The fiber-craft playground — print real charts, watch actual weavers and stitchers work, learn the knots, and mess with dumb little games.
A silent loop of this week's picks is playing up top — the wall below starts playing on its own as you scroll. Tap any video to watch it with sound right here, or open a craft channel on Fiber TV.
Fresh from the bench
News from the workshop, new drafts, what the along is weaving, what to watch next — all free, none of it a cart.
New: Fiber Bench 0.5.12 in closed testing — real four-hole drafts, 165 examples, take-up math in every supplies list. Plus the rug-craft comparison.
Now printing: six starter charts with keys and counts — the tablet checker-diamond band, the pickup spot band, the alpha "HI", and friends.
Countdown live: the checker-diamond tablet band drops the first Saturday — one draft, everybody, beginner-first.
Interactive: cards turning and threads surfacing, the double half hitch tying itself — animated demos on the Learn page, with step-by-step controls.
Explore
From bands off a real threading draft to rugs cut to any outline. Pick a craft to learn it — the app, Fiber Bench, hands every craft the draft or chart it is really worked from.
Long-form, tested guides — the warp you'll cut, the knots you'll learn, and the fixes for the things that go wrong mid-row.
Four-hole cards, S and Z threading, the turning sequence that makes the pattern, and a first band on the loom you already own.
Read the guide →Heddles, the shed, a plain-weave band this weekend, and how Baltic pickup builds letters onto the same warp.
Read the guide →The four knots, reading rows on rows, tension that keeps names straight, flat ends, and DMC floss that doesn't fray mid-pattern.
Read the guide →Double half hitches as drawing strokes — the knot families, the tension habit, and the small first sampler that teaches the grid.
Read the guide →Counts and what to cut, floss strands, loop starts, stitching one color's area from the center out, washing and framing.
Read the guide →Teachers and club leaders: every chart on the Charts page is free to print for a class. No sign-up, no watermark.
What's here
Charts you can print today, a weaving simulator to try tonight, video worth watching, and games for the tea-break. All free.
Starter charts for tablet weaving, inkle, alphas, cross-stitch, latch hook and filet — with counts, printed from the page.
Simulate a tablet-woven band, build an alpha bracelet from any name, and channel-surf real craft video on Fiber TV.
Guides, fiber science, a glossary of everything from S-threads to WPI, and a quiz to pick your first craft.
We add fresh charts, guides and videos regularly. Send an email with LIST in the subject line and you'll be told when something new lands. No spam — the mail volume is gentle, promise.
Building with the app? Fiber Bench works offline and never needs an account.
The bench family
Fiber Bench is part of a small family of maker apps. Each works alone — together they take a project the whole way: chart the band, warp it, dye the yarn before you start, finish it with knot work.
Stitch-math and Turk's head grids — the knot-work cousin for leather & paracord, printing full size to work from.
🫧The beading sibling: peyote, loom, kumihimo, bead crochet — charts that sit the way the beads do.
🍇Dye your own warp with natural-dye calculators — "2% alum" always says 2% of what.
🌍The live Earth on a desk globe — stitch the daylight terminator into a bargello wave from real data.
⚙️Costume sound triggers, a live-sky watch face, e-paper timers — the rest of the suite, all in closed testing.