Mesh Work Making is a hand craft, which enables new ways of working creatively with yarn, using our loom template construction system. Our mesh work making series comprises six volumes. Volume One, "Creating Mesh Work Fabrics & Fashions"; and the, "Instruction Guide", Volume Six, are both available now! These two volumes provide fully illustrated introductions and instructions about how to construct mesh work. (See link).

Our loom base invention provides the means for a craft artist to construct creative fashion styles, or fabric forms into soft household items, like lap rugs or wall art, for example. Projects can be made-up for any time of the year, depending on which yarn type & content you employ, such as cotton or wool types in your favourite colours.

Mesh work yarn art generally has an open weave

infra-structure, varying from square grid form patternings, to free form, lacy type styles of patterning. Mesh work fabric can be made-up quite rapidly, compared to crochet or knitting methods. For example, a free size crop top, starter project can be made-up in just one day.

We use interlocking modules that we call, "loom blocks", to construct our mesh work projects, come in various sizes. The modules are usually inexpensive, light weight, flexible and very easy to use; and are usually readily available in some form. A module can be used individually, as a hand-held loom block on your knee, or the modules can be interlocked together on a table top, to form an assembled loom base structure. These loom base structures can be assembled to form different creative arrangements, in a variety of sizes and shapes, as desired. This means that your finished mesh work project will become whatever size your foundation loom base size might be. Just a, "shape-and-then-make", concept! A larger assembled, loom structure can also be worked on in a vertical position. (But conditions apply here).

Loom block modules can also be customized to form virtually any size or shape, or created from scratch, as desired. This also means that you can design your own yarn art projects to any size or shape that you desire. So many creative options are possible! (See Upcoming eBooks, Volume Two & Volume Three for our innovative loom base customizing techniques; and includes mesh work sizing & shaping options).

Volume Four, will be coming out soon. This eBook shows how to convert a loom base structure to a felting loom system; and by including wool rovings and felting with the mesh work making methods, beautiful felted woven fabric forms, or gorgeous winter fashion styles and fibre art, can also be made-up. We decided call our felted woven fabric forms, "Felt-O-Luxxe", because of the luxurious textural qualities these wonderful winter fabrics can achieve. Because of the felting component, these creative methods will take longer to carry out. Completed fabric forms are well suited to a great variety of creative finishes, varying from open weave looks to more solid fabric infra-structures, or to further decorative embellishments.

Stay tuned for Volume Five, an eBook about innovative yarn colouring methods. This last book in the eBook series, shows how to hand paint mesh work projects, when using cotton, wool or silk yarn within a yarn art construction. These methods can be carried out whilst your yarn art projects are still re-moveably attached to your loom base - a little like silk painting, for those who enjoy decorative surface techniques and applying dye colorants. So for a supreme colouring experience, get your colour wheels out & enjoy the ride!  

The, "Instruction Guide", Volume Six, is a mesh work making companion; & introduces the yarn artist to the loom base equipment & loom base specifications, which will assist with assessing project sizes. This eBook will also show you, step-by-step,  how to carry out mesh work making methods, such as the easy stringing methods & stringing sequences, stabilizing stitching & finishing off methods. This volume also provides information about where to obtain the loom base equipment to actually purchase the loom block modules. You'll also find loom template diagrams included in this volume.

There's so much more to discover, from go to show!