Unlocking Profile Drafts: Learn to Translate Geometic Patterns

Confidently weave from profile drafts and explore a new world of design possibilities. The over-and-under grid of woven cloth lends itself to spectacular geometric patterns, and profile drafts are the blueprints for those geometric designs. Profile drafts offer endless opportunity to be creative at the loom, and once you know how to translate a profile draft into woven cloth, you can create a wardrobe or decorate your whole house with airy lace, drapey twill, sturdy rep weave, and more, all from the same designs. In this video, master weaver and teacher Deb Essen introduces the basics of profile drafts and shows how to translate bold geometric patterns into beautiful cloth. AUTHOR: At 9 years old, Deb Essen watched a weaver perform "magic" on a loom for the first time. Enticed by that memory, she finally took her first weaving class in 1993, and she's been exploring weaving ever since. In 2004, Deb achieved the Certificate of Excellence in Handweaving, Level 1 from the Handweavers Guild of America. In 2011, she was inducted into the Montana Circle of American Masters in Folk and Traditional Art. In addition to running her business dje handwovens, creating and designing kits for handweavers, Deb teaches at conferences and guilds, nationally and internationally. Her exploration of supplemental warp weaves led her to write 'Easy Weaving with Supplemental Warps: Overshot, Velvet, Shibori, and More', available from Interweave.