Weaving Draft Archive
This website contains 56956 hand weaving drafts, with more being added often.
Each draft includes the standard threading, tieup, treadling, and color drawdown. Drafts can be viewed, printed, and downloaded in WIF format.
You can easily share your own drafts with other weavers here using our draft contribution page.
Samples of a few of the drafts on the site are shown below. You can click on each to go to its detail page.
Griswold Digital Archive of Documents on Hand Weaving, Lace, and Related Topics
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Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive of Documents on Hand Weaving, Lace, and Related Topics is now part of this site!
This is a fascinating and useful library of more than 8000 high quality digital reproductions of original works including over 140,000 pages. Any of these works can be obtained
with just a few clicks.
Handweaving.net Store
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We offer low cost CD-ROMs of many drafts and nearly all of the documents in the Griswold Archive on Weaving, Textiles, Lace, and Related Topics.
Our CDs are easy to use and work with any type of computer.
CD purchases and donations help us to continue freely providing and expanding this site for all.
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A Tale of Two Tie-Ups (And How They Grew) by Paul R. O'Connor is now available in our web store!
He's done it again! Just when you thought you might have heard the last possible word on double weave from Paul O'Connor, he's brought out a new book, and in a new format.
A Tale of Two Tie-Ups (And How They Grew) describes how the two basic double weave tieups grow first to 14 tieups and then to many hundreds of tieups, most of which can be mixed, stirred, shaken, and combined to create color-and-weave effects in double weave on looms with any number of shafts.
This wonderful CD book is chock full of clear illustrations and photos of actual samples woven by Paul, and the text is Paul's usual
detailed discussion of what led him down this path.
In addition to the book itself in PDF format, the CD contains WIF files for all the hundreds of possible ways of tying up for color-and-weave effect double weave.
[Description by Ruth Blau]
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A Twill of Your Choice - the CD is now available in our web store.
This CD by Paul R. O'Connor and Margaret Coe is a new edition of the
book originally published by Interweave Press. It contains the color-and-weave designs of its predecessor
along with many more new additions.
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Weaving Gallery
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Be sure to visit our online Weaving Gallery with pictures of items woven from drafts obtained here.
We have received some photos of exceptional weaving and encourage you to browse through the gallery! We welcome gallery submissions from
all Handweaving.net visitors, so please consider sending pictures of your work for the gallery to inspire others around the world.
The picture at the left from the Gallery shows a beautiful Tencel Beaded Scarf and Matching Purse.
It was woven by Jo-Anne Swain in Australia using a draft dated 1677 from Weber Kunst und Bild Buch by Marx Ziegler that was obtained here.
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