Yarn
Guides
These yarn guides will help you learn all about the different types of yarns that you can use in your weaving studio! What makes a good weaving yarn? What are your options and what do they mean? How do you store and organize them?
A Guide To Novelty Yarns For Weaving
Weaving yarn is usually smooth, strong, and easily threaded through the heddles of your floor loom or rigid heddle loom. These types of yarns can make a great choice for your warp (depending on what you are creating). Weft yarns, on the other hand, can be pretty much...
How To Make Paper Yarn
Creating yarn out of alternative materials has become sort of a tradition here at Warped Fibers because I am always looking at ways to upcycle materials and create something unique! I have also previously discussed weaving with paper as it pertains to paper strips...
Weaving With Wool – Material Spotlight
Weaving and wool go hand-in-hand. In fact, tapestry would not be as we know it today without the use of wool as a common material used in weaving. So what is it about wool that has made such a huge part of the history of weaving itself? How can we use it today to its...
Natural Synthetic Yarns – Tencel, Modal, Rayon, & Viscose
No, that is not a typo! Most of us have heard of the two main types of yarn: natural and synthetic. These two yarn types are characterized by not only what they are made of but also how they are made. These yarns also have subcategories that further characterize them...
Yarn Ball Winding Options – Preparing Your Weaving Yarn
Depending on your yarn buying options you may never need any of these tools to wind yarn. This is because weaving yarn most often comes already wound onto a cone or tube ready to go. This makes setting up your loom or winding your shuttles simple! That being said, you...
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