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Lisa Rayner Handwovens
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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · Nov 29
My ocean-honoring shawl with freeform overshot motifs, a year in the making. I’m thrilled 🐬🐚🌈 #FiberArt #weaving #weaver
#SmallBusinessSaturday #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #Saori #overshot #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #weaver #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall 🧶 #Artivism
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WEFT Magazine returned my freeform overshot scarf A
Rainbow Peace after photographing it. My article & chart > 2026 TWILL issue. Read Freeform Overshot for Beginners ☮️ #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #RigidHeddleWeaving
#Artivism #Craftivism
#OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns
A brunette graying mixed Balkan person with a buzz cut and glasses wearing a striking colorful handwoven scarf with peace symbols in a rainbow of eight hues on a navy background, navy top and pants.
January 4, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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It’s 2026! Self portrait almost 40 years ago, large format film, camera on timer. Something weird caused overexposure but the result wowed me & my photography instructor. Home sewn boiled wool cape 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieRetail #ActuallyAutistic #queer
Black and white photo overexposed white. A person in a dark cape, wearing a hood, peeks out from behind a large tree trunk, left side of photo, right side of tree. Ghostly apparition effect.
January 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Wet felted African daisies hand sewn on a thrift store jacket. I dyed some of the wool roving in cochineal to create red-purples 🌀 #color #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #felting 🧶 #slowfashion #WetFelting #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieArt #IndieRetail
#Artivism #Craftivism
Ten felt daisies in hues of fuchsia, magenta, crimson, pink, lilac. Red, yellow, light lime centers. Green triangular leaves. Tiny whip stitches around the felt pieces. Gray wool knit fabric background.
December 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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An African daisy (Osteospermum) spotted on a neighborhood walk yesterday. The 🩷 fuchsia-magenta-plum-purple 💜 spectrum captures my some of my favorite colors. The water droplets are from a rainstorm the previous night ☔️ Another storm arrives tonight. Nature is my muse 🌈
#color #nature #weaving #art
A vibrant magenta-fuchsia petaled daisy with a dark plum-purple center surrounded by green leaves. Water droplets heighten the 3D vibrancy and look almost unreal. Lisa Rayner Handwovens. Nature is my muse 🌿
December 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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A diamond twill ruana I wove. It won a county fair best of show textile arts award. Handspun headband dyed in cochineal. Lace fingerless mitts. It’s Winter Solstice🌞 #FiberArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #slowfashion #bskyweavers #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieArt #IndieRetail
Me dressed all in bright crimson red with my arms fully outstretched, big smile. The ruana is a long purple striped fabric that is as wide as my elbows, hand knit fingerless mitts up to my elbows. Thick red knit headband, dark red turtleneck. Red quilt fabric tie dyed hand sewn pants, red suede shoes. Late fall leaves almost gone landscape.
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I’ve been designing freeform twill pick up patterns & preparing wool yarn for warping a handwoven ruana 🐈‍⬛🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #BlackCat #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #IndieRetail #RigidHeddleWeaving #ShopSmall #WeavingPatterns #IndieArt #BlackCat
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Skeins of soft lavender yarn with purple and pink splotches being transformed on a skein winder into yarn cakes on a ball winder. A black cat stands behind watching the process with interest. Wooden umbrella skein winder, carved wooden tray with yarn skeins, wooden ball winder. White table. Large windows with a lot of indirect light and white wooden shutters.
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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An #8Shaft undulating twill shawl I wove with tabby, as with freeform overshot 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #ShopSmall #WeavingPatterns #IndieArt #Artivism#IndieRetail #SupportSmallBiz #Craftivism
An aqua-turquoise shawl with a wavy curvy zigzag pattern and fringe. I’m wearing it, a mixed Balkan brunette with a buzz cut and glasses. Smiling, left hand over the front, dark navy pants. I’m leaning against an adobe style wall with a bench ledge and a dusty blue antique wooden doorway.
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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A handspun, handwoven art yarn vest. Custom sheds so coils face outwards, interior smooth 💜 #ShopHandmade #PampaLoom #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #ShopSmall #WeavingPatterns #IndieArt #IndieRetail #SupportSmallBiz
A purples with turquoise accent handwoven vest, thick blumpy textured handspun art yarn vertical, creating funky fringe at the bottom. Wild yet finished look. Worn by a mixed Balkan person with glasses, thick brown eyebrows, big smile, deep turquoise blue hiking style sun hat. Lavender long sleeved top. A large brown furrowed tree trunk behind. Greenery in a semi-arid climate, a few red roses in bloom. Speckled sunlight.
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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My ocean-honoring shawl with freeform overshot motifs, a year in the making. I’m thrilled 🐬🐚🌈 #FiberArt #weaving #weaver
#SmallBusinessSaturday #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #Saori #overshot #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #weaver #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall 🧶 #Artivism
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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My ocean-honoring shawl with freeform overshot motifs, a year in the making 🌈 #FiberArt #weaving
#SmallBusinessSaturday #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #Saori #overshot #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieArt #SupportSmallBiz #Artivism
Me, a mixed Balkan person with a buzz cut and glasses wearing a colorful rainbow and blue green shawl standing on a wooden staircase, the Pacific Ocean behind me, early morning light from the east. Low waves near the base of the staircase. A large rainbow, turquoise and navy blue shawl. The fabric is five scarf width vertical sections sewn together selvedge to selvedge. The outer and middle panels combine rainbow spectrum sections of different lengths with varying textured yarns with turquoise on navy geometric, spiral and sea life motifs: peace symbol, seahorse, diamond twills, scallop shell, double spiral, etc. The two panels in between the other three are mixed green, teal and turquoise Saori style weavings. Colorful and fantastical design. Rainbow refractions through water and clouds. Life and shapes. The different hues and shades of ocean water, from aqua to deep blue.
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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My ocean-honoring shawl with freeform overshot motifs, almost a year in the making 🌈 Weave amazing art with little looms 🌀 #SmallBusinessSaturday #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #overshot 🧶 #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall
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A large rainbow, turquoise and navy blue shawl draped over a white/light wood shoji screen. The fabric is five scarf width vertical sections sewn together selvedge to selvedge. The outer and middle panels combine rainbow spectrum sections of different lengths with varying textured yarns with turquoise on navy geometric, spiral and sea life motifs: peace symbol, seahorse, diamond twills, scallop shell, double spiral, etc. The two panels in between the other three are mixed green, teal and turquoise Saori style weavings. Colorful and fantastical design. Rainbow refractions through water and clouds. Life and shapes. The different hues and shades of ocean water, from aqua to deep blue.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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I love wearing my handwovens. Faux ikat huck lace shawl (my handspun cotton weft), sakiori cross body bag with a weft faced strap 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven 🧶 #8Shaft#slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #WeavingPatterns #ShopSmall #IndieArt #IndieRetail #SupportSmallBiz
Brunette mixed Balkan person with a buzzcut and glasses wearing a colorful ensemble: aqua and muted rainbow striped thin shawl blowing in the wind. Blues and purples small cross body bag with a rag rug like fabric (neater fabric strips), dark plum scoop neck top, large plum butterfly oyster shell necklace with turquoise heishi beads. Navy pants. Standing near a cliffside, back to the ocean, visible upper left side of photo, dark blue water and blue sky. Cliff has scrubby dry season vegetation.
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A Saori tunic with freeform overshot motifs, including freeform overshot motifs & twill & tabby stripes. It’s Trans Awareness Week. Trans people deserve to grow old 🏳️‍⚧️ #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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A freeform frame loom art yarn vest from Wearable Handwoven Art on Any Loom. Weave amazing creations on simple & small looms 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns
Back view of me wearing a handwoven vest with textured art yarns with handspun coils, wavy flowy lilac/magenta vertical stripes 5+ centimeters wide, and aqua/light turquoise lens shaped spots. At top middle of the back is a large magenta outlined lilac heart with spirals forming the top two heart bumps. Black clothing underneath. Brunette buzz cut. I’m leaning on a wrought iron railing overlooking a condo building’s interior courtyard. Overcast gray sky.
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A faux ikat chenille wrap I made from a single space dyed skein. I added mercerized cotton fringe to extend the length and the rainbow color spectrum 🌈 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #WeavingPatterns
A rainbow shawl that goes from royal purple (left end) to blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and fuchsia across its width. Fuzzy zigzag color transitions. Each side folded over to create a trapezoid on a red brick patio. Velvety texture. Long fine fringe. A yellow three leaf cluster lies on the dark royal purple fringe, a green three leaf cluster on the red.
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Fossil seashell cross sections on the beach at a super-moon low tide in between king tides this week. Delmar Formation, 48 million years old, Torrey Pines State Beach, San Diego. A beautiful afternoon walk across what is normally the sea floor 𓇼🌊🐚🐬 #FossilFriday #MolluscMonday @kingtides.bsky.social
Wide flat expanse of firm wet sand under a blue blue sky, Pacific Ocean to the left, facing north. Along the right side is the end edge of a thick sandstone mesa sloping down to the ground. Right lower foreground, a gray, uneven, sandy rock is exposed, a little above the sand. Beige fossils are lit up by slanted autumn afternoon sunlight coming from behind the scene to the south over the ocean. A long pointy shell cross section, little bubbly chambers on each side of a middle line jumps out at the viewer, surrounded by curled of roundish shells.
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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My feline twill top. Rigid heddle & #4Shaft. Handwoven inkle band ribbons around the neck & front 🌀 YES ON PROP 50 🌊𓇼🐚🐬
#FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns
Me wearing a colorful Mexican huipil style top with fringe and a long purple skirt at a grassy park at the beach. Mixed Balkan brunette with a buzz cut and glasses, magenta/lavender/aqua handwoven top with asymmetrical fringe on the right side and three rainbow space dyed ribbons sewn around the neckline and front. Geometric design on purple skirt. Grassy park, sand and ocean and blue sky behind. Palm trees and colorful beach umbrellas in the distance.
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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My latest Saori weaving is off the loom. Ocean intertidal zone inspired. I am combining it with another fabric to make a shawl 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns
A long 18+ foot scarf width blue green fabric with different textures and yarn colors alternating in a non-regular way. It’s draped in a zigzag over a shoji screen, white and light wood. Six sections hanging down, two ends and two loops.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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A handwoven cotton fabric scrap (Japanese sakiori) coat & bag (weft faced strap), a handwoven #4Shaft & #8Shaft cotton top underneath. Cotton quilting fabric pants with ammonites 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #sakiori #WeavingPatterns
Blue clothing in coordinated shades and hues with some purples. Mixed Balkan brunette person with a buzz cut and glasses. Japanese style light coat and top. Cross body bag. In front of a large pine tree in a yard with a turquoise wooden fence.
October 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Saori weaving texture. I am almost finished 🐬🌊🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #Seaside #WeavingPatterns
Closeup of fabric pulled tight on a loom: weft yarn is curly shiny aqua boucle bumps with a thinner, space dyed yarn in hues of teal, light blue, navy and violet. Navy blue warp yarn.
October 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Freeform overshot creates illustrations and complex patterns on simple looms. My seahorse is a Seashell Scarf pattern 🌀𓇼🌊🐚
#FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns #koginEmbroidery
Blue on purple and purple on blue seahorses mirroring each other, the back and front of the same motif. Above is a photo collage of six tiny photos of me wearing colorful handwoven scarves and wraps: brunette with a buzz cut. Text Visit Lisa Rayner Handwovens on Etsy | Freeform overshot is a reversible pick up weaving technique for rigid heddle, frame, and pin looms, and any shaft looms. My seahorse is 64 ends wide.
October 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Saori weaving inspired by the rocky coast, sea star dotted tide pools & stunning sunset skies of San Diego
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#FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #WeavingPatterns #TorreyPines #tidepools #sunset #california
A collage of two weaving photos and two beach photos. Blues and greens and wavy, uneven shapes and textures tie them together: clockwise from top left: 1 . a rectangular Mexican Talavera tile tray with lime green and purple florals holding 10 white shuttle bobbins with different matte and shiny yarns in emeralds, limes, jewel greens, and turquoise, light and navy blues, smooth and boucles. 2 . A rocky beach with large, intense spring green algae covered boulders under stormy gray skies. 3 . Scarf width fabric on a small loom with dashes of navy blue, light blue and emerald yarn and bumpy boucle soft muted turquoise yarn. 4 . Sunset clouds with yellow highlights against a turquoise blue sky, colors reflected in ocean water swash on sand with ocean to the horizon. Trippy.
September 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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A sweater I wove one autumn from my own hand dyed wool. I have a tiny rigid heddle loom that weaves 4x4 inch squares (see my little loom patterns) 🌀 #PinLoomWeaving
#ShowMeYourKnits #FiberArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #WeavingPatterns
A checkerboard fuchsia and aqua sweater, speckled yarn squares. Boxy design but drapey fit crossed over my front and attached with a copper spiral shawl pin. Shawl collar. Green silk blouse underneath, fuchsia silk pants. Me, a brunette mixed Balkan person with a buzz cut and glasses. Yellow leaves on tall poplars behind me.
September 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Maya is helping me warp my loom and roll bobbins. I’m weaving companion fabric to fabric with freeform overshot motifs I wove last spring. I’m making a Saori shawl 🌀 #Caturday #FiberArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #WeavingPatterns
A collage of two photos: on the left a vertical twisted skein of hand dyed yarn in splotches of lime green, aqua, navy blue and purple. Ob the right a short haired black cat looks up at the camera, big yellow eyes, sitting on a turquoise stool.
September 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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#Caturday memory 🐈‍⬛ Pablo the Cutest Tuxedo Cat with a hand dyed, handspun wool scarf on my Schacht Cricket rigid heddle loom 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #ArtYarn 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #WeavingPatterns #handspun
A pensive but cute tuxedo cat sits upper left behind a little wooden loom on an ivory flannel sheet on a bed. The loom has a bright pink and lavender thick wool scarf on it . The yarn has splashes of cobalt blue, lemon yellow and more. Splotchy color pattern. The tuxedo cat has white paws, white whiskers, a white chest with a little white goatee chin, and is otherwise black. Very symmetrical. Long haired, looking at the camera.
September 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM