Mihoko Wakabayashi teaches weaving by breaking most of the traditional rules of the craft. Instead of designs based on complex, mathematical patterns, the looks that emerge in the colorful and ...

Saori weaving requires a special wooden loom, smaller than the typical wooden loom found in Thailand. The loom allows each weaver to create patterns while weaving yarn across hundreds of warp threads ...

A central Victorian woman is one of only three accredited teachers of a Japanese form of freestyle weaving that is beginning to grow in popularity. There are no rules and restrictions in Saori weaving ...