Conquering your color fears

One of the biggest challenges for weavers who want to design with color is fear of making mistakes. Errors waste time and materials, and making a mistake – especially if it ruins a project! – feels shameful to many people.

Here’s how to overcome the fear of making mistakes.

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Depth and shading: Intriguing people with your handwoven cloth

One way to make your handwoven cloth more intriguing is by using color to give it depth, making it look more three-dimensional. You can do this through your choice of yarn colors, weave structure, or other methods. Learn more in this article!

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Drawing attention and focus to your cloth: The secrets of saturation!

How do you weave projects that really stand out, that draw attention to themselves? Or, conversely, how do you weave elegant, understated pieces?

The secret to creating eye-catching handwoven cloth – and to drawing the eye to specific parts of your woven project – is careful use of saturated color.

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How to make your handwoven cloth more lively: Drama and contrast

Have you ever had a piece turn out feeling blah and boring – but you didn’t know how to fix it?

This article explains how to use color contrast to spice up your handwoven cloth.

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Why handwoven cloth transforms at a distance: Pattern scale and optical mixing

One of the curious things about handwoven cloth, particularly painted warps or cloth with large stripes of color, is that it can transform dramatically at a distance. Close up, the beautiful woven pattern, the pattern in your draft, is visible. But from a distance, the woven pattern almost disappears, leaving only the larger pattern of the color stripes or the painted warp.

What’s the mystery? How does this happen?

Let’s find out.

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