***Originally published September 3, 2015***Today we started off class with a slideshow that showed all the different weaving structures that exist. Madelyn has told us on a number of occasions that the number of weave structures that exist is finite, and that while it feels like there are a million different kinds of patterns on all the different looms when we go into the studio side of the building, that that really is all of them. That is reassuring news. To demonstrate this, she passed out a collection of woven samples. When you look closely, you see that they all have the same...

***Originally published on August 27th, 2015***Well, knitting, I think you have a new rival for my time.  Because weaving is really, really incredibly fun.Today the first sample I worked on was this beauty — just simple black and white pattern, but one that I’ve had my eye on since yesterday. The blocks alternated in a treadle pattern that went 1-2-1-2, then 3-4-3-4, then 5-6-5-6, then 7-8-7-8, which made for a really nice rhythm once I got the hang of it. Those blocks themselves then alternated in their own pattern, which after a few rounds, I committed to memory as well (...