Books, Articles, and Films by WARP Members

Block Weaves Block Weaves
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.
DVD Madelyn van der Hoogt
Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools: Collected Works from the Save the Sheep Project Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools: Collected Works from the Save the Sheep Project
Starting in 1997, the Spin-Off editorial team struck out to enlighten spinners about rare-breed wools and in 2000 published the book Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools. This was the guidebook to go...
Book or PDF Deborah Robson
Samplers You Can Use: A Handweaver’s Guide to Creative Exploration Samplers You Can Use: A Handweaver’s Guide to Creative Exploration
Provides design guidelines for using woven samplers - threading and treadling variations, sett, yarn sizes and types, color, etc. - as the basis for finished functional or fiber-art pieces.
Book Penelope B. Drooker
Socks: A Spin-Off Special Publication for Spinners and Knitters, ed. Socks: A Spin-Off Special Publication for Spinners and Knitters, ed.
Instructions for 20 different handspun, handknitted socks, including hiking socks, knee socks, lace socks, and much more, as well as notes on spinning, choosing equivalent commercial yarns, and techniques. (Note: This book...
Book Deborah Robson and Rita Buchanan
Spin to Weave Spin to Weave
Spinning can add another dimension of creativity to handwoven fabrics. Fiber choices, preparation, yarn finishing and fabric finishing are all discussed. The book is highlighted with projects created from handspun yarns, both...
Book Sara Lamb
The Practical Spinner’s Guide to Spinning Silk The Practical Spinner’s Guide to Spinning Silk
An overview of what silk preparations are available to the handspinner, how to spin and finish yarns made from silk, and how to use them in a variety of projects shown, made...
Book Sara Lamb
The Weaver’s Companion The Weaver’s Companion
This compact, sturdy, spiral-bound volume helps weaver's keep track of the details. It's all here: sett and sleying charts, formulas for calculating warp and weft, fiber identification tests, basic weave drafts, finishing...
Book Marilyn Murphy and Linda Lignon
The Weaver’s Studio: Doubleweave The Weaver’s Studio: Doubleweave
Doubleweave is the art of weaving two layers of cloth at the same time, one above the other on the loom, creating beautiful cloth that is reversible yet unique on each side.
Book Jennifer Moore
Warping Your Loom Warping Your Loom
108 minutes. Shows complete and detailed steps for successful, trouble-free warping.
DVD Madelyn van der Hoogt
Weaving Deflected Doubleweave Weaving Deflected Doubleweave
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.
DVD Madelyn van der Hoogt
Weaving Lace Weaving Lace
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.
DVD Madelyn van der Hoogt
Weaving Made Easy Weaving Made Easy
This book was written for those who know nothing about weaving or the rigid-heddle loom, but they are eager and ready to learn! The rigid-heddle loom is widely recognized as the gateway...
Book Liz Gipson
Weaving Summer & Winter, A Weave for All Seasons Weaving Summer & Winter, A Weave for All Seasons
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...
DVD Madelyn van der Hoogt
Weaving Well Weaving Well
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...
DVD Madelyn van der Hoogt
Woven Shibori Woven Shibori
This is the book that documents and "gives away" the process I developed of woven resists: a true marriage of weaving and dyeing. It's a book for weavers, but it has actually...
Book Catharine Ellis
Woven to Wear: 17 Thoughtful Designs with Simple Shapes Woven to Wear: 17 Thoughtful Designs with Simple Shapes
More than just patterns - discover 17 designs and plenty of ideas for unique fabric and garments you'll want to wear again and again. Marilyn Murphy offers guidance for weaving scarves, wraps,...
Book Marilyn Murphy
Woven Treasures Woven Treasures
A book for beginning weavers, using a rigid heddle loom and traditional rug techniques from around the world to make simple projects. From plain weave to soumak, twining, knotted pile, and tablet...
Book Sara Lamb
Your Weaving Teacher Your Weaving Teacher
A column in Handwoven Magazine for 9 years written under the name Debbie Redding.  A column written to help weavers, beginners and others, understand all aspects of weaving, mostly on four or...
Magazine Deborah Chandler
WARP Member Organization Oaxaca Cultural Navigator leads textile tours in Mexico. Photo: Norma Schafer
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