My newest pattern: A Rainbow Peace Freeform Overshot Motif CHART & SCARF. Weave a peace symbol in a Saori fabric or a scarf. Art is resistance ☮️ #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #RigidHeddleWeaving #antiwar #war
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Mixed Balkan person with glasses wearing a straw hat and deep magenta striped thick handwoven shawl with wool lock art yarn, a striped turquoise and magenta handwoven art yarn cuff bracelet. Standing in front of a juniper woodland with a metal leaf sculpture.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens is the home of freeform weaving patterns and books for all loom types 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #Handwoven #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieArt #IndieRetail
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A dark grape jelly purple diamond twill pattern on a wide scarf width lavender warp. On a little wooden rigid heddle loom. Saori plain weave underneath the pattern. Top down view.

Saori freeform twill pick up pattern. Handwoven with chunky yarn in 2:1/1:2 twills for short weft floats 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #overshot 🧶 #twill #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #art #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieArt #IndieRetail
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A black cat lounges on a beige carpet next to lavender speckled yarn on a wooden warping board

Warping is more fun when done with a friend. Lavender wool freeform overshot ruana in progress 🐈‍⬛ #FelineFriday #Caturday #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieRetail
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My ocean-honoring shawl with freeform overshot motifs, a year in the making. I’m thrilled 🐬🐚🌈 #FiberArt #weaving #weaver
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Me, a mixed Balkan person with a buzz cut and glasses wearing a colorful rainbow and blue green shawl standing on a wooden staircase, the Pacific Ocean behind me, early morning light from the east. Low waves near the base of the staircase. A large rainbow, turquoise and navy blue shawl. The fabric is five scarf width vertical sections sewn together selvedge to selvedge. The outer and middle panels combine rainbow spectrum sections of different lengths with varying textured yarns with turquoise on navy geometric, spiral and sea life motifs: peace symbol, seahorse, diamond twills, scallop shell, double spiral, etc. The two panels in between the other three are mixed green, teal and turquoise Saori style weavings. Colorful and fantastical design. Rainbow refractions through water and clouds. Life and shapes. The different hues and shades of ocean water, from aqua to deep blue.

My ocean-honoring shawl with freeform overshot motifs, a year in the making 🌈 #FiberArt #weaving
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A large rainbow, turquoise and navy blue shawl draped over a white/light wood shoji screen. The fabric is five scarf width vertical sections sewn together selvedge to selvedge. The outer and middle panels combine rainbow spectrum sections of different lengths with varying textured yarns with turquoise on navy geometric, spiral and sea life motifs: peace symbol, seahorse, diamond twills, scallop shell, double spiral, etc. The two panels in between the other three are mixed green, teal and turquoise Saori style weavings. Colorful and fantastical design. Rainbow refractions through water and clouds. Life and shapes. The different hues and shades of ocean water, from aqua to deep blue.

My ocean-honoring shawl with freeform overshot motifs, almost a year in the making 🌈 Weave amazing art with little looms 🌀 #SmallBusinessSaturday #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #overshot 🧶 #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall
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A Saori tunic with freeform overshot motifs, including freeform overshot motifs & twill & tabby stripes. It’s Trans Awareness Week. Trans people deserve to grow old 🏳️‍⚧️ #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

Back view of me wearing a handwoven vest with textured art yarns with handspun coils, wavy flowy lilac/magenta vertical stripes 5+ centimeters wide, and aqua/light turquoise lens shaped spots. At top middle of the back is a large magenta outlined lilac heart with spirals forming the top two heart bumps. Black clothing underneath. Brunette buzz cut. I’m leaning on a wrought iron railing overlooking a condo building’s interior courtyard. Overcast gray sky.

A freeform frame loom art yarn vest from Wearable Handwoven Art on Any Loom. Weave amazing creations on simple & small looms 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

Me wearing a colorful Mexican huipil style top with fringe and a long purple skirt at a grassy park at the beach. Mixed Balkan brunette with a buzz cut and glasses, magenta/lavender/aqua handwoven top with asymmetrical fringe on the right side and three rainbow space dyed ribbons sewn around the neckline and front. Geometric design on purple skirt. Grassy park, sand and ocean and blue sky behind. Palm trees and colorful beach umbrellas in the distance.

My feline twill top. Rigid heddle & #4Shaft. Handwoven inkle band ribbons around the neck & front 🌀 YES ON PROP 50 🌊𓇼🐚🐬
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A long 18+ foot scarf width blue green fabric with different textures and yarn colors alternating in a non-regular way. It’s draped in a zigzag over a shoji screen, white and light wood. Six sections hanging down, two ends and two loops.

My latest Saori weaving is off the loom. Ocean intertidal zone inspired. I am combining it with another fabric to make a shawl 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

Blue on purple and purple on blue seahorses mirroring each other, the back and front of the same motif. Above is a photo collage of six tiny photos of me wearing colorful handwoven scarves and wraps: brunette with a buzz cut. Text Visit Lisa Rayner Handwovens on Etsy | Freeform overshot is a reversible pick up weaving technique for rigid heddle, frame, and pin looms, and any shaft looms. My seahorse is 64 ends wide.

Freeform overshot creates illustrations and complex patterns on simple looms. My seahorse is a Seashell Scarf pattern 🌀𓇼🌊🐚
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I design weaving patterns for all looms. I specialize in freeform overshot & twill pick up patterns. Read Freeform Overshot for Beginners 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

A mostly purple/lavender scarf on a little wooden loom on a table covered with a colorful Mayan ikat shawl. The scarf fabric has a medium dark lavender background. The pattern is curvy like a winding river. The pattern yarn thick chenille cotton space dyed in short sections of plum, purple, blue and magenta.

A Curvy Freeform Overshot Scarf: A freeform overshot project for beginners. Create freeform overshot designs on any loom 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

A photo composite if me, a mixed Balkan person with a buzz cur, brown hair graying at the sides, glasses, smiling. My arms are outstretched. I’m wearing a red purple top made of five narrow fabric panels sewn together vertically. Yellow, orange, fuchsia, lilac weft yarns in spectrum stripes with periodic motifs like a lilac Venus of Willendorf on the right bottom front. Plum leggings. Concrete wall with water designs and part of a water poem attributed to St. Francis of Assisi.

A Saori top with freeform overshot motifs, including the Venus of Willendorf goddess, spirals & geometric designs 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #KoginEmbroidery

Cover of book: white background with five photos of colorful freeform overshot projects: me with a brunette buzz cut wearing a green scarf covered with rainbow spirals, me wearing a fuchsia striped ruana with a fuchsia scarf collar with goddesses, each in a different bright color, a little spiral on a pin loom, fuchsia on a light blue plain weave grid, a tuxedo cat sitting inside a large but low wooden rigid heddle loom on a beige carpet next to the green spiral scarf on the middle of the loom, a large purple seahorse on light blue background.

Read Freeform Overshot for Beginners to learn how to weave & design amazing motifs & patterns on simple looms with pick up 🌀 lisaraynerhandwovens.etsy.com/listing/1439... #FiberArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

A collage of four pastel rainbow twill patterns on dark plum backgrounds. The 3D printed plastic four inch square purple loom with blue heddle handles on either side are photographed on an orange beige sandstone rock background. Clockwise from top left: butterfly, horizontal zigzags, taller than wide fancy diamond, double spiral bottom right larger spiral. Text Weaving patterns for simple looms in the middle on a muted orange background.

I wove my collection of small freeform overshot demonstration patterns on a tiny rigid heddle loom. For pin looms, frame looms, shaft looms, too. Insert in larger fabrics too. #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #koginEmbroidery

A scarf on a little wooden loom. A sherbet orange queen conch illustrated using different twills to create textures—points spiraling around the top, a large opening, a pointy bottom end. Light blue background with diagonal twill dots forming parallel lines. Left top is a small real sugar starfish, beige and textured, on the loom. Right top is an orange scallop shell. Navy text over the photo Visit Lisa Rayner Handwovens on Etsy.

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A very long (20+ feet) narrow scarf width fabric draped in five lengths over a white and light wood shoji screen. Navy blue background. Turquoise motifs with sea and spiral themes interspersed with color spectrum sections. Seahorse, complex diamonds, several seashells, multiple spirals of different thickness and number of spiral layers.

My Saori freeform overshot fabric I took off my little loom before moving. It will become part of a shawl 🌀𓇼🌊🐚 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #slowfashion #artsky #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #koginEmbroidery

I finally wet finished my Saori freeform overshot fabric I finished weaving before moving 🌀𓇼🌊🐚 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #artsky #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

Stunning freeform overshot scarf. You can create such beauty too 🌈 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #artsky #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #koginEmbroidery

A colorful handwoven jacket on an elderly mixed Balkan woman with short wavy gray hair, olive skin and glasses. She’s smiling. The rainbow fabric is a mix of twills and warp/weft color combos like royal purple, plum purple, jade green, gold and rust. The color overlaps create blues, brick red and more. Simple jewel neckline and straight front opening worn closed. Flared long sleeves. Pockets. She’s wearing black leggings. Behind her is a subtropical garden with flowers and a palm tree in a large beige plastered planter against a wall.

A Saori style jacket my mother sewed from #4Shaft cotton twill fabric she wove. Her loom is 40+ years old.

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Two obviously related brunette mixed Balkan people wearing glasses and black with black scarves that have alternating purple and turquoise motifs. An older woman on the left, shorter, above shoulder wavy gray hair, Saori style scarf. A younger middle aged person with a buzz cut and mud cloth motif scarf. Arm-arm, both smiling.

My mother & me. I wove her Saori scarf with Four Freeform Overshot Motifs for last Mother’s Day. I’m wearing my Mud Cloth Inspired Scarf. #Weavers #FiberArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #slowfashion #bskyweavers #Art #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #lgbtq #WeavingPatterns

Rainbow space dyed wild non-repeating spirals and waves covering a blue green background and scarf draped over a large wooden floor loom. The two sides look a little different on closer inspection: the right side is the “front” with the spirals created by the rainbow space dyed yarn. The left side is the “back” with green spirals on a rainbow background. Rainbow text above: Visit Lisa Rayner Handwovens on Etsy Purple text below: Pick up patterns for rigid heddle, shaft, frame & pin looms

My original Mermaid Scarf featured on the cover of Handwoven. 2.0 chart available on Etsy 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

Rainbow neon handwoven scarf with what look like light blue sea life patterns from this side. From bottom to top, the order of weaving: yellow scallop, orange queen conch, pink murex, magenta sand dollar, purple spotted cowrie. 45 degree angle twill dots of blue running lower left to upper right along length of scarf. Red brick patio underneath.

Half of my Seashell Scarf back after wet finishing, 12 patterns in all 𓇼🌊🐚 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #artbiz #artsky #weavesky #RigidHeddleWeaving #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #koginEmbroidery

The *back* of the murex motif on my original Seashell Scarf. Freeform overshot creates reversible fabric. #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #Seashell

A navy blue scarf width fabric on a small wooden rigid heddle loom. A large turquoise murex shell motif is at the top near the heddle has handwoven detailing of the different shell sections expressed in twills: smooth mouth, spiral points around the top outside, a stripey spiral middle, sharp frills near the bottom point. Below is a plain weave color spectrum of reddish plums-lavender-violet.

My last big freeform overshot motif on this warp. San Diego here I come 𓇼🌊🐚 Visit my Etsy shop 🌀 #FiberArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #artsky #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

A collage of four rectangular plain weave sections. Top to bottom in clockwise direction: teal-mint-lime-chartreuse, plum, magenta-lavender-violet, blueberry speckled-teal-turquoise, yellow orange-orange-light red-magenta.

I wove an iridescent looking color spectrum section after the freeform overshot double spiral 🌈 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #Art #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

A collage of me wearing the goddess ruana (left) and a narrow photo on the right of the back of the scarf: the ruana is a very colorful multistriped fabric open in the front except for a large colorful lampwork button. The fuchsia scarf with goddess motifs in rainbow colors is attached at the back of the neck and hangs loose in front. The back of the scarf shows that freeform overshot is reversible. The motifs are dark fuchsia with neon rainbow pattern weft backgrounds, the colors switching in between each motif.

My Goddess Scarf as a collar for a ruana, plus the back of the scarf off the loom showing that freeform overshot is reversible. 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #QueerArtist #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #goddesses

A double spiral, the middle spiral of three spirals in my freeform overshot goddess pattern charts. Also sold alone.
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