102 minutes. Shows how to read and create block drafts and how to use them with specific weave structures. Includes a handbook with exercises, resources, and more.

57 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. This is Marilyn's most popular class, in a box! The Ulo Akha peoples of Northern Thailand use these beaded bands to decorate their elaborate traditional...

1 hour 13 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. What a twist! Kumihimo is an ancient Japanese braiding technique, normally used with silk strands. But in this class, we use the wooden...

65 minute documentary video program by Marilyn Romatka. Weave with nothing but a deck of cards? Can it be true? Yes! Card Weaving (aka Tablet Weaving) is a very old technique, first...

A 30-minute introduction to using the continuous strand weaving method on rectangle frame looms of all sizes. Includes design and project examples for both small rectangles and large adjustable ones. http://www.hillcreekfiberstudio.com/

This documentary film explores the history of natural brown cotton in southwest Louisiana and examines its origins and use among the people of Acadiana. Rich in oral history, the film tells the...

Step-by-step instructions for weaving a two-layer sampler on four shafts. Learn to weave separate layers, double-width cloth, tubes, slits, color-and-weave effects, stitched cloth, simple pique, quilted cloth and top layer laces. 2...

Learn how to weave any image you would like to create through pick-up on two layers of cloth. Detailed demonstrations teach you how to design and follow a graph, accurately create the...

50 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. These geometric gems are hand-crafted in China, filled with insect-repelling herbs, and hung up during the Dragonboat Festival in the hot 5th month of the...

Under the umbrella of her non-profit Endangered Threads, Kathleen Vitale produced nineteen documentaries and interviews with and about the Maya in Guatemala and Mexico, all of which can now be seen on...

47 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. Delightfully easy and deceptively complex, these stars are popular in Europe, especially at Christmas time to hang in windows with light coming through them. They...

Video (about 6 minutes in length) directed by Melissa Gagliardi, documenting the design and making by Mary Flad of a tapestry for installation in Fallkill Commons, a supportive housing project in New...

2 hour 16 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. Woven cloth is ubiquitous in today’s world. We often take it for granted, unfortunately. Like learning the basics of playing the piano –...

120 minute full length documentary film by Marilyn and Rainer Romatka. We are taking a unique view of hand-weaving in the movie, focusing on relationship. This is a documentary film that tells...

1 hour 5 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. Temari balls are exquisitely wound and embroidered gems that are given in Japan as a very special gift to a loved one on...

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A documentary film co-produced with Bill Jungels, 2017. Available on YouTube, also with Spanish sub-titles. The film includes interviews with two weavers from Chenalhó, Chiapas as well as other young Maya men...

The ancient craft of backstrap weaving is still practiced by many indigenous weavers across the world today. The loom, which comprises nothing more than a set of simple sticks, allows weavers to...

56 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. Nothing feels better –– than making something out of nothing! Join us for a lesson in doing just that; from pine needles to useful, hand-crafted...

My research and writing focus on the production, exchange & display of textiles in contemporary indigenous cultures & European medieval societies. With the Field Museum I worked for several years with Shipibo...

Silk Fusion is a unique process that bonds silk fibres into a lustrous kind of "felt" which can be gossamer and transparent or thick and opaque as leather. Eight projects are presented...

Textile Traditions of the Peruvian Highlands, a video with a plus. Designed as a live Zoom presentation for groups, it includes both a video narrated by Jennifer Moore and the real time...

59 minute documentary video program by Marilyn Romatka. Travel to India in this multi-media presentation. We weavers delight in items crafted by the human hand, and the traditional crafts found in the...

54 minute documentary video program by Marilyn Romatka. Enter the land of the wonders that come off the back-strap loom. Guatemala is a country long recognized by the weaving world as one...

32 minutes. A visionary leader in Bangladesh frees herself and hundreds of other women and families from poverty and social hardships by creating timeless works of art. Winner of three film festival...

90-minute Workshop Video. This video takes the viewer step-by-step through the process of weaving a triangle shawl and adding a second triangle to make a ruana, turning that into a jacket or...

49 minute documentary video program by Marilyn Romatka. Experience the exotic in your own home town; travel to Central Asia in this multi-media presentation. We have all seen Uzbek Ikat on the...

51 minute instructional video with Marilyn Romatka. This chain looks exquisite and complicated, but the process is simple and straightforward. Examples of these chains have been found in various archeological sites in...

108 minutes. Shows complete and detailed steps for successful, trouble-free warping.

79 minutes. Shows how to design, draft, weave, and wet-finish deflected doubleweave fabrics (both flat fabrics and dimensional fabrics created with differential shrinkage). Includes a handbook with exercises and projects to try.

109 minutes. Thoroughly covers drafting and weaving huck lace, Atwater-Bronson lace, and Swedish lace. Demonstrates how to create original designs and choose appropriate materials and setts. Includes a comprehensive handbook.

50 minutes. Shows how to design, draft, and weave summer and winter with treadling variations to create different effects. Gives ideas for playing with colors and materials and includes a handbook with...

122 minutes. Gives weaving tips and techniques for achieving smooth selvedges and evenly woven cloth, handling shuttles, avoiding and fixing errors, choosing and matching colors, yarns, and setts with weave structures, and...

Feature length documentary directed by Bennie Klain of Trickster Films, Austin, TX, In this compelling and intimate portrait of economic and cultural survival through art, Navajo filmmaker Bennie Klain takes viewers into...

Jackie leads you through the complete process of weaving colorful and unique cathead baskets, using painted cotton paper. The instructions are accessible for all levels of basket makers, with many adaptations for...