Heddlecraft® Index

As the number of Heddlecraft issues increase, knowing where to find a specific tip or technique, book review, or anything else becomes more challenging. 

​Here is a simple index organized by category so you can locate what you may be looking for.

Topics

• Advancing Twills – January/February 2016
• Corduroy and Velveteen – March/April 2016
• Shadow Weave – May/June 2016
• Atwater-Bronson Lace – July/August 2016
• Swivel – September/October 2016
• Doubleweave blocks – November/December 2016
• Plaited Twills – January/February 2017
• Honeycomb and Deflected Wefts – March/April 2017
• Double-faced Weaves – May/June 2017
• Overshot – July/August 2017
• Parallel Twills – September/October 2017
• Piqué and Matelassé – November/December 2017
• Bead Leno - January/February 2018
• Summer and Winter – March/April 2018
• Four-color Echo Weave - May/June 2018
• Huck Lace - July/August 2018
• Color-and-Weave - September/October 2018
• Overshot-patterned Doubleweave - November/December 2018
• Doup Leno - January/February 2019
• Network-drafted Twills - March/April 2019
• Wicked Good Weaving - May/June 2019
• Double Two-tie - July/August 2019
• More on Four - September/October 2019
• Beiderwand - November/December 2019
• Inlay and More - January/February 2020
• Deflected Double Weave - March/April 2020
• Turned Beiderwand - May/June 2020
• Wicked Good Weaving - Squares & Grids - July/August 2020
• Swedish Lace - Plain to Polychrome - September/October 2020
• Stitched Double Cloth - November/December 2020
• Ribbed & Corded Weaves - January/February 2021
• Corkscrew & Manifold Twills - March/April 2021
• Weaver-manipulated Lace Weaves - May/June 2021
• An Introduction to Crackle - July/August 2021
• Color & The Taming of the Hue - September/October 2021
• M's & O's (and Multiple Tabby) - November/December 2021
• Designing for Supplemental Warps - Issue #37
• Combining Weaves in the Warp for Wow! - Issue #38
• Double Diagonal Twills - Issue #39
• Tied Weaves - Beyond Summer & Winter - Issue #40
• A Taste for Crepe Weaves - Issue #41
• Talking Towels - Issue #42

Where We Learn to Weave

• Tri-Community Adult Education:  Weaving & Spinning (Covina, CA) – May/June 2016
• John C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown, NC) – May/June 2017
• Peters Valley School of Craft (Layton, NJ) – March/April 2018
• Gaelic College, Englishtown, Nova Scotia, Canada
• On-line opportunities and US/Canada map
• Eugene Textile Center - September/October 2019
• ARTSgarage - January/February 2021

Tips 'n Techniques

• How to weave a quick and easy header – January/February 2016
• How to create a multi-strand or blended weft– March/April 2016
• How to conceal a weft end – May/June 2016
• Shuttle Skuttle:  How to select the right shuttle for your next project – July/August 2016
• Is your cloth beam knotty or nice?– November/December 2016
• Tim’s Rudimentary Treadle Reducer – January/February 2017
• Crisp Towel Hems– March/April 2017
• Holding Heddles Back – May/June 2017
• Why your mileage may vary (why your results may differ) – July/August 2017
• Cutting off a partially woven warp – September/October 2017
• Colourlovers.com – November/December 2017
• How to create an ombré warp effect – January/February 2018
• Protecting the tips of scissors – March/April 2018
• Seeing the value of a color with a smartphone - May/June 2018
• Insulators for supplementary warp ends - July/August 2018
• Reed storage - September/October 2018
• Music stands - November/December 2018
• Organizing heddles - January/February 2019
• Snap tape - March/April 2019
• Hairbands - May/June 2019
• Winding with more than one warp end - July/August 2019
• Using color to create selvedge borders -September/October 2019
• ​Managing scissors - November/December 2019
• ​Determining sett - January/February 2020
• ​Make your own repair heddles - Mach/April 2020
• ​From Skein-to-Loom - May/June 2020
• ​Reducing frequent weft changes - July/August 2020
• Linen testers - September/October 2020
• ​Tagging yarn balls - November/December 2020
• ​Labeling items - January/February 2021
• Marking treadles - March/April 2021
• Beading fringe with dental floss threaders - May/June 2021
• ​What to wear to weave - July/August 2021
• ​Recording keeping/Loom logs - September/October 2021
• A comb to keep the warp open - November/December 2021
• Tracking your treadling - Issue #37
• Re-tensioning an uneven warp - Issue #38
• Weights for warp ends - Issue #39
• Keeping your scissors handy - Issue #40
• Organzing bobbins - Issue #41
• Reducing bulk in hems - Issue #42

Professional-related articles

• Galleries and Artists:  Relationship or Partnership, by Jill Heppenheimer – March/April 2017
• A Business Framework for Artists:  Digging in Deeper, part 1, by Jill Heppenheimer – May/June 2017
• A Business Framework for Artists:  Digging in Deeper, part 2, by Jill Heppenheimer – July/August 2017
• Creating a Collection for the Marketplace, by Jill Heppenheimer – September/October 2017
• Pricing:  Putting a Quantitative Value on Creativity, by Jill Heppenheimer – November/December 2017
• I got fired by a gallery!, by Robyn Spady – January/February 2019
• History of Silk City Fibers - July/August 2019

Worth Knowing and Other Extras . . .

• Who’s Your Tabby? – January/February 2016
• Shadow Fashion – May/June 2016
• 60/30/10 Rule for Color – July/August 2016
• Petit Point – September/October 2016   
• Fancy Twills– January/February 2017
• Hemp:  Friend or Foe? – March/April 2017
• Complementary Weaves – May/June 2017
• Name Drafting – July/August 2017
• Turned Taqueté – September/October 2017
• The Bezold Effect – September/October 2017
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Color Intensity – November/December 2017
• 10 Reasons to Support the Arts - January/February 2018
• Draw-up versus Drawdown – March/April 2018
• Norwood Looms – March/April 2018
• Is a dobby loom in your future - May/June 2018
• A brief history of Schacht's Wolf looms - May/June 2018
• 10 tips from Daryl Lancaster - July/August 2018
• Log Cabin in Haute Couture - September/December 2018
• Saving Endangered Textile Traditions - November/December 2018
• Pantone's Color of the Year for 2018 - November/December 2018
• David Xenakis and his weaving story - January/February 2019
• American Craft Council - a look at one of their shows, their Hip Pop program, and the Randall Darwall Emerging Fiber Artist Grant
• Reducing Pattern Lines - March/April 2019
• ​Handweaving.net - March/April 2019
• Anni Albers and Weaving at the Bauhaus - May/June 2019
• Whole Brain Weaving, by Cameron Taylor-Brown - May/June 2019
• Text driving Ashford's wavy shuttle - May/June 2019
• Another Look at Tabby - July/August 2019
• 2019 winners of the Heddlecraft® Award for Excellence and Innovation in Handweaving - July/August 2019
• Weaving on Opposites - September/October 2019
• The Importance of Value - September/October 2019
• ​SAORI Weaving - January/February 2020
• Adapting overshot patterns into deflected double weave - March/April 2020
• Four Methods for Two Warps - May/June 2020
• About Silk Yarn - May/June 2020
• Treenway Silks - May/June 2020
• Are You Sitting Comfortably? - July/August 2020
• Meridian Specialty Yarn Group - September/October 2020
• Tablet (Card) Weaving - November/December 2020
• Drafting Double Weave Threadings - November/December 2020
• Fringe-free hem ideas for double-faced fabrics - November/December 2020
• ​Sprang - January/February 2021
• Learning to Weave - origins of an iconic book - May/June 2021
• Reducing Crackle to fewer shafts - July/August 2021
• Fibonacci & Color Proportion - September/October 2021
• The Importance of Value - September/October 2021
• ​Multiple Tabby - November/December 2021
• Jack Lenor Larsen - Issue #37
• Saganishiki - Issue #37
• Irish linen - Past, present, & future - Issue #38
• Exotic Sustainable Yarns/WEARWITHALL Yarns - Issue #39
• Test Drive:  Schacht's Cricket Quartet - Issue #39
• ​Tartan at the V&A Dundee - Issue #40
• Tracking - Issue #41
  
• Pressing & the Importance of Compression - Issue #42
  
• Tubular Double Weave Selvedges - Issue #42
  
• Test Drive - Ashford's cottolin yarn - Issue #42
  

​Game of Thrums

• Episode 1 – Bangle Bracelets – January/February 2017
• Episode 2 – Super Simple Fiber Beads – March/April 2017
• Episode 3 - From Straws into Beads –   July/August 2018
• Episode 4 - From Washer to Wonderful - March/April 2019
• Episode 5 - A Small Wall Hanging - January/February 2020
• Episode 6 - Scarves from Thrums - March/April 2020
• Episode 7 - Threads Wraps on a New Scale
• Episode 8 - Dorset buttons

Shelf Awareness

• New Key to Weaving – January/February 2016
• A Thread Through Time – March/April 2016
• The Techniques of Rug Weaving - March/April 2016
• The Shuttle-Craft Book of American Hand-weaving – May/June 2016
• Mastering Weave Structures - July/August 2016
• Lace Weaves Portfolio – July/August 2016
• The Weaving Book:  Patterns and Ideas – September/October 2016
• Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes – September/October 2016 & July/August 2017
• The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers – November/December 2016
• The Weaver’s Studio:  Doubleweave – November/December 2016
• The Primary Structure of Fabrics – January/February 2017
• The Weaver’s Weevil – January/February 2017
• Handwoven Table Linens - March/April 2017
• Innovative Weaving:  A Guide for Study Groups – March/April 2017
• Weaving on 3 Shafts – May/June 2017
• Väv & Weave – May/June 2017
• A Handweaver’s Pattern Book – July/August 2017
• Weaving Overshot:  Redesigning the Tradition – July/August 2017
• Weaving with Echo and Iris – September/October 2017
• Interaction of Color – September/October 2017
• A Weavers Book of 8-shaft Patterns – November/December 2017
• Piqué – Plain and Patterned – November/December 2017
• Weave Leno - January/February 2018
• A Handweaver’s Pattern Directory - January/February 2018
• Inventive Weaving on a Small Loom - January/February 2018
• Summer and Winter Plus: The Best of Weaver’s – March/April 2018
• Summer and Winter: A Weave for All Seasons – March/April 2018
• Summer and Winter and Beyond:  The Weaver’s Journal, Monograph Two – March/April 2018
• Summer and Winter and Other Two-Tie Unit Weaves: Shuttle Craft Guild – Monograph Nineteen – March/April 2018
• Stubenitsky Code - May/June 2018
• The Weaver's Companion - May/June 2018
• Huck Lace (The Best of Weaver's) - July/August 2018
• Handwoven Laces - July/August 2018
• Color-and-Weave II - September/October 2018
• Colour-and-Weave Design - September/October 2018
• A Handbook of Weaves - September/October 2018
• Overshot Weaving - November/December 2018
• Overshot Simple - November/December 2018
• Doup Leno - January/February 2019
• Textile Design and Colour - January/February 2019
• Advanced Textile Design - January/February 2019
• Doubleweave:  Revised & Expanded - January/February 2019
• Network Drafting:  An Introduction - March/April 2019
• Exploring Multishaft Design - March/April 2019
• On Weaving - May/June 2019
• Color and Texture in Weaving - May/June 2019
• Simple Weaves - May/June 2019
• Double Two-tie Unit Weaves - July/August 2019
• Fit 2 Be Tied - July/August 2019
• Master Weaver Library - September/October 2019
• Huck Lace Patterns with Color-and-Weave Effects -September/October 2019
• Beiderwand? - November/December 2019
• Pattern and Loom - November/December 2019
• The Technique of Freeform Weaving - January/February 2020
• Byways in Handweaving - January/February 2020
• ​The Maker's Hand - January/February 2020
• Double with a Twist - March/April 2020
• Honeycomb Hybrids - March/April 2020
• The Draught Book by Jeremiah Fielding 1775 - March/April 2020
• A Silk Worker's Notebook - May/June 2020
• Favorite Scandinavian Projects to Weave - July/August 2020
• Handwoven Baby Blankets - July/August 2020
• 3-D Handloom Weaving - September/October 2020
• Ikat - September/October 2020
• Designing Woven Fabrics - November/December 2020
• Exploring Woven Fabrics - November/December 2020
• A Handbook of Weaves - January/February 2021
• The Weaver's Companion - January/February 2021
• The Weaving Handbook - March/April 2021
• Warp and Weft - March/April 2021
• Universal Stitches - May/June 2021
• Finishing Techniques for the Handweaver - May/June 2021
• Weave Classic Crackle & More - July/August 2021
• A Crackle Weave Companion - July/August 2021
• Color Works - September/October 2021
• Color and Fiber - September/October 2021
• Designing with Blocks - November/December 2021
• Multiple Tabby Weaves - November/December 2021
• To Weave the Swedish Way - Issue #37
• Huck Lace Weaving Patterns with Color andWeave Effects - Issue #37
• Elements of Weaving - Issue #37
• Plain Weave - Issue #38
• Eight Shafts: Beyond the Beginning - Issue #38
• Benches, Stools, and Chairs - Issue #39
• Ondulé Textiles - Issue #39
• The Enigma of Shadow Weave - Issue #40
• Max8 - Issue #40
• A Crepe is not just a Pancake - Issue #41
• Weaving with Wire - Issue #41
• The Magic of LInen / Linen:  Flax Seed to Woven Cloth - Issue #42
• Manual of Swedish Handweaving - Issue #42

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