Handweaving.net is a weaving archive containing thousands of historic and modern weaving drafts as well as digitized versions of old textiles documents produced by Ralph Griswold. As of this writing in early 2024, Handweaving.net is nearly 20 years old and remains ever popular among weavers!

I am Kris Bruland, a software architect living on Whidbey Island, near Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. and the author of this site. My wife helps with Handweaving.net and our kids tolerate it. Weaving is just one of my many interests and it represents a particularly rich subject area when combined with math and computer science, two other things I also enjoy.

Fabric drawdowns naturally incorporate beautiful geometric patterns, and there are quite a few books and papers on textile mathematics related to the expression of threads interleaving to form cloth. Patterns and symmetry are particularly appealing to me and I notice them in nearly everything.