Wearable Handwoven Art on Any Loom

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Wearable Handwoven Art on Any Loom: Weaving Wearable Fabrics & Accessories with Handspun & Commercial Art & Novelty Yarns

© Lisa Rayner / Lisa Rayner Books / Lisa Rayner Handwovens
ISBN 979-8-9879697-4-8

Ideas and projects for handwoven wearables from a longtime weaver who learned how to spin yarn & showcase handspun art yarn and commercial novelty yarn in fabrics.

If you’ve seen Lisa’s Instagram blog Lisa Rayner Handwovens, you’ve seen photographs from some of the handwoven clothing and accessories in this book.

This eBook has 26 pages and more than 10 project inspirations. Part one is about creative techniques, fully illustrated. The second half of the book has project details, including:

Pampa Loom Flow Vest (a frame loom-shaped garment)
Purple Neon Chunky Scarf (rigid heddle)
Aegean Sea Scarf (rigid heddle or shaft loom)
Plum Wrap (rigid heddle or shaft loom)
Silk Rainbow Supercoiled Scarf (rigid heddle or shaft loom)
Red Rainbow Eyelash Yarn Scarf (rigid heddle, shaft or backstrap loom)
Red Ruana with macramé detailing (eight shaft pattern, modifiable)
Sakiori Rep Weave Coat (rigid heddle or shaft loom)
Caribbean Ribbon shawl (rigid heddle or shaft loom)
Hand sewn clothing using fabric with handspun cotton yarn
Handwoven fabrics made with commercial cotton flake yarns
and related yarns like bouclé

Handspun yarns and commercial novelty yarns are highly popular today. New weavers are arriving from the worlds of spinning, knitting and crochet, using frame looms, pin looms, rigid heddle looms and shaft looms to weave their handspun yarn into fabric.

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Lisa learned how to weave as a child using traditional plain cotton and wool weaving yarns that are suitable for both warp and weft. Knowing the traditional weaving rules for durable fabrics, they experiment with breaking those rules, thoughtfully, to showcase special yarn in fabrics for clothing and accessories that are truly wearable and functional. Lisa’s experience provides a unique perspective on incorporating art yarns into fabric.

Lisa is a disabled, former spinner who weaves with worsted to chunky yarn. They bundle thinner stash yarns into warp and weft ends with four or more strands. Lisa uses handspun supercoiled yarn, lockspun yarn and more in my wearables. Texture has become much more important, so art yarns are now more important.

Art and novelty yarns have long been used by modern weavers in the weft. I have tips for weft, such as custom sheds that accommodate and display chunky supercoils prominently. Lisa often uses yarns not traditionally considered suitable for warp in warps. Sometimes such yarns are the main warp yarn. The eBook explains some weaving techniques and weaving hacks Lisa developed that both display and protect art yarn in handwoven fabric meant for clothing and accessories. It describes more than 10 weaving projects in detail, including original weaving notes on materials, sett, width, length, sewing tips, and more.

Lisa sells technique and pattern eBooks using other techniques, such as freeform overshot and leno and Spanish lace.

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