Custom woven and dyed cotton upholstery fabric for a 1961 DKW Junior car. As in most textiles that come off the loom, the fabric is checked for flaws. Because this pattern is quite busy, I missed a few areas with skipped threads when I was weaving. W
Meadow Throw blankets in beautiful undyed Cotswold wool. Cotswold wool raised on @tamarack_farms in Northumberland County. This beautiful wool was spun by #wellingtonfibres in Elora and woven in Toronto. For more information about these beautiful thr
Two border panels for this custom king sized blanket just off the loom and getting seamed together. This goose eye blanket in Coopworth wool from eastern Ontario was custom dyed by @ironcauldron.ca in Sumac grey, Cochineal pink with indigo accents in
Such fun weaving this pretty cochineal pink and sumac grey goose eye blanket. This is the centre panel out of three. The gorgeous Coopworth wool from Amherst Island, Ontario has beautiful lustre and character and is perfect for this type of blanket.
Diamond and Check Placemats I had the pleasure of creating this pattern for @rajivsurendra a few years ago. I was inspired by the red brick and black wrought iron architectural details found on Rajiv’s NY apartment building. I have always been
A run of Meadow pattern throws for @tamarack_farms on the loom. These throws are inspired by the space devoted to wild uncultivated spaces on their Northumberland County farm. The blankets are made from the beautiful wool from the Cotswold sheep on t
Very excited to be working on reproduction upholstery fabric for a very unique antique car. These are a set of samples to test fibre, colour, density and weave structure for a Detroit Electric Car. Anderson Carriage Company began building electric c
Our last day of Tartan Shawl weaving at @eweknitto until the fall when we’ll offer another round of classes. Students had a choice of weaving the following Canadian 🇨🇦 Tartans: Maple Leaf (Canadian), North West Territories, Ontario, Qu&egrav
Basketweave on Checkerboard Cotton Tea Towels This towel makes use of texture in the same colour blocks and graphic pattern in the intersecting black and off-white blocks. It’s fun to play with elements found in 19th century patterns to create
Zig-Zag throw in incredibly soft undyed Norbouillet wool from Peterborough County, Ontario. I love the challenge of creating patterns with bold diagonals. Weaving by its very nature works with the horizontal and vertical - introducing diagonals is a
An absolutely lovely group of weaving students at @eweknit today! Despite losing an hour of sleep because of the daylight savings switchover, everyone was eager and enthusiastic. In a one day workshop, students learned the weaving fundamentals of tre
Custom herringbone and windowpane tweed in undyed white and brown with a dyed pink accent by @ironcauldron.ca in Norbouillet wool. The Norbouillet wool is a breed type developed by Allison Brown on her Peterborough County farm. The wool was custom sp
A fabulous day of weaving at @eweknitto . Five eager students wove their own 85” long Tartan shawl. The Tartan patterns were: the Province of Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, North West Territories and Canada. Each student added their pers
The woven patterns in vintage and antique car upholstery are just so impressive. The attention to design in these fabrics is a fascinating part of 20th century textile history. This current fabric comes from a 1960s DKW Junior car from Germany. Using
The conclusion to a very joyful project. Purely Ontario tweed fabric made into a utilitarian jacket by @philipsparks and a flatcap made by @deckelcaps. Thank you @marknowacz for supporting sustainable textiles, from the farm to garment. Your enthusia
Goldenrod yellow and Sumac grey foraged colours turning on the sunshine on this cold and windy January day. The fine and lustrous Coopworth wool in this blanket was locally sourced, spun, dyed and woven right here in our @ontariofibreshed These fabu
Sometimes there is poetry in weaving. As I sit at the loom on this sunny morning, the sun shines through the window panes onto my herringbone tweed with pink windowpanes. A couplet of sunshine and tweed. This large scale herringbone tweed is made wi
Custom-made Goose-eye blanket in beautiful Coopworth wool from eastern Ontario. In 19th century Ontario, this pattern was woven using a strong lustrous wool as in this custom spun yarn from #wellingtonfibres in Elora. The weave structure and yarn are
2024 felt like a year of sampling and tweaking complicated projects that still need the final finish in 2025. It was also a year of finishing up projects from 2023 that came to their conclusion. However, as I look back, it does look like I finished a
What a treat to see @rajivsurendra wearing his flannel shirt in his recent video on Custom Hand-weaving. The fabric for Rajiv's shirt comes out of some research that I did to develop flannel fabric in 2019 for another customer who you can see three p