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Not all cotton yarn is created equal. We break down how cotton is spun, why it matters for weavers, and how we decide what makes it onto our shelves.

Help Us Design Our Yarn When The Weaving Circle opened this past April, the plan for the shop was simple: buy weaving yarn wholesale, sell it retail, stock our shelves with the good stuff our students and customers were asking for. It turned out to be a bigger hurdle than we anticipated. Many manufacturers offer...

If you know us, you may know by now that a beautiful mix of serendipity and sheer stubbornness brought this space to life. But the location itself? It's been so good to us that we struggle to put it into words. So naturally, we're going to try anyway.

Weaving on a floor loom is genuinely complex — and we mean that in the most exciting way possible. Think about what's actually involved: a weaver starts with an idea captured on a weaving draft that can look like hieroglyphics to the uninitiated. From there, colors get chosen, and then hundreds — sometimes thousands...

It all started at a craft fair in Mt. Airy, where I (Melissa) bumped into Stephanie Gleit — a fellow weaver with a table full of gorgeous handwoven towels. We got to talking, and both of us were interested in starting a weaving business and had a very similar vision of what it could...