Like other readers, I have been lusting after this book since I first heard of it. The tantalizing photos released pre-publication only made me keener to get the book, and it was well worth the wait!
I am a rigid heddler, and I adore tribal weavings, so there are two pluses for a start. The text is easy to follow, the photographs fabulous and the projects straightforward, but there is more! The author expects weavers to be able to take the skills she teaches, and create our own projects using the skills we have learned, and without running to the text each step of the way to see if its done correctly. I immediately had my little loom warped up, and my biggest dilemma now is which project to chose!
Each project is set out so that materials, sett and any diagrams are easy to organise and have ready. There are also lots of handy hints, like how to warp up for a balanced weave or a warp-faced weave, and she has sections on twining, tablet weaving and pick-up that can be combined in the projects in different ways. These may be millenia-old techniques, but they have a fresh modern face to them that will see them popular for the next 1,000 years.
Books that not only teach, but inspire, are big winners in my book, and this is one of the biggest!
Definitely a keeper!
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