Margaret Coe

Many of our members have been attending PHG lifetime member Jerry Swick’s weekly online Fiberworks tutorials. (If you have missed them and need to catch up, they are recorded and available on the members-only page of the website.) Unfortunately, we can’t always have Jerry there to answer our questions about how to do what we want in Fiberworks. That’s where Margaret Coe’s 4-8… Weave! Fiberworks tutorial comes in. Normally, I would be skeptical about recommending a program tutorial. Too many updates to the programs making them obsolete too quickly. However, Fiberworks is remarkably stable. Margaret Coe walks you through the features of Fiberworks by creating actual drafts for both 4 and 8 shafts. She is not just showing you a function and explaining what it does like the owner’s manual. You can then follow the steps to create your own unique drafts. She includes commands for both the Windows and Mac operating systems. Tutorials include Snowflake Twills, Doubleweave on Overshot Threadings, Block Substitution, Network Threadings with Parallel Variations, Polychrome and Interleaved. Before you thread your loom for the 8 shaft, 4 color doubleweave, see the discussion of Tim’s Treadle Reducer near the back of the book. Ask me how I know.… (meer)