It's time! It's finally time! This year's book is Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: From the Beginning, which is a beginner's guide to tablet weaving. You can find it by clicking here, or by clicking on the picture below, in the usual hardcover, softcover and pdf editions. From the Beginning has 8 new drafts to weave, each included to help you learn essential skills, and covers everything from selecting yarn, to measuring out a warp, to different tensioning methods, to weaving, to wet-finishing, to different finishing and sewing techniques for bands.
You could say that I started writing this one back in 2012 when I first started submitting articles on tablet weaving tips and tricks to my local SCA newsletter. I was collecting up my ideas from around 2015 onwards for what I intended to be my first book. During the process of trying to find a publisher for it, I decided to test things out by publishing a suite of designs I'd come up with when I'd injured an elbow and couldn't weave. That became Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Warp-Twined Angles which debuted in 2018. When I finally came back to the beginner's guide project in January 2025, I threw out quite a lot of what I'd previously written (why past-me needed to try to classify every possible fibre yarn could be made from, I will never know) and massively expanded many of the sections. The way I think about and understand tablet weaving has evolved over the years and I like to think that this has turned out to be a much better book due to all the delays.
As I now have a significant body of work to draw from, I was able to use my designs for all but one of the examples I included (many thanks to Mervi Pasanen of Applesies and Foxnoses fame who allowed me to use a section of a band from Tablet-Woven Treasures as an example of Finnish double turns). You may notice that Lattice, my most recently published draft, turns up as an example too. I'm also lucky enough to be part of several thriving tablet weaving communities online. When the book had passed the initial round of copy-editing (many thanks to G, my wonderful copy-editor!), members of the Ravelry tablet weaving group very kindly volunteered to test-read it for me, which the text greatly benefitted from.
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