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Let's start with just one draft, because -- while these principles can apply to many designs -- let's just look at a point-twill design, which happens to be one of my favorite weaving patterns.

It's a historic 14-shaft draft, fondly known as "The Earl," derived from a tablecloth that was used as the canvas for a 1626 painting of the Earl of Mar in Scotland. (To read the...


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 Last month's blog post promoted a workshop I'm teaching in April in Bucks County, PA, on how to weave a "Harriet Tubman Shawl."

Here, once again, is a photo of the scarf (as seen in last month's post). It honors the heroism of Harriet Tubman, who spent her last years in Auburn, NY,  near where I live. She was photographed at least a couple of times during tho...


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