Long Thread Media Workshops

Designing Shadow Weave: Create Your Own Dazzling Patterns in Simple Cloth

Explore five key design principles to take your shadow weave skills to the next level.

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Color-and-Weave on the Rigid-Heddle Loom

Learn to weave graphic, complex-looking patterns on your rigid-heddle loom—no pick-up stick required.

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Spinning Wild & Unusual Silk with Judith MacKenzie

Join beloved teacher Judith MacKenzie in a course to help you build confidence and uncover new skills for spinning, carding, and blending silk.

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Introduction to Shadow Weave: Dazzling Patterns in Simple Cloth

Renowned weaver Jannie Taylor shows the basics of shadow weave and how simple cloth can become the fabric of your dreams.

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Weave Turned Krokbragd on an Inkle Loom

Learn to use a simple inkle loom to weave delightful three-shed bands.

(25) 4.8 average rating

Drumcarding Basics & Beyond

Learn to use a drumcarder for fiber preparation, color blending, texture, and more.

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Beginning Weaving with Tom Knisely

This course covers the basics of multi-shaft looms, warping comfortably, planning a project using your chosen yarn, weaving tips, and much more!

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Beginning Spinning on a Wheel

Get ready to start Beginning Spinning on a Wheel with Kate Larson. Basic plying techniques, how to draft your fibers, and much more!

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[Video Only] Spinning to Get Even: How to Spin Consistent Yarn

Improve your spinning from first drafts to finishing with step-by-step spinning instructions from Beth Smith. Learn to make even, uniform yarns with 52 minutes of watch-and-learn instruction.

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Weaving Summer and Winter with Madelyn van der Hoogt

This course covers the basics and variations of the summer and winter weave structure, a reversible design that creates a lot of patterning with just a few shafts. Suitable for 4 shafts and up.

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Felt It! Needlefelt Mini Gnomes

Learn how to create adorable 3D mini gnomes out of sheep's wool with a simple needle tool.

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Card Wool for Color

Get ready to Card Wool for Color with Esther Rodgers. Learn about choosing and placing colors, using a drum carder, and much more!

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Weave a Good Rug with Tom Knisely: From Fiber to Finish

Tom Knisely teaches all the ins and outs of rug weaving. From fibers to finishing, Tom explains everything you need to know to successfully and comfortably weave attractive, sturdy rugs you’ll delight in having underfoot.

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Tablet Weaving Made Easy

Get ready to start tablet weaving with John Mullarkey! This course will cover tips for the best tablet-weaving tools and materials, how to read a tablet-weaving draft, and so much more!

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Getting Started on a Drop Spindle

In this course, discover the joy of spinning yarn with expert instructor Maggie Casey.

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The Loom Owner's Companion with Tom Knisely

Tom Knisely has maintained and woven with hundreds of looms in more than three decades of teaching. In this course, filmed on location, Tom explains how to get the most from your loom.

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The Spinning Teacher with Maggie Casey

Watch expert spinner and teacher Maggie Casey demonstrate the basics of spinning on a drop spindle. Whether you are brand new to spinning, or an experienced spinner looking to teach others, this video will instruct, entertain, and inspire.

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Three Bags Full by Judith MacKenzie

Have you longed to buy a fleece to spin yourself, but felt a bit lost? This workshop with fiber and spinning expert Judith MacKenzie is like a personal tour of the Estes Wool Market in Estes Park, Colorado.

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Color Blending for Spinners with Esther Rodgers

In this course, join Esther Rodgers and learn how to expertly blend fiber to create unique, vibrant colors.

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Expressive Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom

In this course, join Esther Rodgers and learn a variety of techniques and effects to expand your creativity and enjoyment of weaving on a rigid heddle loom.

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From Wool to Waulking: Spinning Wool and Creating Cloth with Norman Kennedy

Following his passion for weaving and spinning, Norman Kennedy has traveled around the world, watching traditional artisans create textiles as they had for generations. Norman has preserved skills that were on the verge of disappearing.

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Spinning for Lace

Tried and True Methods for Spinning Fine Yarns from Merino and More

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Natural Dyeing with Dagmar Klos

In this video, master dyer Dagmar Klos introduces you to the secrets of dyeing your fiber, yarn, and textiles with nature’s perfect palette.

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Popular Wheel Mechanics with Judith MacKenzie

In this far-ranging video workshop, Judith MacKenzie looks at several types of wheels available today, explaining the fundamentals of how they work and dissecting their differences.

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Finishing Up: How to Wash, Block, Dry and Finish Handspun Yarns

Get ready to start Finishing Up with Kate Larson! Techniques, measuring, and more!

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Totally Twill: Beyond the Basics with Robyn Spady

Twill offers virtually endless possibilities to weavers. Go beyond the basics with Robyn Spady, and learn how to create complex and large-scale patterns, even if you only have 4 shafts.

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Doubleweave on a 4-Shaft Loom

Doubleweave is a fascinating and versatile structure. While many weavers know of it as a way to create cloth that is twice as wide as your loom, there is much more to doubleweave than that. Using only four shafts, learn to weave two layers of cloth.

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Totally Twill: The Basics with Robyn Spady

In this video, master weaver Robyn Spady shows you how to mix and match twill threadings, tie-ups, and treadling to create a profusion of patterns.

(11) 4.7 average rating

Weaving with Linen with Tom Knisely

Linen is a strong and durable fiber, ideal as a warp for carpets and other items that get a lot of wear. It's also beautiful, with a lustrous sheen and beautiful drape, and works as both a warp and weft yarn for many kinds of projects.

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Designing Handwoven Projects with Tom Knisely

Whether you are relatively new to weaving or have been weaving for years, this workshop will guide you through everything you need to consider before designing your own projects.

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