Best of Handwoven Technique Series: Shadow Weave Handwoven eBook (Printed version)

Shadow weave is the term commonly reserved for fabrics in which the color alternation is one-and-one. When other orders are used the effects are called "color-and-weave." The Best of Handwoven, Technique Series: Shadow Weave eBook brings together tips, tricks, and projects that explore both color-and-weave and shadow weave. Create scarves, towels, tops and more in this colorful weave structure.

Shadow weave was introduced to weavers in 1942, when Mary Meigs Atwater “invented” this incredibly versatile method of creating woven pattern.

Shadow weave had perhaps occurred somewhere, before, but never had it been identified in a way that allowed its application to be so vast.

Shadow weave is a subset of the category “color-and-weave.” This is the name given to fabrics in which the same alternating colors or groups of colors are used in both the warp and the weft. When you look at these fabrics, your eyes do not distinguish the difference between warp threads and weft threads (as they do with weaves such as twill, for example). Instead, you notice the difference between both warp and weft threads of one color vs warp and weft threads of the other color.

Use this eBook to learn how to design your own patterns in both color-and-weave and shadow weave as well as to weave these innovative and incredibly beautiful fabrics.

All of Halcyon Yarn's ebooks are printed in full color, saddle-stitched and ready for immediate browsing and convenient posting next to your loom.

Projects:

• Shadow-Weave Gamp on Four Shafts [4 shafts] by Jean Korus
• Subtle Choices for a Shadow-Weave Purse [4 shafts] by Janice Jones
• Strip-Woven Kente Cloth in Shadow Weave [4-8 shafts] by Bren Ahearn
• Chenille Scarf in Shadow Weave [4 shafts] by Jean Korus
• Falling-Leaves Shadow-Weave Sweater [4 shafts] by Alison Irwin and Jean Scorgie
• Shell Top in Shadow Weave [4 shafts] by Terry Newhouse Flynn
• Color-and-Weave and Rosepath [4 shafts] by Margaret B. Windeknecht
• Color-and-Weave Scarves [4 shafts] by Margaret B. Windeknecht
• Star Towels in Color-and-Weave [4 shaft] by Britt-Marie Lamb
• The Thick and Thin of Shadow Weave [4 shafts] by Jane Evans
• Huck-Lace Blouse and Shadow-Weave Jacket [4 shafts] by Jean Scorgie