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Lisa Rayner Handwovens

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Weaving designer • Author • They Longtime community organizer Thalassophile 🌊 LisaRaynerHandwovens.Etsy.com https://lisaraynerbooks.com www.lulu.com #FiberArt #dysautonomia #Autist ♿️🦓♾️ #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #SSDI 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈😷🐈‍⬛ #Disabled #ChronicIllness #weaver

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · Aug 26

I design weaving patterns for all looms. I specialize in freeform overshot & twill pick up patterns. Read Freeform Overshot for Beginners 🌀 #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · Nov 28

My newest freeform overshot scarf, inspired by bogolan mud cloth designs.

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 1d

But blue sky, sunshine and the ocean help a lot.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot to mention that I have severe arthritis in multiple joints, including my feet/toes. And osteoarthritis is mast cell mediated. The “wear and tear only” belief is a minimization myth 🦓 #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #EDSer #ActuallyAutistic

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it’s still Friday in southern California. No, I can’t wait for Saturday to post about Caturday 🐈‍⬛

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 1d

Saori weaving, my wife’s roses, blue sky over the Pacific Ocean from our balcony. EDS is complicating recovery from broken toe & double ankle sprains 🌀 #Caturday #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #Seaside #WeavingPatterns

Collage photo of a brilliant deep blue sky on a west facing balcony near the ocean. Greens/blues textured Saori scarf width fabric on a little wooden rigid heddle loom on a stand, and three large cobalt blue pots with small rose plants against an art deco inspired wrought iron railing. A black cat lies on the concrete floor in front of the pots, reflection in their shiny surfaces. Another four story condo section visible below the sky. Bottom photo of teal fluorite green ocean on a rocky shoreline,

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 1d

I’m doing my part in CA ✅

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 2d

My wife and I are nodding in agreement.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 4d

My vote has been counted.
Go Prop 50 🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of
Registrar of Voters. Your
ballot for the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election was received and counted. Thank you for voting!

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 4d

Please add alt text to a post of this logo. I’m a small business owner and would like to share a post like this with a weaving patterns post but I only repost pics with alt text. #disabled

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 7d

I keep thinking about ridiculous “high support needs” vs low. Ppl who don’t know me assume low support bc “gifted” (I reject label), what appears to be a successful career & community awards. But I’ve never maintained a job, SSDI $540. Financially dependent on parents/spouse, no friends, etc.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 7d

Glowing yellow cottonwood leaves reflected in a pond against a clear blue sky, La Cienega, New Mexico, near Santa Fe.

#BlueSKyArtShow #Glow

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 7d

Loom-shaped vest, Pampa Loom frame loom, glow-in-the-dark-yarn with #embroidery

#BlueSKyArtShow #Glow
#FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #FrameLoom #PampaLoom #WeavingPatterns

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 13d

Torrey Pines Pacific sunset a couple of weeks ago. Most beaches are not accessible to people who can’t walk. Nature is my muse. Art is resistance. #StunDay #disabled #EhlersDanlosSyndrome

Amazing sunset with blazes of oranges, yellows and turquoise blue skies. The colors are reflected in water saturated sand above the swash from surf waves. Proof that some clouds at sunset often make sunsets more beautiful than clear skies. The low, thin marine layer clouds condense in front of the setting sun. The reflection effect makes the beach look like a fairy land.

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 13d

Sitting up to weave is difficult. I don’t have a weaving set up designed to work without feet and legs holding my loom stand in place.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 13d

I sprained BOTH feet yesterday walking & my shoulders can’t handle crutches. Thanks Ehlers Danlos Syndrome! #FiberArt #TextileArt #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving #overshot 🧶 #slowfashion #weavesky #bskyweavers #RigidHeddleWeaving #Audhd #OvershotWeaving #ssdi #WeavingPatterns #disabled

Handwoven tunic: A brunette person with a buzz cur, brown hair graying at the sides, glasses, smiling. My arms are outstretched. I’m wearing a red purple top made of five narrow fabric panels sewn together vertically. Yellow, orange, fuchsia, lilac weft yarns in spectrum stripes with periodic motifs like a lilac Venus of Willendorf on the right bottom front. Plum leggings. Concrete wall with water designs and part of a water poem attributed to St. Francis of Assisi.

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 14d

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.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 18d

In 4th grade my teacher told me to become friends with my bully/abuser. This seems exactly ridiculous like that.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 22d

I do Saori weaving. I have two single bobbin shuttles and two double bobbin shuttles for maximum flexibility swapping out yarns.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 22d

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.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 22d

It’s good to see some proof that billionaires and capitalists in general are using trans people and all DEIA work as as scapegoat bait to distract the public from their overrun of planetary boundaries

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 26d

I don’t know. 40+ year old yarn from my mother’s stash. Something popular in the late 70s/early 80s! Not the softest. I was practicing my dyeing skills.

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 26d

Transgender rights are human rights. If you throw trans/nonbinary people under the bus, as you seek determined to do, you’re throwing human rights under the bus. Capitulation to fascists has never won an election.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 27d

Knitted edging with sock yarn 🧶

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 27d

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.

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Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 28d

Great to know! I have an iPad and need ebooks.

Lisa Rayner Handwovens @lisarayn.bsky.social · 28d

I just got my San Diego city and county library cards! What would you say is the biggest difference between the contents of the two collections? Thanks in advance!

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