Plum purple shawl and knitted hat to match. Diamonds in aqua, fuchsia, plum yarns. Photo of upper body. Lighter skinned person with glasses. Purple oyster shell silver butterfly necklace with turquoise heishi beads.

Diamond twill handwoven shawl, #8Shaft, handspun in warp, recycled sweater yarn for weft (I used my spinning wheel) 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #twill #handspunYarn #recycle #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieArt #IndieRetail
#Artivism #Craftivism

Slanted view of a large wooden floor loom with a grape jelly purple fabric being woven on it. The pattern looks very complex, a wavy X-styled pattern with moire effects. In the background is a tuxedo kitty with white paws and a white goatee chin on a chair.

Eight shaft advancing snowflake twill, handwoven with my handspun cotton weft. The weaving shuttle is designed for a charkha spindle 💜 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven 🧶 #slowfashion #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieArt #IndieRetail #handspunYarn
#Artivism #Craftivism #8Shaft

Eight shaft loom warped with different green colored cotton yarn.

Prepared cotton warp yarn for weaving hanging over the front beam of a table loom.

A freshly warped table loom with cotton yarn in several greenish colirsn

Fresh warp. Twill gamp cotton towels. #weaving #8shaft #eightshaftweaving

An aqua-turquoise shawl with a wavy curvy zigzag pattern and fringe. I’m wearing it, a mixed Balkan brunette with a buzz cut and glasses. Smiling, left hand over the front, dark navy pants. I’m leaning against an adobe style wall with a bench ledge and a dusty blue antique wooden doorway.

An #8Shaft undulating twill shawl I wove with tabby, as with freeform overshot 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #ShopSmall #WeavingPatterns #IndieArt #Artivism#IndieRetail #SupportSmallBiz #Craftivism

a long panel of handwoven blue cloth

Detail of pattern in woven cloth. Based on #181 in Carol Strickler, A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns.

When I'm not screaming into the void, I weave. I finally finished a languishing project to add panels to a tablecloth.
What are you doing? How are you managing? #8shaft #schachtspindle #mightywolf

Blue clothing in coordinated shades and hues with some purples. Mixed Balkan brunette person with a buzz cut and glasses. Japanese style light coat and top. Cross body bag. In front of a large pine tree in a yard with a turquoise wooden fence.

A handwoven cotton fabric scrap (Japanese sakiori) coat & bag (weft faced strap), a handwoven #4Shaft & #8Shaft cotton top underneath. Cotton quilting fabric pants with ammonites 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #sakiori #WeavingPatterns

Working on a scarf if I have enough warp left with some scrap yarn 😍 #weaving #8shaft

A shawl width fabric rolling off a large floor loom onto a beige carpet. The fabric has a fuchsia and turquoise stripey effect created by hand dyed yarn combined with a complex zigzag twill pattern that trends vertically (long direction of fabric) and has a stair step angle to it of little triangles. On top sits a long haired tuxedo cat with a symmetrical white chest, white chin and whiskers. He looks pensive.

Pablo quality checking an #8Shaft advancing twill fabric woven with hand dyed yarns 🌀🩷 #Caturday #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #AdvancingTwill #WeavingPatterns #multishadtLoon

Textured scarf woven in intersecting bands of orange, pink, yellow, burgundy, beige, and cream. Fabric is casually folded.

The first of the one-of-a-kind handwoven merino scarves that will be available at the studio in August for #HampshireOpenStudios!
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#hampshireopenstudios2025
#winchester #hampshire #8shaft #weaving #artiststudio #textileartist #textileart #heritagecrafts #weaving #handweaving #väv #vävning

New weaving project, kitchen towels. #8shaft #Glimakra standard loom

Merino warp in shades of white, cream, burnt orange, rust, terracotta, bright orange being wound onto a wooden floor loom

Merino warp in shades of white, cream, burnt orange, rust, terracotta, bright orange being wound onto a wooden floor loom

Winding on a new warp on the loom this evening. For a vintage, 70's era loom, this colour scheme must feel like déjà vu 😂
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#väv #vävning #handweaving #loom #8shaft #countermarche #merino #70saesthetic #burntorange #rust #terracotta #handwovenscarf #textilestudio #textiles #textiledesign #weaving

Upper back perspective of neckline decoration on a lavender/dark plum twill top with a wavy rainbow trim band. The fabric is woven with very fine threads contrasting lavender and dark plum to create a complex twill with ovalish “rose” patterns. The tablet band has the same dark plum along the edges. A yellow-orange-red-turquoise-green wavy rainbow with lavender flecks and wavy stripes overlaps in a V at the middle of the back neckline. Above the overlap is a sewn on ivory cut money cowrie. The neck of a person is visible above. Lavender text on a black background above and below: Lisa Rayner Handwovens / Weaving Patterns • Etsy

One of my handwoven tops. An #8Shaft snowflake twill fabric in a rose pattern I designed with handspun cotton weft and tablet woven trim 🌈 #FiberArt #TextileArt #art #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #WeavingPatterns

Striped warp in shades of burgundy, orange, green, lavender, cream on a wooden countermarche floor loom. Weft is woven with stripes of beige, brown and cream. Pattern is 8 shaft M's and W's twill, woven in 8/2 cotton for tea towels.

Last one!! 😰
#handwoven #weaving #8shaft #neverendingwarp #floorloom #countermarche #floorloom #teatowels #heritagecraft

Metal bobbin winder, winding lime green 8/2 cotton thread. Winder has a wooden handle.

Weavers of Bluesky! My trusty bobbin winder has started skipping/jamming...is there anything I can do to adjust/fix it? 😭 #weaving #8shaft #4shaft #väv #vävning #handweaving #loom #loomweaving #oxberg #weave

Floor loom with a striped warp brown, yellow, rose, purple, sand, center lavender and then mirror. Black weft, undulating twill. Boat shuttle with bobbin of black weft behind the woven web.

#TeaTowel #9. #Strickland #222. Black almost always makes colors pop. Very simple treadling pattern, so it should go fairly quickly. Plus a three-day weekend. If gardening doesn't win. #Weaving #handwoven #fiberart #textile #floor loom #8shaft

Colourful striped warp being woven on a wooden 8 shaft loom into tea towels with intersecting orange and blue horizontal and vertical stripes.

#teatowel #kitchentowel #handwoven #väv #8shaft #stricklerincolor #weaving #slowhome #textiles #vävning #msandws #textiledesign

Handwoven sample in turned twill: a variety of stripes in hot colours (red, pink, orange) and blues with overlapping purple colours. The warp here is 20/2 silk and the weft is cotton. From this sample I designed a more careful gradient, increasing the size of each coloured section.

Weaving at the loom showing one colour (bright blue) which to my eye just didn’t look right. Too much, not enough contrast with the warp and the ratios in the block changes look wrong. So I’ve cut the weft out and will spend twenty minutes pulling the threads until I can start again. That’s weaving life!

Sometimes you sample, plan meticulously and then weave only to say, “Nope”! The gut feeling can’t be ignored and you just have to cut out and try again. #weaving #handwoven #turnedtwill #8shaft

A cute tuxedo cat with white paws and whiskers and big yellow eyes is underneath a lavender fabric rolled off a floor loom that has a slit in it, making it particularly attractive to him. Peek-a-boo!

#FelineFriday 🐈‍⬛ Pablo under an #8Shaft snowflake twill with a handspun cotton weft and neckline slit woven on the loom. My Etsy shop supplements my SSDI. #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #Art #WeavingPatterns #handspun

I’m holding a bundle of threads at the left of the photo which are supposed to have been threaded like the heddles on the right. This means I made a threading error, which is a blow for any hand weaver. This is an eight shaft threading but you have see the lower bars for twelve shafts in the picture. Sigh.

Another photo of the loom being threaded, this time you can see all the heddles I have completed and at the right hand side my hand separates the warp where the threading error happened. In fact, this is twenty threads in, meaning I must rethread the other 370 threads or change my plan with the borders. This is a head desk moment. I don’t want narrower borders!! Argh!

That moment when you get to the end of your threading and ask “why do I have these extra ends?” and you realise you haven’t made the right border wide enough. Smaller border or rethread? (Time to have a cuppa and decide later.) #weaving #mistakeshappen #8shaft

Pinterest board with abstract patterns containing various shades of orange plus other colours

Pinterest board with abstract patterns containing various shades of orange plus other colours

Pinterest board with abstract patterns containing various shades of orange plus other colours

Rhymes with Orange 🍊 Plotting some future woven scarf projects using awkward shades of orange I've purchased 😂 Possibly just trying to console myself that I haven't made a terrible error, that any colour can be beautiful in the right pairing #weaving #8shaft #colourtheory #juxtaposition #balance

A brunette mixed Balkan person with a buzz cut and glasses wearing a medium light blue top with a small diamond twill pattern and a darker blue kimono like collar, one side of which slants down the front halfway to the right side. Cowrie choker with blue around the cowrie. Navy blue pants with lighter ammonite print. Ivy covered plasted gold beige wall behind.

My original freeform overshot Seashell Scarf. Handwoven top, #4Shaft & #8Shaft. #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #RigidHeddleWeaving #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #koginEmbroidery

Tea towel being woven on an old wooden floor loom. Cloth is being woven in intersecting horizontal and vertical bands of green, orange, white, purple and maroon. A wooden boat shuttle is currently filled with a bobbin of pale green thread.

Tea towel being woven on an old wooden floor loom. Cloth is being woven in intersecting horizontal and vertical bands of green, orange, white, purple and maroon. A wooden boat shuttle is currently filled with a bobbin of pale green thread.

Tea towel being woven on an old wooden floor loom. Cloth is being woven in intersecting horizontal and vertical bands of green, orange, white, purple and maroon. A wooden boat shuttle is currently filled with a bobbin of pale green thread. In the background you can see windows and an old sewing machine.

Might put in some horizontal bands of orange with the weft for the next one, but for this one I thought I'd just stick with greens and see how it looks. Quite like this savoury/mid-century/old campervan upholstery vibe #teatowel #handwoven #väv #8shaft #stricklerincolor #weaving #slowhome #textiles

A brunette mixed Balkan person wearing a fuchsia knit top sitting at a large, wide wooden floor loom with the top slats of eight shafts visible. Hands on reed/beater. Blue and rainbow striped warp, blue weft.

Weaving one of my favorite shawls on my #8Shaft loom in the Before Times. #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #RigidHeddleWeaving #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

Cloth is being woven on a large wooden floor loom. The cloth is woven in a 'plaid' pattern, with intersecting horizontal and vertical bands of orange, maroon, purple, green and peach.

Another evening kitchen towel underway 🌜
#weaving #textiledesign #stricklerincolour #stricklerincolor #8shaft

Old wooden loom with 'plaid' fabric being woven in vertical and horizontal intersecting bands of maroon, orange, green, purple, teal. A bit of sun is shining through the curtains behind the loom.

Nice bit of sun coming through the studio windows this afternoon! 🌞 I moved studios/built this backyard loom shed in September so I'm curious to see what the summer light will be like (north facing) #weaving #textiles #textilestudio #8shaft

Plaid tea towel in horizontal and vertical shades of orange, maroon, green, purple and orange being woven on an old wooden floor loom. The wooden boat shuttle is currently loaded with a bobbin of lavender coloured thread

Plaid tea towel in horizontal and vertical shades of orange, maroon, green, purple and orange being woven on an old wooden floor loom. The wooden boat shuttle is currently loaded with a bobbin of lavender coloured thread

Monday night tea towel weaving 🌜
#weaving #8shaft #textiledesign #stricklerincolor #loom

The author wearing her handwoven scarf in a black and gray pattern called braided twill

I wove a scarf this week
#Strickler #handwoven #Glimakra #8shaft

Handwoven sampler drying on the clothes line, showing deflected double weave patterned from an overshot draft.

That exciting moment when you pull the weaving out of the washing machine and see what happened to all the floats: magic! This sampler is my attempt to get my head around deflected double weave, in particular, using overshot to develop the pattern.

#weaving #handwoven #deflecteddoubleweave #8shaft

Striped burgundy, orange and green warp being wound onto a wooden floor loom, weighted by milk jugs filled with water

Phew! Now the fun begins! 🌈🧵
#weaving #8shaft #stricklerincolour

Burgundy, orange, green and purple warp threads being wound onto a wooden floor loom. A small brown and white dog is sitting in a dog bed next to the loom.

Burgundy, orange, green and purple striped warp threads tied to previous beige warp ends on a wooden floor loom

Ends all tied together! Time to detangle and wind on (tomorrow!) 🥱🌜
#weaving #8shaft #studiodog #floorloom #countermarche #winchester #hampshire