Tapestry Weaving for Beginners and Beyond

Tapestry Weaving for Beginners and Beyond by Kristin Carter is your ultimate guide to creating personalised woven wall art. This book offers a collection of wonderful woven hangings designed to help you build and enhance your tapestry weaving skills.

Kristin Carter, an Australian author, shares all the essential techniques needed to craft your own woven tapestries, incorporating a unique, personal touch. You'll learn how to make heirloom woven wall art with themes that reflect personal stories and how to recreate images of loved ones, pets, and places, turning these into 'paintings with thread'.

The book introduces all the basic techniques of tapestry weaving. It includes a quick and easy method to make your own loom using an old photo frame, guidance on choosing the right yarn, working with templates, and starting a weave. Kristin delves into various tapestry weaving techniques necessary for creating stunning wall hangings, each accompanied by step-by-step photography to ensure clarity for absolute beginners.

You will learn techniques such as rya loops, weft-facing weaving, soumak, pile weaving, diamond twill, overweaving, boubles, and an inverted rya fringe. The book includes 17 incredible projects, encouraging experimentation and new skills development. These projects can be adapted to create personalised wall hangings, making special heirloom art for friends and family.

The book offers guidance on setting up the loom, estimating yarn amounts, and detailing the necessary tools and equipment for each project. All projects cater to an A3 sized loom, so you only need one size to explore all variations.

Projects include abstract patterns, gradient weaving, blending compatible yarns, and creating pet and people portraits using special techniques to replicate the texture of fur and hair. You'll also explore playing with transparency, creating texture with different yarns, and other techniques like cartooning, making cartoon templates from photographs, and using your own sketches to create templates.

The book also provides guidance on creating marble effects, colour theory, and weaving tips. Kristin Carter is a renowned designer and textile artist based in Australia. Specialising in unique, heirloom woven wall art inspired by specific people, places, or pets, her distinctive work stands out in the market.