Profile Drafting for Handweavers: Designs, Projects, and Expert Tips for Turning Your Ideas into Weave Structures
“Profile Drafting for Handweavers: Designs, Projects, and Expert Tips for Turning Your Ideas into Weave Structures” by Deb Essen is a comprehensive guide published by Schiffer Craft on November 28, 2025. This 192-page book is designed for handweavers seeking to understand and utilize profile drafts, which serve as a drafting shorthand to create fabric designs and translate them into various weave structures.
Readers will find detailed explanations on how to create and use profile drafts, along with practical applications that include 14 distinct weave structures. The book breaks down the process into accessible information, allowing handweavers to practice with projects tailored to each structure. Additionally, it covers essential components such as tie-ups for treadles, ensuring a thorough understanding of the profile drafting process and its applications in textile crafts.
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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.
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