When the author of an instructional book on weaving has taught weaving for 30 years, readers can trust they're in good hands. That's surely the case with this, the first book by the author, full of ...

In this challenging manual, weaving instructor Knisely (Spinning 101) details how to transform old clothes, blankets, and other pieces of fabric into rugs. Knisely offers a detailed overview of looms ...

When Athel “Louise” Edmonds Ledbetter was a girl in Henderson County, she learned to weave the rugs that would sustain her family through the lean war years and decades beyond. A longtime vendor at ...

Photo provided Dee Nierman’s mother is shown in the past at the 1864 loom that Nierman uses today. Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman lets it be known right at the top of a conversation that, at 87 years old, ...

Allentown rug weaver Bob Kleckner slips the shuttle containing the filler (the fabric from which the carpet is made) through the warp, then uses a beater bar to push the newly woven row into place.

The Loom Loft is new in the schoolhouse of Roscoe Village and features weaving demonstrations and classes on old-fashioned looms with Rami Sawyer. Three different classes are being offered at 10:30 ...