Tapestry Weaving For Beginners And Beyond (Kristin Carter)

Skilled textile artist and weaver Kristin Carter shares everything you need to make personalised woven wall art with this guide to tapestry weaving. This book teaches all the techniques you’ll need to create your own woven tapestries with a unique, personalised element, and includes a collection of wonderful woven hangings for you to build your tapestry weaving skills.

The author explains all the skills required to make heirloom woven wall art with a very personal theme and how to recreate images of people, pets and places to create your own ‘paintings with thread’. Learn all the basic techniques for tapestry weaving including a quick and easy way to make your own loom from scratch using an old photo frame, how to choose the right yarn, working with a template, how to start off a weave, and advice about colour theory and weaving. Kristin then explores all the tapestry weaving techniques you will need to make your own stunning wall hangings. All of these techniques are accompanied by step-by-step photography so the instructions are super clear and suitable for absolute beginners. Learn how to do rya loops, weft facing weaving, soumak, pile weaving, diamond twill, overweaving, boubles, and an inverted rya fringe.

There are 17 incredible projects for you to experiment and try out your new skills. Each of these can be adapted in order to create your own personalised wall hangings so you can make special heirloom woven art for friends and family. For each project, Kristin includes everything you need to know to set up the loom and gives guidance for yarn amounts and what other tools and equipment are needed for each project. All of the projects are suitable for an A3 sized loom so you only need one size to try out all of the variations. There are projects for abstract patterns, gradient weaving, blending compatible yarns, pet and people portraits with special techniques for recreating the texture of fur and hair. Projects also explore how to play with transparency in a weaving and creating texture using different yarns, cartooning (how to make a cartoon template from photographs), creating templates from your own sketches, and how to create a marble effect. 

Patterns

The book includes 17 different A3 sized wall hanging designs, featuring animals, people, abstract designs, text and graphics. You can recreate them as is, or adapt them to suit you.

About Kristin Carter

Kristin Carter is an Australian based designer and textile artist. She specialises in creating one-off, heirloom pieces woven wall art, based on specific people, places or pets. Her work is very distinctive and stands out in the market.