Pocket Book of Weaving, 9781800920750
Hardcover
Weaving simplified: learn the craft, create beautiful projects, quickly!

Pocket Book of Weaving

mindful crafting for beginners

$19.99

  • Hardcover

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    14 June 2024

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Summary

Weaving Wonders: A Beginner’s Pocket Guide

Get started and learn the basics with this miniature, no-nonsense guide to weaving!

From best-selling author and crafting queen Claire Gelder, this gorgeous mini guide is packed full of weaving know-how, practical illustrations and comes with four simple-but-stunning projects.

Perfect for complete beginners, Claire clearly explains everything you need to know about weaving: choosing and using different looms; how to make and…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781800920750
ISBN-10:180092075X
Series:Craft Pocket Books
Author:Claire Gelder
Publisher:Search Press Ltd
Imprint:Search Press Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:14 June 2024
Weight:294g
Dimensions:180mm x 127mm
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Critics Review

‘Mindful crafting’ describes this book perfectly. Author Claire Gelder speaks to beginners who may never have tried weaving before. Claire does not assume the reader knows about the required basic materials, or how to make a cardboard weaving frame, or how to fill a round embroidery frame, and more importantly how to start and finish any piece of work however small.

This little book explains all these techniques with a good balance of illustrations and text. Her descriptions of new knots or decorations are presented with great care and are followed up and developed.

The book has two clear sections, one on square frames and one on circular frames. They are progressive, i.e. starting at beginner’s level and ending with compliments to the reader on their achievement as a weaving artist. Claire finds this craft relaxing, it is simple, and she enjoys playing with colour and design.

Any reader who would like to do some tapestry weaving, make coasters, or decorate a bag, will find this book very useful. The author invites us to join her in her own exploration of a craft that was unfamiliar to her because she had never been exposed to a weaving loom. And now she is hooked!

– Rosemary Mitchell Schuitevoerder, Tynedale Guild * The Journal *

This book may be mini in size, but in content it is sturdy. Learn simply how to create your own weaving work. Learn what weaving can be, for you personally. As a young art student, I looked at looms as an old persons hobby. Something done in the 1800s, while drowned in ones’ shawl. Then as my own mind was led into weaving, I discovered that you can mash it up with whatever art style you come from. For example, I remember working with weaving plastics and wools together, along with scraps of fabric and ribbon. So materialistically speaking, we don’t have to go with the norm. As for the colour palette and pattern, I have even worked with photographs of my own vegetable garden.

Learn all the basics, the increasing, decreasing, working on a variety of size and shape frames…..

* Ailish Henderson *

‘Mindful crafting’ describes this book perfectly. Author Claire Gelder speaks to beginners who may never have tried weaving before. Claire does not assume the reader knows about the required basic materials, or how to make a cardboard weaving frame, or how to fill a round embroidery frame and more importantly how to start and finish any piece of work however small.

This little book explains all these techniques with a good balance of illustration and text. Her descriptions of new knots or decorations are presented with great care and are followed up and developed. 

The book has two clear sections, one on square frames and one on circular frames. They are progressive, i.e. starting at beginner’s level and ending with compliments to the reader on their achievement as a weaving artist. Claire finds this craft relaxing, it is simple, and she enjoys playing with colour and design. 

Any reader who would like to do some tapestry weaving, make coasters, or decorate a bag, will find this book very useful. The author invites us to join her in her own exploration of a craft that was unfamiliar to her because she had never been exposed to a weaving loom. And now she is hooked!

A final section on constructing the human figure completes the book. There is a useful list of suppliers and an index.

– Rosemary Mitchell Schuitevoerder * The Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers *

About The Author

Claire Gelder

Claire Gelder loves all things hand-made, hand-woven and hand-crafted. She has been crafting for relaxation and fun for over twenty years. In 2015, Claire left her career as an NHS Director to launch her new business, Wool Couture, which specializes in knitting, crocheting, weaving and macrame. She quickly got her DIY craft kits on the shelves of retail giant John Lewis and, in 2017, secured two Dragons’ Den investors to help her pass on her passion of crafting to the next generation. Adding a modern twist to age-old pastimes knitting and crochet, Claire uses giant, chunky yarn and oversized knitting needles made in her own factory. As well as a successful entrepreneur, Claire is also a firm believer in the therapeutic side of craft, particularly its benefits to mental health and well-being. Claire lives in Wakefield, UK and is proud to be continuing Yorkshire’s textile tradition.

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