This comprehensive guide teaches handweavers how to understand, create, and use profile drafts and put the knowledge into practical use. Profile drafts are drafting ?shorthand? for weavers, allowing them to create one fabric design and translate it into many weave structures. but many handweavers do not know how to use the drafts. This is the first book dedicated entirely to this key weaving tool. Expert weaver Deb Essen unlocks the ?mystery? of profile drafting and breaks down the process into easy-to-understand information, illustrating how profile drafting works and how one profile draft can be made into multiple weave structures. You'll learn to create and use profile drafts and translate them into 14 weave structures. You'll also find projects for each structure which allow you to practice the drafts and structures as well as key components (such as the tie-ups for the treadles) so that you can gain a clear understanding of how the process works. AUTHOR: Deb Essen is a well-known weaving expert and teacher. She owns dje handwovens, and has contributed to Handwoven and other magazines. She is the author of Easy Weaving with Supplemental Warps. She lives in Victor, Montana. www.djehandwovens.com SELLING POINTS: . Unique and Comprehensive: This is the first book entirely dedicated to profile drafting, how it works, and how one profile draft can be translated into multiple weave structures. . Learning Tool: The included projects will give the reader experience with creating fabric designs with profile drafts, translating them into weave structures, and understanding how the process works. . From a Recognized Weaving Expert: Deb Essen has written many articles and books on handweaving, has achieved the Certificate of Excellence in Handweaving Level 1 through the Handweaver's Guild of America, and has been inducted into the Montana Circle of American Masters in Folk and Traditional Art. 96 colour, 25 b/w images
