A few years ago I wove ruffles out of fine threads. This summer I decided to make another warp using those threads again. Here is my saga. I’m trying to show how fine the threads I’m working with a…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
"Weaving should be fun!"| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
I wrote these 3 red books to pass on the production weaving techniques I learned in a Production Weaving class at Pacific Basin School of Textiles in the 1970’s. Jim Ahrens was the teacher. At the time he was also teaching John Violet how he built his production looms. That was the beginning of AVL looms.| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
I wrote these 3 red books to pass on the production weaving techniques I learned in a Production Weaving class at Pacific Basin School of Textiles in the 1970’s. Jim Ahrens was the teacher. At the …| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
My Problem:When I was weaving the cloth for my vest with the comic paper thread the problem happened when I threw the tabby wefts. Everytime I threw the shuttle the bobbin kept over-spinning and ta…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
I’m organizing silks I dyed with Avocado PitsGetting them all lined up nicely is taking patience.Note: The colors are somewhat off. They should be more pinkish. I’m using silverware to hold pieces …| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
Introduction: None of the pieces I submitted to the collage show, “Bits and Pieces” were accepted! I knew I was pushing it by sending my weavings, and I’m not devastated or angry, or even disappoin…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
This is a velvet collage made of 17 separate pieces. In a velvet workshop with Barbara Setsu Pickett we made a warp about 5 inches wide: 4 inches of velvet plus small borders. Everyone took home their samples, but I took home the loom and unused warp threads. That meant a 5” black cotton warp ... Read more| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
Introduction. As you may know, Jim Ahrens, the loom builder and the “A” part of AVL Looms was my mentor and what I learned from him is the bones of my books and teaching. This 4-shaft Ahrens …| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
The vest complete with its button! It was on a stand beside my display at Asilomar. Here’s my display table. Next to my vest I had this handling piece so people wouldn’t touch the vest. Notice evid…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
I got the cloth woven after much spinning of comic papers for the wefts. 3/2 pearl cotton was the warp. The pattern was one of my experiments in my point twill sampler (4 shafts). My friend who di…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
The new printing of my book Weaving for Beginners –the FOURTH EDITION is almost ready. Available NOW is the PDF VERSION! Check my website for “Books and DVD”. HERE FREE ON YOUTUBE! My video (AKA DV…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
Determining sett by getting the diameters on a ruler is easy to do with a heavy yarn, but it would be terribly hard with a slippery, or nubbly, or fine thread. There’s a way to find the diame…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
