My 2018 Little Looms magazine article, in full, without the magazine’s editing: All of nature inspires me. I am a curious person. I spend time observing nature from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Nature is colorful, texturally rich, and complex. Picture a flower with velvety, intense magenta petals and a spiraling yellow seedhead; a sunset with a gorgeous color gradient and structurally interesting clouds; a spiraling seashell or galaxy; iridescent abalone shells and beetle wings; uniquely branching plants and leaf shapes; the turbulence patterns and light reflections and refractions of a ..read more

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This pattern is available in my Etsy store I’m weaving a four shaft twill I designed on my table loom to one easier for me to weave with my physical disabilities due to Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Doesn’t the pattern look like cats? Or canines? It reminds me of pick up weaving motifs from traditional cultures around the world, such as Andean Pebble Weave feline motifs. I played around with the threading in my weaving software program to create this design. I’m bundling four strands of 5/2 tencel together for the weft. The pattern is a 2/2 balanced twill. Because the weft is four times the thickne ..read more

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My WordPress blog is now an archive of past projects. Please see my newest work, including the vest below at @LisaRaynerHandwovens on Instagram ..read more

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I have moved my main weaving blog to Instagram see @lisaraynerhandwovens. Here is my latest freeform overshot pattern ..read more