*PREORDER* The Best Weaving Advice (Nobody Listens To)

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This book will not teach you how to weave.

What it will do is help make your weaving more enjoyable, more productive, and so much easier. We’ve written down the key bits of weaving wisdom we’ve picked up over the years: mindset tweaks, best practices, keys to happy weaving. It has the kind of advice we share at workshops and with each other–the things you usually need a good weaving friend to hear about. 

It won’t teach you how to wind a bobbin, but it will tell you why curiosity is more important than creativity, how to weave through troublesome projects, and that you should just go ahead and buy good tools (and maybe that big loom you’ve been thinking about). 

Written with humour and passion, The Best Weaving Advice Nobody Listens To gives you a window into the weaving practice of two friends who love weaving and love talking about it… to anyone who is willing to listen.

Sneak Peak Inside

Be Curious.

The number of people who tell us they “aren’t creative” within the first few sentences of the introductions in a beginner weaver class makes us want to scream. Creativity is a skill. It’s not something you’re born with; it’s something you learn. And you frankly don’t need a well-developed sense of creativity to be a very solid weaver. What will make you a solid weaver (and incidentally, what will start slowly but surely building those creativity muscles) is curiosity.

Curiosity is a mindset that stays open to questions and experimentation. Being curious means getting out of the production space (e.x. I am making a scarf) into the learning space (e.x. Would this weave structure and/or fibre and/or sett make a good scarf?). Let yourself wonder “What would happen if…” and then run as many of those experiments as possible. When you try something new, stay curious about the results: how it feels, how it looks (up close and far away), how it shrinks, how it drapes.

Product Details

Author(s): Jamie Hurlburt & Kim McCollum
Publisher: Gather Press
Size: 7.0" x 5.0"
Pages: 122 pages
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9781069577108

About the Author(s)

Jamie Hurlburt is a handweaver and weaving instructor who only feels truly relaxed when sitting at a loom. At Gather they are the expert in rigid heddle looms: small, simple looms with lots of potential. They also teach four shaft weaving and writes content for the Gather blog, troubleshooting series, and online learning. They sell their weaving under the name Booj Wovens, as well as exploring sacred weaving and inter-faith textile projects. They are passionate about welcoming new weavers to the craft and about bringing weaving into community spaces.

Kim McCollum is the owner of Gather Textiles. There are many strands to her weaving practice. As a workshop instructor, she has taught hundreds of new weavers how to create cloth and design woven pieces. She has travelled to Morocco, India, and across the United States and Canada to learn about and teach weaving. Kim is also a working visual artist who earned an MFA from the University of Alberta in 2020. Her paintings and textile art explore the intersection of craft traditions and contemporary art through the structure of the grid. As a designer, she leads Gather’s pattern development and creative direction. Kim is constantly on the lookout for ways to grow communities around craft.