Weaving & Drafting Your Own Cloth by Peggy Osterkamp

In Book 3 of the series Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide Weaving guides you through every step from weaving motions, shuttles and selvedges to finishing your cloth. When problems come your way, an extensive chapter on troubleshooting helps you through them. The drafting chapter explains how to create your own designs as well as to use drafts in books and magazines. It is written for novice and experienced weavers and teachers, and especially for those weavers who think they will never understand drafting. Step-by-step summaries at the ends of chapters provide quick reference at the loom, over 365 illustrations, and a comprehensive 17-page index help you visualize every detail and find every solution. Having Peggy’s books at your loom is like having a patient teacher at your side.

Series: Book 3 in the series Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide to Weaving: A guide that makes weaving fun with new techniques from European handweavers and the textile industry.

Edition: 3rd 2005

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0963779397

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0963779397

Number of pages: 267

©Peggy Osterkamp 2005. All rights reserved. At-home printing of the downloaded files for personal use by the purchaser is allowed. Any kind of sharing without express written permission is forbidden.

Contents

Introduction v
Preliminaries 1
1 Weaving 11
2 Shuttles and winding bobbins, prins, and balls 47
3 Selvedges 77
4 Troubleshooting: When you begin weaving 107
Troubleshooting: Broken Warp Threads 126
Troubleshooting: While Weaving Along 133
5 Finishing 157
6 Drafting 207
Drafting: Fabric Analysis 228
Drafting: The Basics of Multi-shaft Weaving 236
Sources 247
Bibliography 249
Index 251

About the author

Peggy Osterkamp, once an apprentice to renowned loommaker Jim Ahrens in a production weaving studio, has since introduced hundreds of students to the time-tested techniques of handweaving. She is a natural teacher with a knack for making the richness of her training and decades of experience accessible to all, a life-long textile scholar, and an artist who exhibits her work internationally. Follow her at www.peggyosterkamp.com

Also by Peggy Osterkamp

 Weaving for Beginners: an Illustrated Guide

From beginners to advanced weavers and teachers, this indispensable handbook and textbook is a must-have on every weaver’s bookshelf.

 Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide Weaving, a 3-part in-depth series on advanced weaving techniques

No. 1: Winding a Warp & Using a Paddle

No. 2: Warping Your Loom & Tying on New Warps

No. 3: Weaving & Drafting Your Own Cloth

DVD: Warping the Loom Back to Front