"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."
--- Marc Chagall
Color Wheel
Color Wheel
Tien Chiu
Color Theory
Martian Color Wheel
--- Marc Chagall
Color Wheel
Color Wheel
Tien Chiu
Color Theory
Martian Color Wheel
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- This Is Your Brain on Crafting (CNN)
- Crafting can help those who suffer from anxiety, depression or chronic pain, experts say
- It may also ease stress, increase happiness by releasing neurotransmitter called dopamine
- Leisure activities such as reading and crafting may protect brain from aging, study finds
- How Craft is Good For Our Health
- Organizations
- Online Groups & Sites with Lots of Information
- HandWeaving.net maintained by Kris Bruland with over 74,626 (in 7/2021; 60,018 in 2015; 41,000 a few years before) weaving drafts (and growing)
- Weaving Archive of Ralph Griswold's collection of books and drafts at U. of Arizona
- AntiquePatternLibrary.org scanned craft pattern publications that are in the public domain
- HandwovenMagazine.com from Handwoven Magazine
- HeddleCraft.com
- Ravelry.com
- Weavolution.com
- WeaveTech at Groups.io
- Miles Visman provides the capability of creating advancing twill drafts
- Olivier Masson
- AVL Weavers
- AhrensLooms.com lots of pre-AVL history & information by Peggy Osterkamp
- TienChiu.com - (Busy Weaver with AVL) - WarpAndWeave.com
- BlazingShuttles.com - beautiful space-dyed warps - on Facebook & Warp of the Month Club
- Shiney Dime Fibers Painted Tencel Warps
- CoeWeaves.com Marg Coe - includes weaving calculators
- Philis Alvic - A founding member of the Sixteens
- Alice Schlein has a Blog
- Sandra Rude Blog weaver with AVL Jacq3G & 24-Shaft AVL
- Kerstin Swedish Weaver's Blog Bergdala Spinnhus website has articles on Two ways to mend a warp end & Pascal's triangle as a basis for colour transitions
- LauraFry.com Blog YouTube Channel Sectional Warping w/Pics
- MMs & OOs Handweaving has a AVL 60" PDL & 40" FDL
- Banner Mountain Textiles Beryl Moody posted Weaving Pics on Flickr
- AVL on Pinnterest
- WarpedAndWonderful.com Vila Cox
- Sharon Alderman Blog
- Robin Spady's Blog
- MuffyYoung.com on FaceBook
- RunamuckWeaving Camp Runamuck, Where dogs, Cats, Horses, and Looms All Run Amuck!
- TheOregonWeaver.com Karen Gelbard - handwoven jackets and scarves
- Bonnie Inouye on facebook Blog
- Sue Butler
- Sigrid Piroch
- Sheila O'Hara Brilliant Weaver
- Evelyn Oldroyd - Stitched Double Cloth (14-Nov-09) & Diversified Plain Weave (19-Sept-09)
- weavewright.blogspot.com Anne Niles Davenport
- eweniquely ewe fiber creations
- Dianne's Loom Talk New Zealand
- WarpologyStudio.com Lois Erbland
- Denise Kovnat
- Bobbi Irwin author of Weaving Iridescence (for sale on her website)
- How to Warp a Floor Loom Front to Back (YouTube) from RigidHeddleWeaving.com
- Weaving a Gem of a Life Peg Cherre
- Eva Stossel's Weaving Blog has articles on Echo Weave & Gebrochene Twill & Warp Painting: Turned Taqueté & Plain Weave
- MarcyPetrini.com has compiled a "Pictionary" of Weaving Structures
- Susan Harvey Vancouver island, Canada - Snowflake Twills
- WeavingIndiana.org library: - The Eleanor Best Collection of Workshops and Handouts & Midnight Streamers Guild Scarf Exhibition based upon the Aurora Borealis
- Sensational Towels from PikesPeakWeavers.org
- WeaveNotes.Net Judie's Eatough's Weaving Notes
- SoftWeave.com Software and Weaving by Jane Eisenstein
- Mary Jean Betts
- Daryl Lancaster Blog
- Weavers School Madeline van der Hoogt
- Bonnie Tarses 12 Days of Weaving (YouTube Video)
- Kris Abshire lives in alaska; paints her warps
- Sarah Saulson painted warps and other weaves
- Rosalie Nelson Warp-faced Rep Weave & Kumihimo Braiding
- Eleanor Pritchard beautiful website; inspirational weaving
- Marian Stubenitsky - author of the must-have book Weaving with Echo and Iris
- Unravelling by MegWeaves - "Weaving, living a life of a weaver, and other unravelling thoughts by the Goddess of Procrastination and Expert Forgetter" - post on Davison, Bergman, and Quigley
- CoverletWeaver.com by Gay McGeary - inspired by the works of early Pennsylvania Germans
- Weaving modern cloth with Victorian looms BBC Video Documentary on the London Cloth Company and it's antique equipment
- PlainWeave.net Plain Weave and beyond - Elizabeth Hill - faculty member at Vavstuga Weaving School
- IowaWeaver.blog
- Ruby Leslie Creative Weaver - Good with Color
- Doubleweave by Jennifer Moore
- Trudie Roberts developed the trademarked California Rags technique used in this Coat CyberFiberScriber Instructions Jacket Picture
- Mary E. Black Samples at the Nova Scotia Archives
- Cally Booker Complex Weaver in Scotland
- JoyOfWeaving.com Joyce Brisebois Best Tension Device Ever Joyce's comment="Thicker thread can handle crosses. Thinner thread is better going under and over all at the same time."
- Not2SquareWeavers
- vloom.org - Miles Visman - this site cannot be described - just visit it
- Summer-and-Winter to Taqueté by Lillian Whipple
- Designing for Summer and Winter and Taqueté by Lillian Whipple
- Woven Ratios by Barbara Walker - Balancing Color
- Kiss Me! I'm Irish! by Robyn Spady - Supplemental Warp Patterns
- Florida Fantasy by Jannie Taylor - Summer & Winter and Double Two-Tie Unit Weave
- Skirt by Selah Barling - fits well
- Painted Skein Warps with Bonus Content by Syne Mitchell
- Photographing Your Work by Daryl Lancaster
- Weaving Software on the Cheap by Marg Coe
- Three-Step Jacket Video Make it in 30 minutes (Threads Magazine)
- 30-Minute Cardigan Jacket (Threads Magazine)
- Get Weaving by Sarah Howard - Sewing patterns and booklets for handwoven fabric
- ArgoKnot.com posts Directions for a handwoven tote bag
- Donatella posts instructions on how to make a Bag from a 6.7-in x 90-in Strip of Cloth
- Florida Fantasy by Jannie Taylor - Summer & Winter and Double Two-Tie Unit Weave
- Skirt by Selah Barling - fits well
- Daryl Lancaster (also WeaverSew.com)
- Lego Small Mechanical Loom seems to be fully automated
- Selvedge Technique for Deflected Double Weave by Elizabeth Hill
- dismantling and deep cleaning a brother carriage by theanswerladyknits
- A Rocking Chair That Knits You a Hat as You Read the Paper
- Home Built Jacquard used a 3D printer - all documented in the public domain
- 3D Printed Circular Sock Knitting Machine
- Flatwater Electronics Loom Interface Repair WeaveZine Interview
- The Weavers Friend Loom Manuals, History and Resources
- Tom Beaudet "The Loom Doctor" - textile eng., Fiber Arts consultant. Leclerc Dealer. Custom designed looms & expert on Leclerc
- Leclerc Looms with links to Diagrams & Replacement Parts Catalog
- Macomber Looms has a Sales Rep Sarah Haskell SarahHaskell.com
- Comfort & Looms by Joanne Hall of Glimakra USA
- AVL Looms & AVL Manuals & Information & Blog & Pinterest
- AVL Tips:
- Fly Shuttle Conversion Sine Mitchell converted her fly-shuttle assembly from a pull-down mechanism to a side-to-side throw
- AVL Maintenance & Repair by Laura Fry
- Tien Chiu:
- How I Adjust My AVL Mechanical Dobby & CompuDobby
- Fiber Sett Charts:
- LunaticFringeYarns.com/yards-lb-cone
- NYhandWeavers.org/sley-sett-charts
- HandwovenMagazine.com => search for Master Yarn Chart (free account required)
- allfiberarts.com/2011/blsetts.htm
- Ashenhurst Calculator (based upon yards per pound) on Marg Coe's coeweaves.com site
- Golden Ratio Calculator
- Fibonacci Sequence
- Tessellations (e.g. Escher)
- tessellations.org How-to Escher-style & abstract
- www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/tessellation.html has an on-line Tessellation Artist
- Repper is a pattern creator that turns your images into designs
- Purls of Wisdom: The Geometry and Topology of Weavables, Wearables and Wallpaper - Elisabetta Matsumoto lecture at Georgia Tech - Note: Verda Elliot wrote an article on the 17 pattern types for Weavers 17
- Barcode Generators:
- www.the-qrcode-generator.com QR Code Generator - Squares
- www.qrstuff.com QR Code Generator - includes map locations
- Arecibo Interstellar Message:
- The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth sent to globular star cluster M13 in the hope that ...
- 23 columns and 73 rows (prime numbers)
- on Wikipedia with a svg file of colored message
- SETI Institute
- Cornell Chronicle 1999
- Have We Received a Response?
- from Utah.edu the message explained
- Color:
- ColorSchemeDesigner.com on-line design tool
- color.adobe.com on-line design tool & can also extract colors from an image
- Color Wheel & Theory
- Color Calculator from Sessions College for Professional Design
- Color Theory 101: selecting yarns that go together
- Color Theory Overview at worqtx.com
- Pantone Fashion Color Report: Fall 2014 - Fall 2016
- Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test evaluate your color perceptiveness
- ColorAndWeaving.BlogSpot.com
- Real Colors free tool - takes a picture and generates a palette
- PaletteFX.com Select a photo from your device to create a color palette
- Are your bright colors weaving into mud? Here's how to fix that. Tien Chiu
- Controlling the Primaries in Your Color Mixing from Handwoven Magazine
- Basic Color Theory Tutorial by ColorMatters.com
- Businesses:
- Vavstuga Weaving School NW Massachusetts
- Woolgathers Wisconsin has upgraded a Lilla into a Drawloom
- Weavers School Washington State - Madelyn van der Hoogt
- Glimakra
- Myrehed Drawloom Attachments Sweden
- Woolhouse Tools sells a 20+ tie-up system
- Technical:
- Satin Setts -
Sett of 20/2 cotton for 8-shaft satin is 60
For a silk blend with a plain weave sett of 60 epi, the calculated setts for a balanced twill, a 5-shaft satin and an 8-shaft satin are 80, 86 and 96 epi respectively (1.333, 1.433, 1.600 ratios) - Weaving Damask (as a drawloom with a regular countermarche) one of many articles at the Conference of Northern Handweavers
- Top O The Lamms Tie-up Jean Elizabeth Fiber Studio
- December 2017: a loom and a convenient treadle tie up method for countermarche looms Kay Faulkner
- Everything Youve Ever Wanted To Know By Madelyn Van Der Hoogt Tie-Up
- Understanding the Countermarche Loom by Sara von Tresckow
- Satin Setts -
Sett of 20/2 cotton for 8-shaft satin is 60
- Groups:
- Drawlooms: Pull the cord on Ravelry
- Drawloom Dreams is on Facebook
- Drawloom.net is a site that seems inactive
- Weavers with Drawlooms:
- Sally Eyring has a drawloom
- Kati Meek Author of Warp With a Trapeze and Dance With Your Loom
- Dawn McCarthy has several drawlooms
- WarpedForGood.com - Karen Isenhower - Pinterest has several drawlooms
- Duelling Rabbits has a shaft drawloom & posts YouTube videos
- Kathie Roig KMR Handwoven - paints her warps
- Teanaustaye Studio
- Shuttle Works Studio
- Kay Faulkner
- Justin Squizzero Vermont weaver using a double harness loom with antique jacquard performing pattern selection References the Harry Tyler (early 19th century New York jacquard weaver) Lion design that can be obtained from LongDogSampler & John Campbell of Ontario, Canada - find his presentation for the New York Textile Month on YouTube
- Patterns:
- Stitch Painter from Cochenille Design Studio - Convert Graphic into Grid
- PatternMakerCharts This blogger provides scans of old, uncopyrighted charted designs from all over the world. This link leads to an entry of charted letter designs from a 19th-century Russian embroidery book.
- Szydelkomania This website presents old charted designs from Poland. Scroll down to see the images.
- Artshare This interesting Russian website presents traditional patterns that have been revisited in a way that invites their use as charted patterns:
- qtp.hu site in Hungary that has all free charted patterns
- Tien Chiu's Comparison of the TC-2 and Jacq3G jacquard looms
- Margarita Benitez is developing an Open Source Jacquard Loom
- AVL Jacq3G & Info
- Sandra Rude's Blog weaver with AVL Jacq3G
- Cathy Bolding AVL/TIS Jacquard
- Sheila OHara AVL weaver
- Digital Weaving Norway TC-1 & TC-2
DigitalWeavingUSA.com
https://www.facebook.com/ThreadControllerDWN
http://www.dwn-tc2.blogspot.com/ - Belinda Rose weaver with TC-1
- LapinTextiles.com Carla Tilghman - TC-1 weaver
- Bhakti Ziek TC-1 Weaver
- Lia Cook - Video of Lia's Jacquard Loom
- JacqCAD software - now free - runs on old Macs or install Sheepsaver
- Arahne Software
- Home Built Jacquard used a 3D printer - all documented in the public domain
- Justin Squizzero Vermont weaver using a double harness loom with antique jacquard performing pattern selection
- Robin Kang - Virtual Studio Visit - TC2 Weaver - YouTube presentation
- The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jacquard Weaving and Designing, by T. F. Bell originally written in 1895
- AllBrands Sewing, Vacuums & Appliances (+ knitting machines, etc) - they used to be cheap
- Reeds & Heddles:
- Gowdey Reed: Website has been making reeds for 175 years in Central Falls, Rhode Island (my favorite)
- Reedsweare on eBay
- Carolina Reeds
- Weaving & Fiber Design Software:
- Fiberworks PCW Weave Simulator & Loom Control
- Proweave Cameron Fiber Arts - Weave Simulator & Loom Control - Ver 6.1 was released in November 2015
- WeaveIt Weave Simulator & Loom Control
- Quick Draw Weaving Software Free, Windows OS, up to 32 shafts & also has design for Arduino Loom Control
- WeaveMaker Weave Simulator & Loom Control
- Cochenille Design Studio Stitch Painter and Garment Designer
- WIF n Proof for iPods and iPads
- WeaveDesign Freeware Software Program for Creating Weaving Drafts and Drawdowns (supports both single harness and drawloom drafts)
- Patternland Weave Simulator Maple Hill Software - last release in 2000
- Pixie Loom Weave Simulator & Loom Control (No CompuDobby I) is sold at SueFairchild.com
- pyweaving Python Weaving Tools - Parse and write WIF files, Render weave drafts to PDF or SVG
- ThunderLoom C++ code in github that can read and parse weaving-data stored in WIF files
- www.brunoldsoftware.ch/dbw.html - freeware weaving software (VERY nice but not on 64-bit Windows7)
- Weaving Software on the Cheap by Marg Coe (Weavezine 2009)
- Wif2Tiff reads WIF files and translates them into drawdown images that it can save as TIFF graphics files
- freeweave.sourceforge.net Sourceforge Open Source Weaving Simulator
- Jacqcad Free & powerful software for old MACs
- Arahne CAD/CAM for Weaving -
- Adobe Photoshop CS2 Free Adobe has released this legacy version of the ever popular Photoshop as freeware.
- GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) The Free & Open Source Image Editor
- InkScape Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source.
- Knitting Machines
- Un-sticking Stuck Buttons on a Brother knitting machine answerladyknits video
- Kano Aero Kroil oil penetrating aerosol (24 hour action)
- then LPS1 to drive out the Kroil & replace with sillicone
- not quite as good as disassembly and soak in Marvel Mystery oil but simpler
- Stuck Buttons another link
- img2track program reads a graphic image file and converts it to pattern data formatted for a Brother KH-900-series knitting machine. The pattern can be loaded into the knitting machine with a USB-to-serial adapter cable.
- MOSTLY KNITTING MACHINES lots of manuals available free of charge
- Custom Knits & Mfg Knitting Machines, Yarns & Instruction, Publishes Machine Knitting Monthly
- CountryKnittingOfMaine.com new publishers of Machine Knitting News & Views
- Knitcraft DesignaKnit & Brother
- heartofpluto.co is working on software to convert a photo to a knitting pattern
- The Machine Knitter's Treasure Chest Patterns & Instructions & Pattern Utilities
- Susan Guagliumi's Website
- www.KnitItNow.com
- machine-knitting.net has articles on Repair
- www.MachineKnittingToDyeFor.com
- www.yarns-and.com Knitting Machines, Yarns, Patterns, Books Accessories, Computer HW & SW
- Hong Kong Knitting Machine Brother & Silver Reed Parts/Accessories/Manuals
- Toms Amazing Knitting Machine Cleaning Yellowed Plastic
- MachineKnittingEtc.com resources & free manuals, free pattern files for DesignaKnit software
- The Knitting Friend knitting machine patterns
- ClearwaterKnits.com Irene Wood's Website
- Foot Size Chart from the Craft Yarn Council (has other sizes also)
- Garment Designer from Cochenille Studios
- Sponge Bars:
- Country Knitting of Maine
- Sponge Bars from dknits.com (also sells DesignaKnit)
- http://spongebar.com/replacesponge/ DYI
- Sponge Bars well recommended and my favorite
- Sock Knitting:
- The Colorado Cranker Candy's Sock Machine blog YouTube Channel
- Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine Co Reproduction Sock Knitting Machines Video
- Legacy Farm - Iowa - Restored Sock Knitting Machines & Sheep & MANY other interests
- KrisKrafter.com Assorted knitting products
- Brother CK35 Knitting Machine:
- Brother CK 35 is . Go! from the Electronic + Textile Institute Berlin
- The CK 35: What I have learned so far. from the Electronic + Textile Institute Berlin
- CK-35 at Goodeys Knitting Room
- Knitting Machine Sales Group
- Knit & Sew has cables
- PC Connectons:
- Brotherlink 7 USB Cable connects FB100 floppy disk to PC
- DesignaKnit USB Cables
- Turn your computer into a Brother FB100
- Brotherlink 7 USB, one step further
- Purchase from the KnitKnack Shop
- FB100 Emulator freeware
- Control Box 2 for KH970 patterning by Jos Timmermans
- DAK cables for Brother machines from KnittingParadise.com
- Un-sticking Stuck Buttons on a Brother knitting machine answerladyknits video
- Spinning Wheels
- Columbine Spinning Wheel no longer has a website
- Majacraft
- Ashford
- Louet
- Schacht
- Spinning Wheel Sleuth
- Revolution Spinning Wheel Troubleshooting & Maintenance
- Golding Fiber Tools Beautiful Hand-Carved Embellishments
- Embroidery & Sewing Machines
- SewManyParts.com
- SewingPartsOnline.com
- SewingSupplyWarehouse.com
- SewingMachine.com/parts
- SewingMachinesPlus.com
- SewingPartsGuru.com
- USB to WiFi wireless USB data stick
- Connect Wirelessly To Janome and Elna Machines
- Fiber, Yarns, Spinning
- Peter Patchis Yarns Mill Ends & Knitting Machines in Central Falls, RI
- yarn.com Webs - Lots of Coned Yarn - Northhampton, MA - has Mill Ends and A Blog
- Georgia Yarn Company online yarn company selling a little over his cost (a weaver's husband)
- GreatNorthernWeaving.com rug warps & wefts - AKA RugWarp.com
- TotalRug.com rug weaving supplies and weaving accessories
- RM Yarns Mill Ends !!
- GistYarn.com yarn & fiber, including stainless steel weaving yarn
- MM Waite Weaves Hand Dyed Warps
- FoxFibres Organic Cottons
- Pacific Wool & Fiber has mill ends
- Cotton Clouds Big Selection
- Harrisville Cotton Potholder Loops (high quality) and free Potholder Design Software
- HomesteadWeaver.com Potholder loops & Weaving strips from Solemate Socks
- Yarn Barn of Kansas spinning wheels, looms, related supplies, books, dyes, yarns and fibers
- The Woolery spinning wheels, looms, related supplies, books, dyes, yarns and fibers, including Brassard cottons
- Paradise Fibers Handspinning, Knitting, & Weaving Supplies
- TreenwaySilks.com coned sild & blends in many sizes
- VillageSpinWeave.com All supplies including UKI Cotton and Bamboo
- JoyOfHandSpinning.com "The Website for HandSpinners" - includes spinning videos
- Herrschners They send out a standard craft catalog.
- Ohio Valley Natural Fibers custom processing of wool, mohair, and exotic fibers
- HabuTextiles.com
- RedFishDyeWorks.com
- FoxGloveFiber.com
- LoneStarLoomRoom.com
- LunaticFringeYarns.com
- Huntington Yarn Mill Made in the USA
- SilkYarn.com Silk Tree
- Halcyon Yarn
- Silk City Yarns
- Camilla Valley Farm Weaver's Supply
- ColourMart.com luxury fibers
- New World Textiles Organic and "Dye-Lishus" Cotton charkha.biz old website Handweaving Yarn (etc) grown, processed, ring spun in the USA
- TheThreadExchange.com specializes in the kinds of thread that are not sold in stores.
- Lotus Yarns - Cashmere from China
- Stephanies Studio & Yarn knitting machine yarn (acrylic + cotton)
- Made In America Yarns
- eBay Yarn Stores:
- FabFibers by fiberluv
- Frank's Textile Warehouse
- Hearts Desire Fibers eBay Store
- Sewing
- Jordan Fabrics Quick Method for Binding - Quilting YouTube Video
- Patchwork
- PaperPieces.com Precut Paper Shapes for Patchwork
- Grandby's Quilts - Quilting Services Machine Quilting on your quilt top
- How To Make A Bubble Quilt Step-by-Step Instructions & Video
- Patterns
- Folkwear Patterns
- McCall Patterns
- Dana Marie Patterns
- Kwik Sew Patterns
- Swoon Patterns
- Paper Theory Patterns
- Sewing Workshop
- Sarah Howard Get Weaving
- Handwoven Huipil (poncho-like tunic) by Bonnie Tarses
- Potholders: 10 Best Potholder Patterns from Radiant Home Studio Very Kerry Berry (pieced)
- Fabrics
- JordanFabrics.com in Oregon - specialize in quilting and pre-cuts
- fabric.com
- OnlineFabricStore.net
- BugFabric.com
- HartsFabric.com has Toweling
- Fat Quarter Shop
- Jo-Ann Fabrics
- WAWAK Sewing
- GorgeousFabrics.com
- Hancocks-Paducah.com
- FabricMartFabrics.com
- FashionFabricsClub.com
- Fabric Place Basement Natick, MA
- Rag Rugs:
- Preparing Fabric Strips for Rag Rugs YouTube continuous length
- Preparing Your Fabric pieced continuous length
- Conventional: cut across grain; Fabric Stronger: cut lengthwise; No fray but stretches: cut on diagonal
- BrotherSE400.com
- Embroidery Patterns:
- EmbroideryDesigns.com
- EmbLibrary.com
- UrbanThreads.com patterns
- MollyMine.com
- Free Designs from Brother
- ibroidery.com
- DigitizingMadeEasy.com John Deer's Embroidery Legacy
- Artapli patterns
- String Theory Fabric Art patterns
- Laurel Burch/a> patterns
- Boston Celtics Embroidery Design & many other designs
- SwakEmbroidery.com designs including applique & the outline for a softball
- JEmbroideryApplique Etsy Embroidery Pattern Page I REALLY LIKE the patterns!
- www.apexembdesigns.com
- PlanetApplique.com
- EmbroideryOnline.com
- BoutiqueFonts.com
- bfc-creations.com Many Large Embroidery Patterns & bfc-stash.com Thread
- EmbroideryBy.net has Nintendo Character Patterns
- HatchedInAfrica.com Embroidery Patterns
- SueBox.com Embroidery Patterns
- Momo Dini Embroidery Art Embroidery Patterns
- EmbirdDogDesigns.eu More than 700 photo-realistic embroidery stock designs of dogs
- Embroideres.com Boston Celtics Logo
- Lots of Face Designs helpful for doll making
- Bows And Clothes patterns with project instructions Etsy Store
- BlastoStitch.com many patterns in multiple sizes
- ElizabethsEmbroideries.com embroidery patterns & machine smocking patterns
- Balboa Embroidery Designs A variety of designs including horse & dog breeds; digitizing instruction
- Secrets Of Embroidery Patterns & Tutorials; A section of Embroidery Tips
- TheItch2Stitch.com Fonts (well-recommended)
- JolsonsDesigns.com Fonts well-recommended for quality & price
- JuliasNeedleDesigns.com pretty alphabets and other designs
- Birth Announcement Templates
- EmbroideryPanda.com has Horror Movie Characters
- WhimsyEmbroidery.com has a guniea pig
- CuteAlphabets.com by
- Ageless-Embroidery.com
- Advanced-Embroidery-Designs.com - has American Gothic in Photo Stitch and Blackwork
- Sweat Pea In-The_Hoop Patchwork
- Oregon Patchworks has cross stitch patterns
- ACreativeMedley.com offers in-the-hoop Christmas stocking patterns
- StitchDelight.net embroidery quilting patterns
- DesignsByJuju.com many designs including embossed fonts (my favorite font source) & DigiStitches Give Me Those Shoes (Wizard of Oz)
- RivermillEmbroidery.com fonts are well recommended
- JolsonDesigns.com fonts are well recommended
- Falcon Embroidery
- embroiderystudioONA
- All Things Applique Embroidery over Chenille Yarn
- 3D Serpent Font over Puffy Foam
- Embroidery on Softballs & Baseballs:
- How to Embroider a Baseball YouTube Video
- Creating Shaped Lettering in Embrilliance Essentials Using the Quick Styles YouTube Video
- EmbroideryOnBalls.com
- Templates for 11 & 12 Inch Softballs from SWAK
- Baden Sports has Autograph Softballs blank panels; fake leather
- Rawlings 12" DreamSeam FastPitch Softball real leather with printing - you need to remove ink with Goof Off
- SweetNSassyDesigns.net has replaced FrenchFrillsEmb.com patterns
- How to Construct a Hooded Towel
- Sweet N Sassy (formerly French Frills) on Facebook
- Girl mouse hooded towel design tutorial part 1 YouTube Video
- Hooded Towel Tutorial By: Tammy
- Brother ScanNCut accepts SVG files & extracts embedded applique from PES embroidery files
- Using the SewWhat-Pro/SWP Custom Border Tool YouTube Video
- How to Embroider a Custom In-The-Hoop Pocket on a Shirt or Any Garment John Deer YouTube Video
- ThreadArt.com machine embroidery supplies; offers ThreadArt Embroidery Thread Color Conversion Charts
- AllStitch.com Machine Embroidery Supplies
- WorldWeidner.com has many supplies
- KensSewingCenter.com has many supplies
- RNKdistributing.com Embroidery, Sewing & Quilting products, including stabilizers
- Gunold KK-200 Spray Adhesive (temporary) and other products
- ODIF - Odif 505 Spray & Fix Temporary Fabric Adhesive includes instructions
- 90 weight black bobbin thread
- Madeira Magnetic Bobbins
- United Thread
- Metro Embroidery Thread
- HeirloomsBySharon.com Mylar Film for Embroidery (Applique)
- EmbStore.com
- Sulky Solvy Stabilizer
- Embrilliance
- Embrilliance Documentation
- Embrilliance by BriTonLeap YouTube Channel
- How-to create an embroidery design from an SVG using StitchArtist YouTube
- How to Digitize an Embossed Monogram in Embrilliance StitchArtist
- How-to Create an Embossed Design in StitchArtist YouTube
- How-to Digitize a Handwriting Sample using Embrilliance StitchArtist YouTube
- How to break an object into smaller sections for simplified digitizing using StitchArtist
- Digitizing Basics with Embrilliance StitchArtist
- Drawing with points in Embrilliance StitchArtist
- Creating a Multiple Hoop layout in Embrilliance Enthusiast by Lisa Shaw
- Splitting for the Fast Frames Jumbo Hoop by Lisa Shaw
- Enveloped Lettering Video for T-Rex or Triceratops
- Setting jump stitches correctly using Embrilliance Enthusiast
- Fixing Wierd Stitches by Lisa Shaw
- How-to Create Sketch & Scribble Style Embroidery Designs with Embrilliance StitchArtist LOVE Sketches by Lisa Shaw
- Adventures in StitchArtist: Scribble Sketch Outlines by Jeannie Horton
- The Takeup - Ep. 38: Fixing Machine Embroidery Disasters; Errors, Cover-ups, Visible Mending & More by Erich Campbell
- Patch Making from Sew Bubbles (Lisa Shaw)
- Erich Campbell has videos on a variety of digitizing topics
- Embrilliance Embroidery Supply
- Embroidery Fonts Plus embroidery software free lettering software with 3 fonts Additional Fonts can be purchased
- Wilcom TrueSizer free software to convert & scale designs
- Embird.net has plug-ins for digitizing and for converting photos to embroidery patterns
- Sew Art Software for digitizing software & editing - updates free
- Sew What Pro & Embrilliance StitchArtist use fonts that are installed on your PC:
- Urban Fonts free
- FontSquirrel.com free
- DaFont.com free - also offers barcode fonts
- Fonts101.com
- DailyArtHub.com clip art files
- ClipartLibrary.com
- DesignBundles.net
- Floriani upgrades free
- Art and Stitch upgrades free
- Convert image to the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format optimal for digitizing
- TurtleStitch - Coded Embroidery Turtlestitch uses Snap!'s "pen module" which it interprets as a needle and transforms its output into widely used embroidery file formats. See also wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/TurtleStitch TurtleStitch is based on Snap!, but it is more similar to BeetleBlocks. It is used to generate patterns for embroidery machines. It is easy to use, requiring no prior knowledge in programming, yet powerful in creating nowels patterns for embroidery. It is useful for designers to experiment with generative aesthetics and precision embroidery as well as a tool for innovative workshops combining an introduction to programming with a haptic output. My Computer Geek friend Rick shocked my socks off with pictures of a pattern he had created with Turtle Stitch and embroidered on a Brother 770 as part of a Stem project.
- PhotoEmbroidery.com Upload a photo and it is auto-digitized; if you like the results then purchase for $1 per 1000 stitches of design
- digitsmith.com Machine Embroidery Discussions & Ads
- Thread Tension Gages by Towa
- TexMacDirect All sorts of embroidery products including Happy Machines
- The Humble Bobbin explanation & perspective
- Mastering Machine Bobbin Tension from Superior Threads
- Designs in Machine Embroidery
- CmeMag.com Creative Machine Embroidery Magazine
- Mighty Hoop Magnetic Hooping System
- Durkee Commercial Embroidery Hoops
- FastFrames.com
- EmbroiderThis.com
- JiffyShirts.com Big Accessories 6-Panel Cap
- NyFifth.com has Otto Cap Cap 18-202
- TowelHub.com
- ShirtSpace.com
- SewForLess.com has Clothing Blanks including Baseball Caps
- Wild About Me Blanks
- BlankApparel.com
- DirectWholesaleApparel.com
- SanMar
- McArthur Towels for bulk purchase
- GotApparel.com
- BlankShirts.com
- TowelsOutlet.com
- BlanksBoutique.com clothing for infants & children
- ARB Blanks children's blanks & some adult shirts
- ShirtSpace.com
- JiffyShirts.com Blank Shirts, T-shirts, polo shirts, jackets, Tee Shirts, knit shirts, fleece pullovers, denim, ...
- CapBargain.com Wholesale Blank Hats & Custom Otto Caps
- BuckWholeSale.com hats & caps
- KatiSportCap.com Sport Cap & Bag
- DBA Blanks Clothing & Accessories (including embroiderable sandals)
- DiscountEmbroideryBlanks.com
- AllAboutBlanks.com
- Brooks Canvas 4 Panel Room Divider replace or embellish the canvas
- Umbrellas
- Flower Sack Towels
- Wordans wholesale clothing
- Instruction Book 87 pages from Janome
- JanomeServiceVideos.com
- N B Mahenderkar Sewingsolutions MB 4 Instruction Movie 37 minutes YouTube
- How to embroider - Janome MB4 10 YouTube Videos
- Service Manual costs $15
- Software Updates for MB-4 RCS from Janome Japan
- Getting That Embroidery Design To Your Janome
- Transferring a design from your PC to a USB Stick or ATA Card (compact flash card) without the use of Janome software from the Janome site
- Janome Global Site
- Digitizing:
- BAI Vision 1501 Embroidery Machine:
- ebaima.com BAI embroidery machines, accessories & instructional videos
- How to Open a BAI Crate
- BAI embroidery machine unboxing video
- How to assemble the machine
- Computer Operate teaching video
- How to thread the BAI embroidery machine
- How to embroider flat
- How to embroider T-shirts with BAI embroidery machine
- How to embroider a cap
- Where To Oil & Grease | Redline Embroidery Machine
- About Tension | Redline Embroidery Machine
- How to Change Embroidery Needles BAI
- Embroidery Machine Needle Replacement GunoldUSA
- The machine is like a lady, it also needs careful maintenance and care from BAI
- How to add Might Hoops to BAI embroidery machine from SimplyThreads
- Digitize and Create Embroidery Files - easy & free YouTube Video demonstrates free trial of Sew Art
- Getting Started With SewArt Embroidery Design Software- Image To Embroidery File by Burley Sew
- Posterize
- Magnification Tools
- Reposition & Crop & Resize (use tools)
- Further Color Reduction: Set Number or Colors or Merge Colors
- Despeckleing (try CTRL-z will undo)
- Pencil, Eraser & Shapes tools useful
- Fine-tune by zooming in really close; fill background so can look for speckleing
- Zoom & fix edges (dropper, pencil & bucket)
- Sew Image Button -> auto sew image -> set transparent color (background)
or can do manually (select sequence - want border first) - Save - can select scale but not necessary if picture was sized beforehand
- Digitizing Images for Embroidery - Easy How To Guide
- Sew Art - 2016 - Bean Stitch Tutorial with Sew Outs
- BAI Vision 1501 Embroidery Machine:
- How to Embroider a Hand Towel with Brother Machine: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
- Janome Needle Threader tool
- Fast Frames:
- Janome MB-4:
- Diana Smith Videos Cleaning, File Transfer, Techniques
- How to clean thread guides
- How to Clean 1 How to take head off and clean and oil Machine.
- How to Clean 2
- Brother PR-600:
- Removing Covers on a Brother PR600
- Oiling Points on Brother PR-600
- Set Up the Cap Frame Driver for PR Embroidery Machine
- How to assign colors to a design on the Brother 6 needle
- PR600 Modification for Tangle-Free Stitching
- Hooping Hats by John Deer
- 6 Needle Maintenance
- Automatic needle threading - Brother PR embroidery series How-To Use
- Sewing With Nancy (Wisconsin Public Broadcasting)
- Today's Crazy Quilting with your Embroidery Machine, Part 1 Sewing with Nancy Show
- Machine Embroidery in 6 Easy Lessons, Part 1 Embroidery expert Eileen Roche joins Nancy to help you tackle those embroidery projects that have been on your "to do" list forever.
- Black slaves created & used quilts to communicate "getaway plans" of the route of the underground railroad to freedom.
The coded messages demonstrated expertise & ingenuity in the areas of
- cartography (mapping)
- cryptography (encoding secrets)
- geometry
- www.FollowTheDrinkingGourd.org
- Dharma Trading Supplies for fabric printing & dying + clothing blanks & inkjet silk paper
- Custom Fabric Printing
- SpoonFlower.com entirely automated ordering process
- FabricOnDemand.com submit graphics
- Design
- Kim Knight's TrueUp Blog fabric design forum
- Digital Textile Design
- Artlandia Symmetry Mill online software allows users to create seamless pattern repeats
- InkScape is a free, open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illistrator
- TheFabricStudio.com Users can access a library of 700-plus background designs, add images, and automatically create seamless repeating patterns
- Getty Museum Images available for use
- Dye
- Pro Chemical & Dye Fall River, MA
- All About Hand Dying by Paula E. Burch, Ph.D.
- PeacefulPeople.com clothing blanks
- Warp Painting:
- Cotton & Silk How-To ProChem Instructions
- How-To
- Tutorial
- MachineKnittingToDyeFor.com knit, paint, unravel & use as warp and/or weft
- With Rit from SlowYarn.com
- Woven Shibori :
- Heirloom Woven Labels
- WonderLabel.com
- Judi & Co. - Needlepoint Canvases, Supplies, Ribbons, Accessories & Purse Handles
- Raymond's Quiet Press Historical Recreations including Belt Buckles
- Dorset Buttons make buttons from your yarn - The British Button Society
- StrapWorks.com band fittings, including D rings, loops, buckles, etc
- Threading Your Way Through the Labeling Requirements Under the Textile and Wool Acts from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Clothes Captioning: Complying with the Care Labeling Rule
- Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival Always the first full weekend in May
- Connecticut Sheep, Wool & Fiber Festival Saturday, April 24, 2021
- Maine Fiber Frolic June 1 & 2, 2013, 9 - 4 pm
- Lambtown USA Pictures of their Sheep to Shawl Contest - Dixon, CA October 2 - 4, 2020
- EarthGuild.com Tools, Materials & Books
- Dover Publications has a Weaving & Dyeing Section
- Lark Crafts is part of Sterling Publishing
- Sixth & Spring Books
- Quarry Books
- CreativityInstitute.com Toys to bring out the creativity in your child
- WeavingWorks.com
- Mary Meigs Atwater Recipe Book Digitized by Google
- Weave Construction and Cloth Analysis at OpenLibrary.org
- Interweave Press
- PlyMagazine.com - new (June 2013) Spinning Magazine
- The University of Leeds once offered Ars Textrina Journals
- Online Books Library
- Thingiverse 3D printer files in the public domain
- Dreaming Robots sells 3D printed spinning tools and the design files are free
- Printables.com free printing files
- CrealityCloud Beginners Guide
- SparkFun all sorts of useful electronics & E-Textiles
- all3dp.com printing info
- tinkercad.com online 3d design software
- pronterface.com free software - provides printer control
- Basic Instructions for the Rigid Heddle Loom
- Picture For a Hat Loader
- Picture for a Sweater Escavator
- Spinning Notes
- Crochet Slippers with Flip Flop Sole
- 12 More Ways to Tie a Scarf
- Lees Surrender classic 4H overshot via Leclerc
- Weavers Guild of Boston
- Boston Area Spinners and Dyers
- Weaver's Guild of Rhode Island
- CoverletMuseum.org Bedford, PA
- RealFibers.com Suzi Ballenger - RI Weaver
- Saunderstown Weaving School Norma Smayda
- Cranberry Country Weavers Bridgewater, MA
- Amy C. Lund Handweaving: amyclundhandweaver.com & aclhandweaver.comTiverton, RI
- Paula Becker Tiverton, RI
- Jan Doyle Carolina, RI
- Linda Rhynard Spinner/Weaver in Bristol, RI
- The Woven Path store in Wickford, RI
- Linus Project gives blankets to children that have or are going through difficult times
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
--- Pablo Picasso- More Pable Picasso Quotations
- "All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."
--- Marc Chagall - "The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt
of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the
process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea,
you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something
else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely
unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's
almost never the case.."
--- Chuck Close
