Bio: Marilyn met a girl years ago who was a weaver , and thought that would be something she would like to do. She retired and met a weaver in a knitting shop who had a loom for sale—a four-harness Kessenich—so she bought it. Two books came with the loom: The Rag Rug Handbook, written by Janet Meany and Paula Pfaff, and A Handweaver’s Pattern Book, by Marguerite P. Davidson, printed in 1947. So she began! She also met Winnie Johnson, a weaver who helped her set up the loom and get started. By winter that year she joined the Weavers Guild of Minnesota and took a class. Marilyn is a self-taught weaver in many ways and always trying something new.

Description: I learned this technique in a class at the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. It is called rya.

About the Scandinavian Weavers Group: I love to see all the work that is shared each month and learn so much from that!

Marilyn_moore@comcast.net