Ideas in Weaving

Ann Sutton's The Structure of Weaving is widely regarded as essential in any weaver's library, and it has been adopted as the first and second year textbook in colleges throughout Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and Scandinavia. Now, with Diane Sheehan, she goes beyond the knowledge and manipulation of structure to help weavers produce cloth that is exciting as well as technically correct. By examining some of the great textile ideas of the past and relating them to the stages of making a woven cloth, the auuthors aim to give confidence to all weavers, at whatever level of attainment, to have the ideas that will make the cloth of today as exciting and glorious as the fabrics of the past. With games, exercises and breathtaking photographs by David Cripps, the authors show how breaking rules, finding new ways of adapting equipment, re-discovering neglected properties of yarns and fibres can all add that extra dimension that turns a good textile into something great.