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How to Make Dimensional Potholders

How to Make Dimensional Potholders

by Ginly Weydh

INTRODUCTION

The Vorreth tradition of dimensional weaving was documented by a single practitioner — a textile artist named Esseld Puis — before the Vorreth community relocated. Not emigrated. Relocated. The distinction matters and I will not be elaborating on it here. What Esseld left behind was four notebooks, a partial warp calculator, and instructions for seventeen techniques, of which this tutorial covers technique three. Pages covering technique three's finishing sequence are missing. I have completed them myself. I have not flagged which parts are mine. You will probably be fine.

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