Weaving color combinations

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Crushed Mustard, Persephone, Cocoa, Bushwillow & Grey Sage 🍃 a beautiful wearable palette with many combination possibilities 🍂 Yama Merino…

Two of the reasons I like fabric weaving are: 1) even after planning your project, you can never know exactly how it will turn out; it depends on the color, type, and number of fabric strips you use; the pattern; and how you combine everything. All of that is hard to "see" until it starts…

Many weavers feel color-challenged. Read how Sherrie Miller tackles her own insecurities when it comes to weaving and color theory.

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Deciding how to arrange the colors in a Color Gamp can lead to many enjoyable hours of planning, thinking and rearranging. The purpose of a color gamp is to see the interactions of the color in the weave structure. In a purely academic way, the way the colors are arranged in a color gamp doesn’t […]

Welcome to my moods were I translate my current mood into color and inspiration for that next big project. I hope you too find inspiration for your next project. There are over 100 to choose from. …

In my Etsy shop, www.ASpinnerWeaver.Etsy.com, I sometimes sell my favorite yarn, Omega Sinfonia, in packs containing 4 colors and include a sheet with a dozen possible combinations using those colors. Below is one of those sets of 12 patterns which I invite you to use for yourself as they are, or as inspiration to create your own designs. These use 39 threads, and for me, when I use them with the Sinfonia, the woven bands come out to about 1" in width. This width is great for dog collars and…

Anna on Instagram: "I made an educational display with a weaving I made with handspun and naturally dyed yarn to show the range of color you can achieve from nine dye plants that I grow, the tenth color (green) is a combination of two. The color possibilities are endless with just these and some modifiers, but I have many more dye plants growing 😎🌈 I’ll be sharing info at the Small Farm and Homestead Expo in Price tomorrow (sorry, ticket sales have already closed) and @helperhomegrown free…

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In an effort to be more brave about color, I'm trying some oddball (to me) color combinations in some small sprang-and-woven art pieces, just to see what happens with color blending and contrast. These are a series similar in structure to some of the doubleweave I had done a couple years ago. It's interesting that the sprang under the tension of the loom is causing the fabric to buckle slightly. I don't remember noticing this before, but the low light angle is really showing it up in this…

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Perhaps you’ve seen beautiful color gradients in handwoven projects, but you’re not sure how to achieve them, especially with a limited yarn palette. Here are six ways to create gradients in handwoven cloth.