Handwoven Winter 2025

Bring the great outdoors inside with you this winter with new ideas and inspiration from rolling landscapes.

The ten enticing projects in this issue provide a variety of ways for you to experiment with ups and downs. You’ll find a runner in overshot that uses an exuberant yarn for patterning, and another runner with fabric strips outlining honeycomb cells. One scarf has ruffles created by differential shrinkage, and another has a secret passage! We have dish towels with waffles, dish towels with tumbling dice, and dish towels that reward tie-up and treadling explorations. To wrap things up, this issue has a Shetland fringe to weave and dip-dye, and a Shaggy-Bag Story that shows you how to make an actual shaggy bag.

What structures do they use? You’ll find honeycomb, monk’s belt, plain weave (with rya knots), waffle weave, basketweave, doubleweave, overshot, and twill. With projects woven in wool, cotton, Tencel, bamboo, and fabric strips, there’s a lot of variety to experiment with.

You’ll also read about weaving structures and techniques, and much more, including:

• Tom Knisely samples a group of structures that rely on color-and-weave.
• Media Picks considers a pair of books about weaving passementerie.
• Handwoven creator Linda Ligon’s journey from dining room table to publishing powerhouse.
• A weaver and the art prompt that led her to share her creative skills online.
• Yarn Lab’s first look at how the new yarn Zephira compares to the beloved Zephyr.

Plan your wintertime projects with the ideas you’ll find in Handwoven Winter 2025.

Articles

• Notes from the Fell — Sampling Close Color-and-Weave Relations, by Tom Knisely
• 50 Years of Weaving in the House That Linda Built, by Anne Merrow
• 100 Days of Shadow Weave, by Rebecca Winter
• Media Picks — Passementerie, by Jessica Light, and Passementerie, by Elizabeth Ashdown; reviewed by Christina Garton
• Yarn Lab — Still Mourning Zephyr? Please Meet Zephira!, by Denise Bolger Kovnat

Projects

• ON THE COVER: Misty Mountains Runner, by Dana Lutz (8-shaft)
• A Shaggy-Bag Story, by Linda Ligon (2-shaft)
• Magic Ruffles Scarf, by Jennifer Sargent (8-shaft)
• Garden Path Towels, by Malynda Allen (4-shaft)
• Secret Passage Scarf, by Marcia Toms (8- or 4-shaft)
• Blueberry Waffle Towels, by Claudia Tokola (7-shaft)
• Making Waves Runner, by Andrea Williams (4-shaft)
• Dicey Dish Towels, by Sheila O’Hara (16-shaft)
• Birds of a Feather Scarf, by Alison Stewart-Guinee (6- or 4-shaft)
• Book Excerpt — Dip-Dyed Shetland Fringe, by Elizabeth Ashdown (RH or 2-shaft)

Please see Corrections 2025 for additional information.