Category: Twinning

  • The landward side of the A859

    The landward side of the A859

    Borvemor is situated on the beautiful West Coast of Harris, and overlooks the Island of Taransay. If you see the house in the photo above on the landward side of the A859 when travelling from Tarbert, 14 miles, you will have gone 100m too far for Borvemor cottages and if you see it when travelling…

  • weavers loom sheds

    weavers loom sheds

    In weaving, the shed is the temporary separation between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven. The shed is created to make it easy to interlace the weft into the warp and thus create woven fabric. Most types of looms have some sort of device which separates some of the warp threads from the others. This separation is…

  • budding weavers and welcome to the very first Stashing Yarn Post … – Fabric Crafts

    budding weavers and welcome to the very first Stashing Yarn Post … – Fabric Crafts

    Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic…

  • How to Weave TWINNING

    How to Weave TWINNING

    While looking over some old books I came across the twining weave and wanted to try it out. Twining is a process of interlacing strands to make twine, but you can also use this technique to make a weave pattern. I made a basic double side-by-side twining weave and then I tried a single twining…