Category: Tutorials
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Instant textures and getting bobbins working for you
Saori bobbins are so adaptable and are the basis for weaving ideas…especially if you’ve run out of ideas.
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Add wonder with two shuttle weaving
Two shuttles for weaving add yet another dimension of possibilities to your weaving.
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Puckered Edges
Using multiple fibres in our Saori work is a delightfully, risky activity.
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Make a Saori Cushion Cover
I often get asked about cushions and how to make them with Saori cloth. Generally any cushion approach will work with Saori Cloth. My favourite is the cushion with a zip in it for easy care. But some people prefer not to muck around with zips and sew an envelope cushion. You’ll need a little…
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Pulling Warps
The magic of weaving cloth doesn’t have to stop when the warp runs out. This technique is a simple and fun one that allows you to change the original sett of the weaving to make it a lighter and more drapeable cloth and also to make the edges speak more or soften them.
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Seaming up to wear
For those of you who have been weaving in the Saori way for a while, you may have quite a bit of fabric ready to turn into a wearable. You may even get to the ‘another scarf and I’ll scream’ situation. Please, I’m not rebelling against scarves! I love them and I think they are…
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Make a Huipil inspired Maya top
I think I take my sewing skills for granted. And I image everyone else has the same skills. But increasingly, because we haven’t had to make our own clothes, we don’t need those skills. I understand that others have more valuable skills to earn money. But to make your own clothes…that’s a freedom. To weave…
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The Lozenge technique
There are so many different techniques which can be used in ‘plain’ weave cloth which forms the basis of Saori weaving. Many woven tapestry techniques can be modified to build into cloth which is suitable for drape-able clothing. My biggest inspiration from the tapestry world is Coptic woven tapestry. They used eccentric weaving to create…
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The ‘pinch’ technique
Saori inspired weaving offers a real insight into the weaving process and how our human connection with it can be developed in very unique ways. For example, does an edge have to be an edge and how? You can really weave in any way you want to on a loom. You don’t have to know…