When a fellow weaver can’t help but touch your handwoven scarf, shawl, or other project, it’s known as the weaver’s handshake. In this issue you’ll find projects with all kinds of tempting textures that other weavers won’t be able to leave alone. Among the 21 projects featured in the issue, you’ll find tea towels woven with bouclé cotton, a colorful scarf with differential shrinkage, puffy embellished pin loom and rigid heddle pillows, and a traditional Icelandic wall hanging woven using unspun wool locks. If you’re looking to add some texture to a project you’ve already woven, you’ll also find an article on visible mending where you’ll learn how to use a darning loom.