Handwoven clothing

Based in Ashburton, New Zealand, Ashford Handicrafts are the world’s leading manufacturers of Spinning Wheels, Weaving Looms and other textile equipment and supplies.

Welcome Dawn to Saori Santa Cruz designing and sewing clothing class! Lets look at how this progression class went from hand woven cloth to jacket Here is Dawn's happy hand woven fabric she wove Saori style and brought to class in her luggage from Canada . I had the studio all ready for cutting and sewing and trying on…. Dozens of muslins to try and finished garments as well for ideas….. Dawn confess that in her soaking stage of her finished cloth she some how felted part of it . …. you can…

Tablet woven belt. Warp: wool (100%) Weft: linen Width 4 cm. Lenght 3,1 m (3,25m with tassels). Handwoven by me. Custom made also! Feel free contacting me with personal orders or questions. smou.siilou [at] gmail.com www.instagram.com/smou_crafts

Still warm from the iron my new Saori " Artist vest"! cotton and silk. Pockets for sketch books, keys, phone, and the mossy inspiring stones you discover. Cotton warp, silk weft up in my Etsy shop click here *************************************************** Jeanne came by to try out a picccolo loom... She tryed on my "artist vest" and decided to buy a 15 pound portable piccolo loom … So about 30 mins latter from the box Jeanne was weaving. ( she has a full size saori loom at home she loves…

Wear Your Weaving! I'm just starting to make this top, cotton warp, handspun cotton and banana fibre weft. Woven on my 20in Ashford… | Instagram

Ann came from Kansas and scheduled a class at the studio. She had done some production weaving in the 90's but got bored .She had heard about Saori weaving and wanted to try it and had a really inspiring morning , she kept saying " I have never had so much fun weaving" and "This is artistic weaving, very painterly. " peaceful fun weaving when you return to Kansas Ann Lots of group activity the past week...... My knitting group met and I asked some of them if they wanted to try on some my…

Tablet woven belt. Warp: wool (100%) Weft: linen Width 4,5 cm. Lenght 3,45 m (3,6m with tassels). Pattern: The (Pooping) Goats Handwoven by me. Custom made also! Feel free contacting me with personal orders or questions. smou.siilou [at] gmail.com www.instagram.com/smou_crafts

Every loom has its limits, but that needn’t stop you from making attractive handwoven garments.

I’ve been thinking about my wardrobe recently; the clothes I own, the gaps I’d like to fill. Over the last couple of years, most of my textile work has been concentrated on knitting. I'm a knitwear designer, of course I love knitting, and I love knitwear, but there aren’t many situations where a head-to-toe hand-knitted outfit would be a look I’d go for. So I've been expanding my textile skills and finding new ways to use British wool to make clothing. Years ago I used to sew a lot. I worked…