I enjoy playing with weave structures. I love visual, and actual, textures. Dyeing yarns and playing with color is fun. I will also giving a talk at my gu...

In the last weeks of the new year I designed and wove a series of scarves. I am presenting them to you all as a design challenge. It is a way to refresh you...

We have reached the end. We have reached the beginning. I have written on all the elements and principles of design, the end of the list has been reached. ...

You may be asking yourself, so what? Where is this going? What is the point? You spend time and money weaving. Whether it is a hobby or a profession you i...

When you think of texture, what comes to mind? The great novelty yarn you bought because you couldn’t live without it and now, don’t know what to do with it...

Color, also called hue, is your crayon box. It is the rainbow plus all those earthy tones and any other one you can imagine. I am not going to take on the i...

Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue (color). Hue will be discussed in the next section. For now I will stick with value It is easier to find the va...

Summer and Winter weave featuring stars and stripes Shape here refers not to the overall dimensions of an object (format) but to the use of shapes on the sur...

Lines created by supplementary warp, tacked down with an occasional weft thread. Where do you find a line in weaving? Let’s start with the obvious; a thread...

How on earth do you begin something like this? That has been my conundrum for some time. First, an introduction, my name is Sara Nordling. I am a weaver wi...