Skill Guide: Selvedge Management Made Easy

At one point or another, every weaver at every level struggles with clean, straight selvedges. So many factors in weaving affect your selvedges, including your fiber choice, the weaving structures and techniques used, the tension on the loom, and the number of shuttles used. Fortunately, weavers have developed tools, tips, and tricks to make getting clean selvedges easier. I say all that to introduce you to this new skill guide on selvedge management.

Whether selvedges are a constant battle or you’re looking for ways to make managing selvedges easier, this skill guide has something for you. You’ll find two methods for keeping selvedges clean on a rigid-heddle loom: advice for dealing with “smiling selvedges” and correcting mistakes, and several project suggestions to help you develop your skills. I can’t promise that your selvedges will be perfect after reading this guide, but hopefully, it will make getting clean selvedges easier.

Contents include:

• Selvedge experiments
• Fix and prevent selvedge mistakes
• Fixing smiling selvedges
• Projects to try
• Next steps: level up

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