Best of Handwoven: Top Ten Shawls on Four and Eight Shafts eBook

When the weather gets colder the perfect accessory to beat the chill is a shawl. Create a variety of fashionable handwoven shawls with this Best of Handwoven eBook! Weaving a shawl is a very satisfying experience. A shawl can be almost any width—almost any loom is therefore wide enough. Because shawls are usually wider than scarves, they provide the joy of watching a lot of fabric dance before your eyes as it grows, pick by pick. Almost any weave structure and any yarn can be used for a shawl, so you can experiment with yarn substitutions and color wraps for variations exploration beyond the instructions given here. Shawls are rectangles, so no sewing is required. Shawls love fringe, thereby inviting you to twist, knot, or braid. Perhaps best of all is that from the moment you remove a shawl from the loom, you have a serious piece of cloth to wrap around you for warmth and beauty. Whether you enjoy weaving on four shafts, eight shafts, or both, you will find the shawl (or shawls) for y