Weavecast

Do you dream of sewing beautifully fitted and custom garments out of your handwoven fabric? We talk to talented weaver and seamstress, Daryl Lancaster about the particular joys and challenges of sewing with handwoven fabric. In the end essay, “Uniquely Me” I describe my own tentative steps into the world of art-to-wear.

* Daryl Lancaster’s web site

* Monographs by Daryl Lancaster

* Uniquely You dress forms

* HGA Design Fashion ChallengeMusical Guest

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“More Than You Seem” by Causeway

When you think of weaving in colonial times, do you imagine a farm wife sitting by the fire, weaving on her home loom? Come learn the truth about weaving in early America from noted weaver and historian, Marje Thompson. Then we talk with Fireside Fiberarts a modern-day loom manufacturer who uses custom wood carvings to bring old-world charm to their looms. In the end essay, “Finishing Matters,” I talk about a little problem I’m having with my weaving, and the reason I envy eighteenth-century weavers.

* Hem-stitching instructions

* Boston Weaver’s Guild

* Complex Weavers: Early Weaving Books and Manuscripts Study Group

* Fireside Looms

* Stanley Rill Woodcarver

Musical Guest

“Colonial Williamsburg” by Tris McCall

Tapestry weaving breaks weaving out of the grid and enables the artist to create pictorial representations in swaths of touchable color. Sarah Swett helps us get our arms around this simple-yet-complex art form, and shares many of her secrets of success. In the final essay, I share lessons I’ve learned from my attempts to learn tapestry.

* Sarah Swett’s website

* Kids Weaving: Projects for Kids of All Ages by Sarah Swett

* The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

* Archie Brennan tapestry loom plans

* Video interview of tapestry artist Barbara Heller

* Tapestry Weaving by Kirsten Glasbrook

* Tapestry Weaving: A Comprehensive Study Guide by Nancy Harvey

* Tapestry Handbook: The Next Generationby Carol K. Russell

Musical Guest

“Shapeshifter” by Man Bites God

This episode, WeaveCast goes to Alaska! Come with me behind the scenes to meet the muskox at the Large Animal Research Facility in Fairbanks. Sandy Garbowski, muskox wrangler, tells us about these fascinating animals and how their Qiviut is harvested and processed. We visit A Weaver’s Yarn, a weaving store in Fairbanks, Alaska. Then Della Chaney, a weaver of the Tlingit and Haida nations, shares her people’s traditions of weaving ceremonial hats and robes. Finally, we end up the episode, and 2007, with some weaving resolutions for the new year.

* Peter Collingwood’s Rug-Weaving Books as PDF Files (scroll down halfway)

* Heritage Spinning and Weaving

* Large Animal Research Station (LARS) 

* Online Qiviut Store at LARS

* Oomingmak Musk Ox Producers’ Co-operative

* Arctic Lace: Knitting Projects and Stories Inspired by Alaska’s Native Knitters

* A Weaver’s Yarn

* Alaska Native Heritage Center 

* Sealaska Heritage Institute

* Delia’s Winning Hat in Juried Show

* The Basketry Studio (sells cedar bark)

* Cheryl Samuel’s Home Page

* More Alaskan Artist Audio: Raven’s Tail, Chilkat, and Basket Weaving

Musical Guests

* “Aurora Borealis” by Technetium™

* “Alaska Song” by The Buffali

Escape the dreary fall days with visions of brightly painted middle-eastern bazaars. This month we talk about weaving knotted pile rugs. The inspirational Sara Lamb talks about using color in weaving and her latest passion for knotted-pile weaving. We review an instructional video Cut-Pile Rug Weaving with Arlo Duker. In the swatch of the day, I describe learning pile weaving from Judith MacKenzie McCuin. And finally, the ending essay: Weaving fast; weaving slow.

* Sara Lamb’s Web site

* Conference of Northern California Handweavers (CNCH) 

* Archie Brennan Loom Instructions

* Pacific Yurts 

* Victorian Video/Yarn Barn

* Cut-Pile Rug Weaving with Arlo Duker

* Small Looms Yahoo Group

* Schacht 9″ mini boat shuttle

* John C. Campbell Folk School

* Jana Trent: Square deal Weave-a-long

* The Techniques of Rug Weaving by Peter Collingwood

Musical Guests

* Afghan Sands by Incidental Fusion

* Christmas Tree Farm by Push Start Wagon

* Re-Gifting for the Holidays by The Alice Project

This episode we talk about the ways weavers are using their art to help others. We’ll hear the amazing story of the weaving program at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. I’ll share some thoughts about how twist affects winding a warp, and in today’s essay, Kate Jantz-Koprivnik tells the tale of a simple weaving project that turned into an eleven-day adventure.

* HGA Convergence

* HGA COE in Handweaving

* Convergence Camping Group

* Cotton Clouds

* Christa Knits

* Random Number Generator

* Knitting for Charity

* Harrisville Designs

* Seattle Weavers’ Guild

* Seattle Children’s Hospital

Musical Guest

“Help us do Enough” by The Aphrodisiacs from their album This is a Campaign

This episode we explore the rich weaving traditions of Scotland. We journey to the John C. Campbell folk school during Scottish Heritage Week and meet two amazing weavers: Marjorie Warren and Barbara Miller. Then we hear the thrilling story of the Kilbarchan project, a research initiative to preserve undocumented historical Scottish weaves. Finally, I share my experiences learning to weave tartans and tweeds.

* Eric Nylund’s Web site

* John C. Campbell Folk School

* Just Our Yarn

* Tartan Authority

* Celtic Women International’s Tartan

* Tartan Generator Software

* Mitchell Clan Tartan

Musical Guests

* “Old Fashioned Morphine” by Jolie Holland

* “Celtic Canadian Cowboy” by Celtic Canadian Cowboy

* “Celtic Mystic” by Tigertail

* “Drowsy Maggie” by Celtic Stone

This episode we’re talking about weaving traditions, both cultural and personal. We’ll hear from Viridiana Chavez in Oxaca, Mexico talk about Zapotec weaving traditions. Sigrid Piroch tells us about Annie Albers and the Bauhaus movemont, and shares her experiences with Sloviakian textile traditions. Rebekkah of Bowerbird Knits tells how weaving on a bead loom connected her to the tradition of man-made art. In the ending essay, we’ll discuss personal weaving traditions, and why sometimes, it’s good to break them.

* Lone Star Loom Room (aka Nordic Studio)

* Mexican Weaving Retreat

* Allegheny River Textile ARTS Studio

* The Magic of Handweaving by Sigrid Piroc

* Complex Weavers

* Bowerbird Knits (Rebekkah’s Blog)

* Quirky Nomads (Sage’s Podcast)

Musical Guests

* “Oca la Mujer” by Karisma de Montes

* “Czardas” by Blue Jar

This episode, we explore the synthesis of handweaving and electronics. We’ll review an automated pirn winder designed by John Stegmuller, talk with Laura MacCary, an innovative weaver who weaves electronic components that interact with the viewer. Finally, I’ll describe an unexpected lesson learned from weaving on a computer-controlled loom.

* Laura MacCary’s Web Page

* dorkbot

* Talk Stories from Maui, by Wilma Stegmuller

* John Stegmuller’s Olympic Pirn Winder

* Rugs of War

* Random Stripe Generator 

* Arizona Archive of Weaving Books

* “Life-Saving Textiles” article in the 3/07 edition of Vävmagasinet 

Musical Guest

* “Brand New Theremin” and “Unraveled” by Randall Cousins

This episode is all about those wonderful weaving periodicals that inspire and delight us. We talk to Madelyn Van Der Hoogt of Handwoven, Jean Scorgie of Weaver’s Craft, and Tina Ignell of Vävmagasinet. We discuss a summer reading list of fiction books that feature weavers, ask for your thoughts about an online weaving magazine, and finally, I share the details of my torrid summer love affair.

* ColorCache4

* Handwoven

* The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers by Madelyn van der Hoogt

* Weaver’s Craft

* Vävmagasinet

* Favorite Rag Rugs by Tina Ignell

* Australian Hand Weaver and Spinner

* Journal for Weavers Spinners & Dyers

* Complex Weaver’s Journal

* Twist

* Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot

Weaving Fiction

* Wintersmith by Terry Prachett

* Avielle of Rhia by Dia Calhoun

* The Last Mortal Man by Syne Mitchell

* Silas Marner by George Eliot

* Pelle’s New Suit by Elsa Beskow

* Sophie’s Masterpiece by Eileen Spinelli and Jane Dyer

Musical Guest

“Blue Summer Day” from Blue Summer Day by