Available to order now HERE, the latest edition of my Weaving for Beginners book includes, for the first time, both US and metric measurements.| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
ORDER HERE New for this edition of the book is an envelope inside the front cover. Inside is a poster with directions for warping the loom. One side for “Back-to-Front” the other side for “Front-to-Back”. This is the poster that is inside the envelope inside the front cover. It has illustrations and page numbers for ... Read more| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
Here’s my first finished piece from “that” warp mentioned in the last two posts. LINK + LINK It was accepted in an important show at the O’Hanlon Gallery in Mill Valley, California. LINK The juror …| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
This post is about “that” warp I thought about giving up on in my last post. I got 3 pieces out of that 5-yard warp so far and am working on the final one still. They are pinned on the wall for now…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
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
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
