Some of my favorite resources:

  • Planning a visit to Colorado? View the arts and crafts sections of the Colorado Links Web Page
  • WeaveDesign: Free weaving software by Bengt Nelso, available for download from the Pikes Peak Weavers Guild
  • Visit Pantone, the world’s leading authority on color systems and provider of technology for communication about color among designers, manufacturers, retailers and customers. If you want specific color forecasting for fashion and home trends by season, zero in on Trends.
  • Celanese Corporation provides a glossary of terms used in the textile industry titled the Complete Textile Glossary.
  • A very useful weaving yarn calculator is available at the Loomy Bin which provides a number of tools for loom and card weaving.
  • For a realistic idea of what a lace structure would look like, download LaceWeave, a shareware program developed by Dave Raup.
  • If the design you want to weave requires more treadles than you have on your loom, use Tim’s Rudimentary Treadle Reducer developed by Tim McLaren, mathematics professor at Earlham College.
  • Also very useful is the free online calculator for monetary exchange rates among countries, The XE.com Universal Currency Converter.
  • Lindsay Landis of Lindsay Designs shares her techniques for photographing textiles titled Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional.
  • Written for the International Textile & Apparel Association, J.R. Campbell’s Optimizing Photography for ITAA Design Exhibition Submission provides a useful tutorial for photographing and preparing digital images of textile and apparel items(2 megabytes).
  • Before his untimely death, Ralph Griswold scanned historic weaving texts, images, etc., which are no longer under copyright protection and makes them available to everyone on the internet. His On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving & Related Topics provides a wealth of historic information on weaving and textiles in general.
  • Ruthe Stowe’s Collection of Weaving Resources provides links to a variety of sites useful for weaving, dyeing, and other fiber activities.
  • Another popular site for a broad range of textile crafts information is Ron Parker’s Current List of Lists.
  • The Handweaving Draft Archives maintained by Kris Bruland stores over 41,000 weaving drafts with more added each day. The goal of the site is to enable weavers to find and exchange weaving drafts.

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