Customer Reviews

The Magic of Handweaving

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While many go ga-ga over the Chandler book, my teacher recommended this one to me and I have found it heaven sent and covers everything that a novice weaver could possibly need to know including the triangle, weavette & hand looms to the 4 and 8 shaft varieties. Sigrid gives lots of examples and by the end shows you how to take apart a design and recreate it. Wonderful book and cannot praise it highly enough.

I found this book in a brick and mortar store and thought it would be helpful as an introduction to weaving. While the illustrations are beautiful and the coverage appears to be broad, I disliked the organization of the book. It is not well organized for a beginner. It would have made learning easier to introduce the technical terms more slowly and then providing an illustrated glossary at the back. I found that the book went into too much technical detail too quickly. Teach a person to weave with a lap loom and those terms first until comfort with the vocabulary is established. Instead the author launches into a detailed explanation of floor looms, etc., in the second chapter! I believe this book is a good resource and I may turn to it later on, but this books is not for beginners.

The subtitle of the book "The Basics and Beyond" is a good description of the contents. There are many beautiful photos. There is great design inspiration in the book. It is perhaps more comprehensive than the beginner can digest.

This is not a great book from which to learn to weave. That basic information is spread throughout the book, but there can be an overwhelming amount of advanced concepts, for which the beginner brain is not ready, along with the basics.

Although it contains a large amount of useful information for all weavers, it is also not a book that makes it easy to find that bit of information you need that you know is in there.

This book was exactly what I needed. I have purchased 3 tabletop looms and this book had all three featured. The explanations were clear and the photos excellent.

As a very new weaver without much confidence in what I am doing, I found Sigrid Piroch's book Magic of Handweaving to be a Godsend!
It tells in wonderful detail and fantastic pictures exactly what I need to know to begin weaving.
I would recommend this book to any new weaver.

"the basics and beyond" -- an apt subtitle for this book. Chock full of both superb color photgraphs of projects, in process & completed, as well as some of the most helpful diagrams and explanations of "writing" and interpreting patterns. Insightful looks into weaving around the world. Wide range of projects from rugs to clothing. Very inspiring.

This was a gift...wife is a big weaver and this was on the list. She enjoyed this book. Everyone is happy...hope you will be too.