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I’ve been designing the samples for my magazine article on color, and have been having fun with yarn wraps and Photoshop.  It’s astonishing how color, and proportion of color, impacts the “feel” of a piece.  For example, here are combinations of the same three colors, in the same pattern: They have totally different “feels”, depending [...]

For my article on color, I wanted some low-chroma (“dull”) colors in monochrome.  I remembered seeing some lovely colorgrown cotton for quite reasonable prices at Chamomile Connection, so I ordered some in olive, sage, and white.  It arrived yesterday, and to my absolute horror, it looked like this: This would NOT do for the article; [...]

In between winding bouts of the 37-yard warp (fifteen bouts down, nine to go), I’ve been frantically sketching out the framework for my article about color.  I have a pretty decent understanding of basic color theory, but one could write entire books about color theory (and many people have!).  How to distill the basics down [...]

For an article I’m writing, I need to weave a couple of quick samples, all in different structures, from the same profile draft, and about 4-5 inches square (they’re destined to be mug rugs).  For efficiency, I wanted to get as many structures as possible from the same threading.  All structures had to be weavable [...]