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MARCH/APRIL 2007, VOLUMEXXVIII, NUMBER2
31 AROSEBYANYOTHERNAME. . . ISASNOWBALL?by Lynn Tedder
32 FOR STARTERS OVERSHOTFORRUGSby Tom Knisely
36 ELEGANTBOOKMARKS: MINIATUREOVERSHOTANDFINETHREADSby Syne Mitchell
40 VERSATILEMINIATURESINLEE’SSURRENDERby Karen Homann
44 WEEKEND WEAVER CUSTOMCHECKBOOKCOVERINCONTEMPORARYOVERSHOT
by Liz Good
48 RIBBONSOFOVERSHOTFORASOFTSPRINGSHAWL
by Rita Hagenbruch
52 OVERSHOTGETSAMAKEOVER:
IT’SALLABOUTCOLOR
by Yvonne Stahl
56 FIESTACLOTH: COLORINGBYNUMBERS
Leslie Killeen
60 FROMOVERSHOTTODOUBLEWEAVE
THEEASYWAYby Robert Owen
64 LABELLECREOLEFORARUNNERANDNAPKINSby DeeDee Woodbury
68 WOVENSHIBORI: OVERSHOTONTHEEDGEby Catharine Ellis
72 NAMEDRAFTSFOROVERSHOTBORDERSby Susan Horton
76 OURWEAVINGDIVAS: ATRIBUTEby Karen Donde
78 HANDWOVEN’S FABRIC FORECAST FASHIONSFORFALL/WINTER’07–’08
by Daryl Lancaster with illustrations by Jessica Levinson
2 From the Editor 24 News and Views
4 What’s Going On 83 Calendar
6 Letters and Corrections 88 Product News
14 Getting Started: 89 Classified Ads
ON THE COVER
OVERSHOT SCARF Beginner’s Corner 95 Advertisers’ Index
IN SILK AND WOOL
Yarn and Suppliers’ List 96 Endnotes:
woven by Yvonne Stahl.
Syne Mitchell of
Project Guide
See pages 52–54.
Weavecast.com
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FROMTHE EDITOR Madelyn van der Hoogt
VOLUME XXVIII
MARCH/APRIL 2007
Some days there is an elephant in my office. He’s here today and he’s called Let- EDITORIAL
ter from the Editor. That’s why I’m busy removing the plastic pads under my of- EDITOR IN CHIEFMadelyn van der Hoogt
Liz Gipson
fice chairs and using a little steel wool and lemon oil to smooth out the scratch- MANAGING EDITOR
Daryl Lancaster
CONTRIBUTING FEATURE EDITOR
es on the cherry floor underneath them. CONTRIBUTING EDITORBobbie Irwin
Diane Kelly, Lynn Tedder
I’m not a procrastinator. I make lists and I do what’s on them. Iespecially like check- TECHNICAL EDITORS
Judy Berndt
COPY EDITOR
ing things off. I usually do the fun and/or easy things first. If my list says: Clean garage, Judy Berndt
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Write article, Train dog, Write thank-you notes, Exercise, Go to grocery store, I’ll be CREATIVE SERVICES
Elizabeth R. Mrofka
in the car and on my way in the blink of an eye. DESIGNER
Trish Faubion
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR
Sometimes there is an item on my list that I really don’t want to do. It’s either too Jeff Rowles
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
hard or it requires too many sub-steps that are not actually listed. Examples might be: PRODUCTION EDITORNancy Arndt
Joe Coca
PHOTOGRAPHY
Remodel kitchen. Landscape yard. Even Warp loom. In fact, a task as small as Change Ann Swanson
PHOTOSTYLING
sheets has more to it than the simple verb Change implies. But you don’t usually write
PUBLISHING
on your list: Take off first pillowcase, take off second pillowcase, take off top sheet, PUBLISHERMarilyn Murphy
Sharon Altergott
etc., though now that I think of it, I’d be tempted to do this so there would be more ADVERTISING MANAGER
Bruce Hallmark
E-MEDIA MANAGER
items to check off. MARKETING MANAGERLaura Levaas
Bob Kaslik
If there is something big and hard on my list that absolutely has to be done and has CIRCULATION DIRECTOR
Barbara Naslund
CIRCULATION MANAGERS
a deadline imposed from the outside (unlike Remodel kitchen), I become highly en- Jodi Smith
ergized at doing everything else on the list. The elephant is invisible to me as I effi-
Handwoven(ISSN 0198-8212) is published bi-
ciently check off the other tasks item by item. If Warp ten looms is on my list to get monthly except July/August (five issues per year)
them ready for a class that is about to arrive, I can be found making beautiful arrange- by Interweave Press LLC, 201 E. Fourth St.,
Loveland, CO 80537-5655, [phone].
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are copyrighted by Interweave Press LLC, 2007.
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for inspiration and personal use only. Handwoven
to do than the other things on my list. Then their task would become the elephant I pre-
does not recommend, approve or endorse any of
tend not to see, and in order not to do whatever they gave me, I would get all the other the advertisers, products, services or views
advertised in Handwoven.Nor does Handwoven
tasks done. It would have to turn out, of course, that I didn’t really have to do theirs.
evaluate the advertisers’ claims in any way. You
For my current list, another wish I always have was granted for the first time. After seven should, therefore, use your own judgment in
years of regular visits to my office by the Letter from the Editor elephant, magazine proofs evaluating the advertisers, products, services and
views advertised in Handwoven.Reproduction in
were marooned in Indianapolis by a snowstorm, postponing the ever-before immutable go- whole or in part is prohibited, except by
to-press date for two whole days. This means my office floor is scratch free, but I’ve been permission of the publisher. Subscription rate is
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loom one time and weave a variety of different pieces) For sales information, call [phone], e-mail
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LETTERS
Words From Our Readers
A WEIGHTY QUESTION itinerary, and several of my weaving stu- I’m also very tired of receiving the re-
Thanks for the great January/Febru- dents were here to give them a guided newal notices in the mail. Why do you
ary 2007 issue. Because I live on an island tour and provide a potluck dinner. The continue to waste money on those notices?
and there are only one or two other two translators were kept very busy by our —Mary Robinson
weavers here, I rely on Handwovenfor in- chatter. via e-mail
spiration. I was looking for scarf ideas to The Uzbeks enjoyed exploring new
Isympathize with your feelings about renewal
start off the new year and there they were: taste treats, puzzling over how our looms
notices! Their frequency is a marketing prac-
Gudrun Polak’s Starry Scarf and Stefanie work, and examining our handwoven tex-
tice followed by most magazines—because it
Meisel’s and Madelyn van der Hoogt’s de- tiles on display. The American weavers
works. So that I can ignore the notices for
flected doubleweave scarves. All three ar- were equally enthralled with the lovely
the magazines I subscribe to, I keep a list by
ticles made me get out my drafting paper embroidery, ikats, and silk-pile carpets the
my computer of all their expiration dates. I
and start working! Uzbeks showed us.
throw away the renewal notices unopened
I have a question regarding Ms. Polak’s One delightful moment occurred as
until the renewal date draws near.
use of sewing thread to secure the edges and an embroidery was about to be sold and
—Madelyn
of fishing line to make weft fringe. Do these it was found to be missing the Uzbek’s
threads have to be wound on a separate logo of the pomegranate. The master dyer
beam? It seems they must, as their stretch who was present studied the piece, de- RESOURCEFUL WEAVER
I’m happy to read that you will now
would be less than that of the wool/silk in cided where to place the logo, sketched
be indicating when a book is out of print.
the body of the scarf. the design with a pencil, and an embroi-
I am a corporate librarian as well as a
—Jean Bartos derer produced a needle and silk thread
weaver, knitter, and spinner. I have a sug-
Ketchikan, Alaska and embroidered it on the spot!
gestion for a source for those out-of-print
It was also fun to visit with them
The sewing threads can be wound on the same books—the interlibrary loan service of
again a few days later in Northampton.
beam as the wool/silk warp. Tension is not a your local public or academic library. If
This is how to develop world peace!
problem for one scarf, but if you warp for you give the librarian as much informa-
—Norma Smayda
more than one, you might have to add weight tion as you can about a particular book
Saunderstown, Rhode Island
to looser threads. The monofilament floating or article you want, they can search a
selvedges are weighted but not beamed. massive database that lists books and se-
TOO MUCH MAIL! rials and the libraries that own them.
I haven’t had a subscription to Hand-
They can request the material you want
wovenfor many years. In 2006, I decided
A WEAVERLY PEACE and have it sent to your library. Some li-
I enjoyed reading the article about to subscribe again, but I haven’t been
braries do charge a fee for the service, but
the Uzbek weavers in the November/De- happy with my issues. I think I will go
it is usually not large.
cember 2006 issue of Handwoven(News back to purchasing the issues that interest
In the case of the book, Of Coverlets,
and Views, page 29). When they visited me on the newsstand. My disappointment
for example, I found that a small number
the United States, the Saunderstown is due to the way you pick one subject and
of libraries own the book. It is up to the
Weaving School was included in their do it to death!
loaning library whether they will loan the
book out or not, but you don’t know until
you try. Another site to try for books is
DOUBLE DOUP
Thanks to Marvelyn Albert for www.addall.com. It lists used booksellers
her very clear instructions for weaving who may have the book you are looking
a doup leno shawl. Her article inspired for along with price, shipping cost, and
me to weave a shawl using a dark red availability.
silk warp and some mohair that I —Mary Ellen McMurtrie
hadn’t been sure what to do with. The via e-mail
only problem I had is that my fingers
were too thick to tie a flat knot with TEXTILE EDUCATION PAYS OFF
The College of Marin in Kentfield,
only an inch of thread, so I had to re-
N
O California, has closed their weaving
DS cut all my doups to make them a little
AR program and sold all the looms and equip-
H longer! The resulting shawl is very
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AP icated weavers attended classes there.
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CORRECTIONS
CANINE COUTURE
Many thanks to
Ruth Morrison for JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2007
her inspiring article In Sheila O’Hara’s letter to the edi-
in the September/ tor (page 6): Sheila and her husband
October 2006 issue of moved fromthe San Francisco Bay
Handwoven (pages area in 2000, not toit.
64–67). I wove a coat In Anne Field’s article “Dévoré for
for my best friend of Handwoven Scarves”: In Step 1,
more than eleven page 46, the warp should be 23⁄ yd
4
years. He is an Amer- long instead of 21⁄.
2
ican Cocker Spaniel
named Señor Sal-
California College of the Arts (they
vadore Dali.
dropped “craft” from their name), and San
The instructions
Francisco City College continue to offer
in the article were very easy to follow. I especially appreciated the section on “Fitting
weaving classes with high academic stan-
the coat to your dog.” I was able to complete the entire project over a weekend.
dards. The de Young Museum’s Textile
My teacher, Mrs. Alice Griswold of East Lansing, Michigan (see pages 76–77 for
Arts Council is filled with people who ap-
more about Alice), provided guidance and feedback. —Alka Indurkhya
preciate fine weaving, both historic and
via e-mail
contemporary, and the San Jose Museum
of Quilts and Textiles is hosting The
in a sheltered workshop warping looms. tainly paid off. Now I spin and edit local American Tapestry Alliance Silver An-
There were twenty-four looms to keep in textile newsletters. niversary and Biennial exhibit.
operation, and I held that job only on my On the bright side, Mendocino —Susan Sullivan Maynard
ability to warp! My college training cer- College, San Francisco State University, Brisbane, California
Pastimes
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