provided.

Price: $28.95
UPC: 9781933064116
Qty in Stock: 10

Reflections from a Flaxen Past:

See old textiles and flax tools in use, meet the new generation of Lithuanian weavers, and learn their techniques. Enrich your linen weaving success with easy and innovative methods all found within.

Price: $48.00
UPC: 9780970064806
Qty in Stock: 3

Shaker Towels for the 21st Century by Erf, Mary Elva Congleton

Shaker Towels for the 21st Century is an indispensable reference for weaving fine linen and cotton yarns. The author's research and analysis of Shaker Textiles at Pleasant Hill. KY; Canterbury, NH; Sabbathday Lake, Maine; Hancock Shaker Village, MA; Winterthur Museum, Delaware, and many other collections led to methods for reproducing linen and cotton towels of the 19th century using materials available today. Many weavers participated in making these reproduction towels, and in the process they discovered techniques for successful weaving with fine linens and cottons. This book has directions for 40 of these reproduction towels with helpful comments from the many weavers who wove them. Today one may view these reproduction towels at the following Shaker Villages: Canterbury, NH; Hancock, MA; and Pleasant Hill, KY. Webs is the exclusive retailer for this book.

Price: $70.00
UPC: 9780976819202
Qty in Stock: 203

Tapestry Handbook by Russell, Carol

Price: $59.95
UPC: 9780764327568
Qty in Stock: 7

The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers by VanDerHoogt, Madelyn

Under one cover find the steps for drafting and weaving any profile design in any unit weave as well as extras like color-and-weave, blended drafts, turned drafts, network drafting, and fabric analysis. Learn to use drafting tools, warp and weft drawdowns, warp and weft cross sections, block profile drafts, and how to design with pattern weaves. Beginner and advanced weavers will refer to it as a constant resource.

Price: $23.95
UPC: 9780916658519
Qty in Stock: 3

The Gartner Manuscript by Valk, Gene Elizabeth

Featuring the drawdowns from the Gartner manuscript by Joseph Gartner.

Price: $35.95
UPC: 173175
Qty in Stock: 2

The Magic of Handweaving by Piroch, Sigrid

Sigrid Piroch is an experienced weaver who leads readers on a journey through the world of cloth. She will guide you through the beginning stages of weaving, from planning and designing, to the final stages, when the beautiful piece of cloth is ready to take off the loom.

Price: $23.99
UPC: 046081003844
Qty in Stock: 7

The Weavers Draft Book and Clothiers Assistant by Hargrove, John

A facsimile reproduction of the original edition 1792 American Antiquarian Society

Price: $18.95
UPC: 9780971760509
Qty in Stock: 7

This is How I Go When I Go Like This by Ligon, Linda

These essays trace the ups and downs, the joys and trials, the people and events of the world of handweaving and of Handwoven magazine. The collection's extraordinary pleasures involve textiles and language equally, whether the author is exploring what it means to have a "loom-shaped life" or asking the questions "What's warp, what's weft." "What are the interlacements?"

Price: $21.95
UPC: 9780934026260
Qty in Stock: 3

Warping Your Loom and Tying on New Warps by Osterkamp, Peggy

Here's a book that answers a beginner's every question about warping and at the same time acts as a timeless resource for experienced weavers. Osterkamp teaches the European method of working from back to front to put on a warp that is smoothly beamed and perfectly tensioned. The profuse diagrams are clear and easy to follow.

Price: $39.95
UPC: 4282
Qty in Stock: 10

Weaver's Companion by Ligon

Let this small, sturdy, spiral-bound volume keep track of the details. It's all here: sett and sleying charts, formulas for calculating warp and weft, fiber identification tests, basic weave drafts, finishing techniques, fiber factoids, a must-have gray scale, design shortcuts, and much, much, more!

Price: $19.95
UPC: 9781883010812
Qty in Stock: 12

Weaving a Life: The Story of Mary Meigs Atwater by Reiter, Mary Jo

From her years as an art student in Paris at the end of the 19th Century to the day she became a "walking arsenal" to ferry guns across the Mexican border to the start of her handweaving business in Basin, Montana, Mary Atwater left provocative records of a woman's life in America. Weaving a Life combines biography, autobiography, and photographs to tell the striking story of this influential American handweaver.

Price: $16.95
UPC: 9780934026772
Qty in Stock: 3

Weaving for Worship by Harter, Joyce and Lucy Brusic

As textiles artists look at the history of their various crafts, a fact emerges that the most intricate and meaningful fabrics made by humans around the world are those used for worship. This is a book that shows the work of modern weavers and other textile artists who create fabric so well made, so full of meaning, so beautiful that just its gallery is inspiring.

Price: $45.00
UPC: 3637
Qty in Stock: 1

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Barber, Elizabeth Wayland

Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibres. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods to show that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient and early modern worlds, with their own industry: fabric.

Price: $17.95
UPC: 9780393313482
Qty in Stock: 2

Woven: A Bauhaus Memoir by Work Hokanson, Suzanne

Anna's thoughtful examination of her life as a young woman at an innovative art institution during a chaotic time, tells the story of not only her life, but the life of Bauhaus and Germany between the wars.

Price: $22.95
UPC: 9781933994024
Qty in Stock: 0