Bring Design to Life Each new year is a time to start fresh but no one starts with an entirely new life, new textile projects. Much of what we do in starting a new season is to examine what we already have, give it a polish, pitch out things that don’t work anymore and make plans for what new things should be done, acquired or learned to make our lives fit us again. I started my webdesign journey because the LMS (Learning Management System) that my university was using dropped “podcasting” as an option for files. Being forced to set up my own website to podcast my lecture recordings to studen ..read more

I start a new season of the podcast with each new session of my Textiles course. Rather than make students go back in time, I duplicate episodes from previous seasons, and put them in the proper order. Season 3 will start on January 20th, but I am going to release the first episode, on Fiber Properties, a bit early to whet your appetite. If you have been listening to Season 2, you can continue to enjoy the same content there, or you can start over with a new year and a new season. i will insert a bit more new content and the spring goes along ..read more

We give color to textiles using dyes and pigments ..read more

We don’t need to use fibers to make nonyarn fabrics, we can just use polymers in solution or look to nature ..read more

The nonyarn fabrics usually have fairly descriptive names ..read more

We can make fabrics without using yarns ..read more

Weft and warp knits don’t have warp or weft yarns, but they do go in different directions. The warp knits include tricot and raschel knits ..read more

The weft knits include jersey, rib and purl knits ..read more

Knits are far newer than wovens and borrow vocabulary from wovens ..read more

Double cloths can use 3, 4 or 5 yarns instead of the usual two. Textured weaves, on the other hand, stick to familiar methods to create a subtle pebbly surface ..read more