Handwoven tapestry

Using a cartoon for tapestry and other figurative weaving is a time-honored technique. Here's how Tommye McClure Scanlin does it.

Katie Strano on Instagram: "Hemstitching. 🪡 Watch until the end to see who’s making all the racket in the video. 🐶 Video ID:[My hands are seen using a tapestry needle to stitch an on-the-loom hemstitch on the end of a piece of handwoven textile. The cloth is of a few different weights of wool yarn. In the first clip I’m working left to right, in the second right to left. The third clip is of my dog Sabine sitting under the loom wanting to play. She’s a black lab mutt.] #handstitched…

"Bright and blustery" handwoven tapestry, woven at 8 warps per inch size: 41.5cm x 10.5cm (not including wooden frame) materials: cotton, linen, rayon and wool *SOLD* View from the front of our gallery, looking across Scapa Flow to Flotta and Hoy. detail As this was a small piece I decided to weave it on a small wooden frame attached to an easel. Orkney landscape colours on a row of bobbins.

I appear to be on a weaving kick at the moment. For whatever reason it's working with my current sketches and ideas. The day after I cut down "bright and blustery" I warped up my next piece which is based on an oil pastel sketch of a horizon. It'll be approximately 70cm x 23cm (27.5" x 9") when completed. I have a much bigger piece planned after this one which I'm even more excited about. Although it feels incredibly strange to be closed and so quiet at this time of year I am making the most…

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