Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: Planning and Weaving with Confidence

Once ideas and images come to mind, the next step in weaving your tapestry--interpreting these into effective compositions--may be challenging. Learn here, in ways that relate specifically to tapestry art, the design basics you need to make your best work.

• A master weaver offers more than 60 step-by-step "explorations" that lead you from understanding design concepts in your head to using them on your loom.
• Be inspired to explore "weavable" ways to manage line, shape, color, texture, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and more for results that bring your tapestries to a new level.
• In Part 1, dive into the fundamentals of design.
• Parts 2 and 3 hold explorations--exercises with a tapestry twist.
• Part 4 teaches ways to turn designs into cartoons.

A resource treasure trove offers ideas for finishing tapestries (essential to the design's completeness), helpful templates, glossaries, and other core information to carry forward on your creative path.