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
  • Spot Bronson & Barleycorn - Issue #43

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
  • Hair bands - Issue #43

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
  • ​What a difference a weft makes - Issue #43

​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
  • Early American Weaving and Dyeing - Issue #43
  • Designing and Drafting for Handweavers - Issue #43