Handwoven fabric can be easily sewn with a bit of extra care.
Difficulty Level:
Average
Here’s How:
- Wet finish and press the handwoven fabric prior to cutting.
- Cottons can be washed in hot water, dryed in the dryer and steam ironed.
- Add an extra 1/2 inch seam allowance and cut the fabric pieces.
- Finish all cut edges immediately with a zig zag stitch, to prevent ravelling.
- Sew project according to pattern directions.
- For soft fabrics, you can use a fusible interlining to increase the stability of the fabric.
- Fine fabrics can be finished with French seams.
- Edges can be finished with zig zag stitching or can be turned over and sewn with a straight seam.
- A serger makes a fast and easy seam finish as well.
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Hand Weaving Books
Weaving on a Little Loom (Everything you need to know to get started with weaving, includes 5 simple projects
The Key to Weaving: A Textbook of Hand Weaving for the Beginning Weaver
The Weaver’s Companion (The Companion Series)
Learning to Weave
The Big Book of Weaving: Handweaving in the Swedish Tradition: Techniques, Patterns, Designs and Materials
The Handweaver’s Pattern Directory
A Weaver’s Book of 8-Shaft Patterns: From the Friends of Handwoven
Krokbragd: How to Design & Weave
Doubleweave: On Four to Eight Shafts
Double Weave: Theory and Practice<
Magic of Doubleweave: The Best of Weaver’s (Best of Weaver’s series)
Weaving In the Arts: Widening the Learning Circle
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