I’ve just read your lovely book from cover to cover! Wow!  I really like the way each section builds on the previous one and the huge amount of detail you have included. There is enough there to keep me going for years!  

- Sarah Williams

"I received your book today. What an amazing work, many congratulations!! This is the only book that really explains the design process for each weave, rather than just show the drawdown in a diagram."

- Marie-Anne Birken

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Hardback book with 218 pages

Exploring Woven Fabrics is for beginner and intermediate weavers.  It teaches how to construct and weave multiple-sectioned sample blankets exploring Colour and Weave Techniques on four and eight shafts as well as combining weaves together into Block Weaves.

There are seven multiple-sectioned sample blankets to weave:

• Four-shaft Colour and Weave Effect
• Four-shaft Log Cabin
• Four-shaft Shadow Weave and Repp
• Block Weaves including Double Cloth and Summer and Winter
• Eight-shaft Stitched Double Cloth
• Eight-shaft Bold Colour and Weave/Deflected Double Cloth
• Eight-shaft Shadow Weave and Repp        

Included are detailed design decisions and principles for weaving 40 original fabrics created from exploring these seven sample blankets further.  There are 12 four-shaft designs and 28 eight-shaft designs.

Exploring Woven Fabrics is a sequel to Janet’s other book Designing Woven Fabrics.