Paper weaving patterns design

Learn how to weave with paper with our tutorial. There's 3 paper weaving card projects to choose from showing you a variety of techniques.

Whether you call it a triaxal weave, mad weave or tumbling blocks, this pattern has a certain beauty to it, especially to those of us fond of geometric designs. I'm just glad I didn't give up when initially I couldn't figure out how to do it to save my life. This post contains affiliate links.&

I've got paper weaving on the brain. Everywhere I go I see new designs I want to try out, but I'm still working through an incredible source of inspiration, the Woven and Constructed exhibit that happened in conjunction with the recent Lotus World Music Festival. You can read more about my first design here. My second design, also inspired by an African textile, was much less difficult to plan and execute but, in a way, I found the simplicity and balance to be much more pleasing. Here is the…

Use paper weaving to learn about color combinations, color-and-weave designs, and even weave structures without worrying about warp tension, yarn choices, or setts.

I recently completed a 30 day online class run by Helen Hiebert called Weaving Through Winter. The class had a very open structure, Helen did a 30 minute video introduction each week on a theme and workshop participants could take the concept and run with it. We posted pictures of what we made and offered comments and suggestions to each other. It was a wonderful daily practice and meditation. If you want to see all 30 of my pieces check out my Instagram posts at @gina_pisello. I will show…

I am SO excited to share this resource that I've been working on with you guys! After seeing some absolutely gorgeous paper weavings on Instagram, I was inspired to create one of my own! So I googled basket weaving designs, then used that to guide my paper weaving. That's when it struck me! What if there were designs or templates created specifically for paper weaving that made it easier for younger students to do too?! Note: I recommend this for students who have already done paper weaving…

An exceptional album of paperwork: cut, stitched, woven, folded, pierced, collaged, and embossed paper. Bought from an ebay dealer, the album has handmade board covers stamped Melita Strube 1884. If not an actual teacher's workbook, it is certainly influenced by the educational theories of Friedrich Froebel or Frobel, 1782 - 1852.