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Weaving from the Front vs. Back: Questions from The Art of Tapestry Weaving

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Weaving from the Front vs. Back: Questions from The Art of Tapestry Weaving

Oh my but I get this question a lot. Should I weave from the front or the back? Or if you’re brand new to tapestry weaving, your question might be, WHAT??? What does that even mean, weaving from the front or from the back?

I’m spending some time addressing questions from readers of my book, The Art of Tapestry Weaving on the blog, and this is one I get not only from readers but from students in my workshops and online courses.

What does it mean to weave tapestry from the front or from the back?

I demonstrate this in the video below, but the short answer is that the side of the tapestry that will be showing when hung on the wall or used in some other manner, is the front. Tapestry is a one-sided fabric in almost all cases* and it is important to know which side of the weaving will be showing when it is displayed.

What is the best way to use a skein of yarn? Put-ups for tapestry and other yarn activities.

What is the best way to use a skein of yarn? Put-ups for tapestry and other yarn activities.

Yarn comes in many forms. If you saw the video I did last week about making yarn balls, you’ll realize that there are different ways your yarn might come packaged. Many of those forms are usable just as they are, but one particular configuration is almost impossible to use without transforming the yarn into a different shape, the skein or hank.

How a yarn is packaged is called put-up. That just means that it comes in a skein, on a cone, on a tube, in a cake or ball, or wound on a card. The image and gallery below shows those various put-ups.

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Questions from The Art of Tapestry Weaving: Ball Winders

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Questions from The Art of Tapestry Weaving: Ball Winders

I have had some wonderful emails from people all over the world about my book, The Art of Tapestry Weaving, which was published in November of 2020. There are some concepts that are harder to translate into images and text and a video can really help demonstrate and some of you have sent me these questions over the last few months.

I have had yarn around me my entire life. Because of this long exposure to this very addictive substance, it is sometimes hard for me to remember that the way we use or manage yarn can be pretty foreign to people who did not toddle around with a ball of it in hand as an infant.

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Dead batteries, best practices (7 years in the bathroom), and Ruthie

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Dead batteries, best practices (7 years in the bathroom), and Ruthie

Here is a little bit of what has been going on in my world. Most of it is at least tangentially tapestry related.

The Ruthie

While scrolling through Instagram in January, a post popped up of a lovely tapestry loom which I have long admired.* The Crisp Ruthie loom is a high-warp tapestry loom which is no longer made and hasn’t been since perhaps the 1980s. I know a couple tapestry weavers who have one (Joan Griffin and Tommye Scanlin) and love them. So my scrolling stopped when I saw the Ruthie and when I read the post, thought, someone is going to be the lucky new owner of that loom! After reposting to my IG Stories, I had a shocking thought. What if I bought that loom? Certainly it is somewhere far away and who wants to ship something so heavy across the country?