In today's video, Maggie Ayres talks about how she uses stitching as mark in her work.
I have featured several of Maggie's videos in the past:
Inspiration from digitally altered images
Artists Access to Art Colleges
Texture Without Colour
Maggie Ayres: textile and mixed media artwork
Showing posts with label fiber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiber. Show all posts
Drop Spindle Basics
Today's video is an instructional one by Abby Franquemont . If you have ever fancied learning how to spin yarn with a drop spindle, this might be a good place to start.
I don't know why I haven't looked for drop spindle videos before. As a woodturner I have often been asked if I make drop spindles, and I have looked at the idea several times but never taken the plunge. Anyway, thanks to my friend Bobbi Chukran who suggested this video for the reminder.
I don't know why I haven't looked for drop spindle videos before. As a woodturner I have often been asked if I make drop spindles, and I have looked at the idea several times but never taken the plunge. Anyway, thanks to my friend Bobbi Chukran who suggested this video for the reminder.
Tablet weaving silk
Today's video by Michael Cook shows the process of winding silk and using 'card' or 'tablet' weaving to make it into a ribbon bookmark.
Learn more about silk, silk worms and silk moths at Micheal's website wormspit.com.
Learn more about silk, silk worms and silk moths at Micheal's website wormspit.com.
Tatting demo
Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace constructed by a series of knots and loops. The lace is formed by a pattern of rings and chains formed from a series of lark's head knots, called double stitches, over a core thread. Gaps can be left between the stitches to form picots, which are used for practical construction as well as decorative effect. Read more at Wikipedia.
This is one of three short videos on how to do tatting stitches.
Be sure to watch the other two videos.
here is a kit which contains a complete step-by-step needle tatting book, three needles size #7 fine, #5-0 and #3-0 and a needle threader. The technique used applies to any tatting system:
This is one of three short videos on how to do tatting stitches.
Be sure to watch the other two videos.
here is a kit which contains a complete step-by-step needle tatting book, three needles size #7 fine, #5-0 and #3-0 and a needle threader. The technique used applies to any tatting system:
Green Mountain Rug Hooking School
Todays video, The Joys of Hooking, shows some hooked rugs from The Green Mountain Rug Hooking School.
Real Men Knit
This is a trailer for a DVD called Real Men Knit
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The full DVD features a documentary that focuses on men’s roles in knitting, past, present and future, a knitting lesson teaching how to make a knitted cap and interviews with male knitwear designers.
.The full DVD features a documentary that focuses on men’s roles in knitting, past, present and future, a knitting lesson teaching how to make a knitted cap and interviews with male knitwear designers.
Continental knitting
Lorilee Beltman, owner of City Knitting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, gives us a "Continental" knitting lesson courtesy of Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood, host of the CraftSanity podcast.
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