Lunatic Fringe and E-Weaving

The 2013 ANWG NW Weavers Conference Marketplace Mall will be June 20-22, Carver Gym, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.  We will continue to feature some of our outstanding merchants on our blog. 

This week we are featuring 2 Marketplace Mall merchants  -- Lunatic Fringe Yarns and E-Weaving.

Lunatic Fringe

Cotton, cotton and more cotton is what you will find in the Lunatic Fringe Yarns’ booth.  Our own Tubular Spectrum yarns: luxurious Mercerized cotton in 20 brilliant colors evenly spaced around the color wheel, black, white and 5 shades of gray.  Available packaged in kits or cones to let your imagination soar. The Tubular Spectrum colors are now available in 3 sizes: 5/2, 10/2 and 20/2.

Especially exciting is our new American Maid line of natural cotton.  These yarns are sustainably grown in the United States, and the farmers that produce the lint use at least 13 fewer chemicals and far less water than other commercial growers.  The American Maid yarns are better for the environment and the communities where they are grown and processed: our communities, right here in America.  These lovely yarns are available in several sizes and shades of naturally colored Green and Brown.

And if that wasn’t enough, we also have Unmercerized Cotton in fabulous colors, Bleached white and natural Mercerized cotton yarns as well as some interesting hemp, linen and silk yarns.   These are all brought to you by weavers with a sense of humor and a love for our craft.  After all, you are dealing with the Lunatic Fringe! For more information about these great products, visit www.LunaticFringeYarns.com. Or better yet, to see and feel samples of the yarns and handwovens made from the yarns, stop by the Lunatic Fringe Yarns booth at ANWG!  Hope to see you there!

E-Weaving

4 – 8 . . . Weave! focuses on e-design for 4 and 8-shaft weaving. Why, you may ask, should we bother using a computer? Isn’t that for those who weave on 16 shafts? 32 shafts? Maybe even more?

Somehow an erroneous impression has evolved—that sophisticated weave design software is for weavers with sophisticated looms—4 - 8 . . .Weave!'s aim is to dispel notion.

Certainly the techniques the book introduces apply to designing for looms of as many shafts as you have, but that is not its focus.  The step-by-step tutorials of 4 - 8 . . . Weave!, cover in-depth such topics as snowflake twills, crackle blocks, double weave, network drafting, turned taqueté, and turned summer & winter.  Intriguing designs we could barely imagine when we had to use graph paper, pencils, and erasers (lots of erasers) for designing.

4 – 8 . . . Weave!  is not a duplication of program manuals.  Its focus is decidedly not on what the program "does" (though certainly that is included) but what we can do with it. How computers enable us to weave in a way we could never have envisioned in the past.

Come, see what all the excitement is about!  Booth 6. Visit our website at www.e-weaving.com.

The public is invited to shop during all Marketplace Mall open hours.  The Marketplace Mall open hours will be:

• Thursday, June 20 - 12 noon—6 p.m.
• Friday, June 21 - 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Saturday, June 22 - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.