What's New in The Loomy Bin

  • A new card weaving page with

    Kivrim patterns woven in the vacant-hole technique.

    These patterns are not easy to weave but fun to study for everybody. (May 2011)

  • People often ask me what I do with my many card woven bands. Here is a new and exciting way to use them: artwork for the book cover of Quantum Computing, A Gentle Introduction. (March 2011)

  • There is an addition to my saga of "Two-for-one scarves". It is an article in the October 2010 Journal of Complex Weavers. A study group in Germany got inspired by the original article and took the idea even further. Take a look at Fadenwechsel.(October 2010)

  • If you get the TWIST Journal/Spring 2010 you can find out what my idea of a good loom for card weaving is. You can also read it here and see bigger pictures. (April 2010)

  • If you read HANDWOVEN you may have seen my article "Two-for-one scarves in lazy lacy doubleweave!" in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue. The article is three pages long and describes a red and a blue scarf. They were woven simultaneously. There is also a smaller picture of a copper/grey/white scarf that was woven using the same technique but doublewidth. Space is limited in a printed magazine but I want to show you a few more pictures of the copper/grey scarf.(Dec 2009)

    Click to see a new addition. (April 2010)

  • A new, very simple pattern was added to the Ram's Horn page. (Sept. 2009)

  • Braids, Braids, and Braids - a new pattern page. (April 2009)

  • Those of you who saw me at Convergence 2008 and the Complex Weavers Conference in Florida may remember my tubular necklace with the TWIST pin. Later I wove a similar piece and wrote an article for Handwoven, Nov/Dec 2008, p. 62, 63. In the article I show how to weave a tubular piece and how to create a corkscrew effect. For some more thoughts on "Tubular Card Weaving with Extreme Twist" and pictures click here (Oct 2008).

  • I'll be teaching two seminars at the Complex Weavers Conference 2008 in St. Petersburg, Florida:

    Possibilities in Card Weaving Cross-pollination in Fiber Arts

  • A new TWIST Journal (Spring 2007) came out and it has an article of mine, "Anglo-Saxon - or Split Pack Card Weaving Technique". The picture portion can be viewed right here. (Apr 2007).

  • Check out my "Starry Scarf in Deflected Double Weave", Handwoven Magazine, Jan/Feb 2007

  • I will be teaching an introductory card weaving class at Custom Handweavers in Mountain View, CA on March 31, 2007.

  • Sometimes people ask me what I do to keep the ends of my bands from unraveling. The beginning is obvious, you weave the weft end in with the regular weft, one or two picks. But what do you do at the end? Go here and see how it is done.

  • A workshop in Berkeley, California: The friendly people at Lacis are giving me the opportunity to teach a workshop at their location. It'll be one day only, the date is Oct. 15, 2005. The teaching is a streamlined and enriched version of Day 1 of my workshop at CNCH 2005 in Asilomar/April this year. .You can see the full class description here. (Sept 2005)

  • I am pleased to let you know that an article of mine, "Design Challenge: Patterns on Both Sides", was published in the latest TWIST Journal, Fall 2004. The picture portion can be viewed right here (Nov 2004).

  • If you are looking for a good reason to travel to California next spring, here is one: CNCH, the Conference of Northern California Handweavers. The location is the scenic California coast, the facility is the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove which is close to Monterey and Carmel. Card weaving is one of the workshops, and I am honored to be accepted as a teacher. The dates are April 14-17, 2005. (Sept 2004)

  • I never told you that there were publications in 2002 of my shadow weave patterns.
        For details please visit my Shadow Weave page (Feb 2004)

    The Loomy Bin Software:

  • There is good news for Mac users: if your machine is a G4 running Mac OS X v10.2 using X11 or newer, you can run my card weaving application. To try it out, go to the download page and install the Unix version, file installcw.zip. (August 2003)

    • Card Weaving Pattern Library:

  • In support of the TWIST article "Design Challenge: Patterns on Both Sides" of Fall 2004, I updated the page Two Color Patterns (Nov 2004).

  • Many card weavers' first big challenge: the Ram's horn pattern (Sept 2004).

  • A new version of an old favorite, the Birka pattern as Egyptian diagonal. (Aug 2004).

  • And a knot pattern as Egyptian diagonal (Aug 2004).

  • Birka and Beyond - Part II - new pattern page. This page contains all patterns described in my article "Birka and Beyond - Part II" published in the TWIST Journal of Spring 2003. (April 2003)

  • Birka and Beyond - new pattern page. This page contains all patterns described in my article "Birka and Beyond" published in the TWIST Journal of Fall 2002. (November 2002)

  • Two Color Patterns - new pattern page (March 2002)

  • Andean Slings Braids. Updated - now has a 4-colour example (Feb 2002)

  • Kivrim page - page was updated with more patterns and photos. (Dec 2001)

  • Viking Patterns - New page (Oct 2001)

      

    Card Weaving:

  • I wrote up a description of a very simple card weaving project:

        "What is Card Weaving".

    It is a good project for any beginner, for public demonstrations, and especially for children. Consider this page to be a starting point to understanding how the threading of cards and rotation of cards create a pattern. (January 2004)

  • Syntax definition of pattern files - this is of interest to software developers who think about writing a card weaving design program. If you use this format or something compatible for the input file, users have a chance to use their patterns in both systems. (June 2002)

  • New version of card weaving software ready for downloading. This version is an application, needs no browser. (Jan 2002)

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