Da ich ja jetzt den neuen Bortenwebrahmen habe, kann ich endlich auch draußen in der Sonne weben und muss mich nicht mehr irgendwo anbinden ;) Ich habe mich mal an einem Muster aus Finnland versucht, das mir sehr gut gefällt, hier in Wolle gewebt. Now that I have my new tablet weaving loom, I'm more mobile and can weave outside, enjoying the sun. I tried a pattern from Finland in wool. It turned out very nice :) Schließlich hatte ich dann ca. 4,20m Borte :) In the end I had about 4,20m. Also schnell das nächste Projekt aufgeschärt. Ich liebe ja die tollen broschierten Borten aus Birka. Ich habe mir auch vor einiger Zeit dafür sehr dünnes Wollgarn und Metallicfaden besorgt. Then I went on with another project. I love the brocaded bands from the viking age settlement at Birka, Sweden. Some time ago I bought some very thin wool yarn and metallic thread to make those bands. Geijer, Agnes. Die Textilfunde aus den Gräbern, Vol. III of Birka: Untersuchungen und Studien. Uppsala: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akadamien (1938). Pp. 83, fig. 20. Ich habe mich für das Muster vom Band B20 entschieden, in blauer Wolle und Goldfaden. I decided to weave the B20 pattern in blue wool and golden thread. Hier kann man gut sehen, wie dünn die Wolle ist. Da geht das Weben zwar relativ langsam voran, es sieht aber einfach gut aus. Here you can see, how thin the yarn actually is. This makes the weaving process quite slow, but the pattern turns out very nice.
Bright and Fun Colours! The Ashford Umercerised Cotton yarn is made of 100% cotton and is available in 18 beautiful modern colours. Choose from two yarn weights. Weave on your table loom or rigid heddle looms. Specifications Weight/type: Ne 5/2 Composition: 100% unmercerised cotton Unit weight: 200gm cone Length per unit: Ne 5/2, 848m/927yds, Ne 10/2, 1696m/1854yds Wraps per inch: 5/2 - 30, 10/2 - 40 Weaving sett: 5/2:15-20, 10/2: 20-28 Care instructions: warm iron, dry cleanable, do not bleach
I got an inkle loom for Christmas!! Actually, I got the parts to make a loom out of PVC pipe, which made me so happy because A) it was fun ...
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Learn how to read an inkle draft, choose an inkle loom, and where to find more information about this weaving method.
A round-up of the best weaving tutorials for beginners - if you've always wanted to get into weaving, here are some super easy-to-follow tutorials from some professional weavers! Such a fun hobby to start up and use up that yarn stash!
I’ve recently been interested in learning more about weaving, and last month my mom helped that interest along by giving me a rigid heddle weaving loom as a birthday gift. I’ve enjoye…
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Here's the perfect course for beginners - it costs almost nothing to get started! Ready for some weaving fun? $30 Click below to purchase on my sister site, where my courses live. Weave with Lucy - Weave Easy Mug Rugs
Basketweave Setup – Thread Placement The Honeycomb Effect By Lady Johanna Fleming Step by Step 1) Start by warping a bor...
Weaving a filled tubular cord with a weaving disc. This blog accompanies two articles in the Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. h...
Weaving colorful weft threads through plain warp threads, Smith suspends web-like miniature tapestries in natural frames.
She who dies with the most looms wins. At this point I think I have 5 looms. The simplest looms I have is this board loom. Aside from the backstrap method I believe it’s probably the simplest loom to build at home. My husband made my board loom from a 1×6 of quilted birch. The base is 5.5″ x 18″.…Continue Reading→
Images via Koron007 Centuries ago, fabric was a rare and precious commodity only the wealthy could afford. So people treasured old and worn-out pieces of clothing to recycle and reuse in order to make new clothes. Thus the sakiori was born. Sakiori comes from the word "saki" which means to tear up or rip and "ori" which means weave. Recycling old fabric remnants into sakiori weavings follows the Japanese indispensable concept of “mottainai” or not wasting precious cloth that can prolong the fabric’s useful life through recycling and reuse. Weaving all these remnants of fabric was immensely hard work back then, however very rewarding and worth the effort as clothing made from repurposed cotton was vastly warmer, softer, and more durable than the rough linens that could be made from Japan’s natural fibers. Sakiori was mostly used to make rugs and covers, but also clothes - mostly jackets and vests. Today, the technique is experiencing a resurgence as a "green", ethical and economical art form. Image via Sources I used to write this post: Sakiori History, Sakiori Weaving, Sakiori Bag.
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Learn how to make a Potholder Rug! Hand-drawn illustrations in this 7-page DIY tutorial show the exact steps for upcycling old clothing and material to create a beautiful, durable potholder rugs. Please note: This tutorial does not include directions on how to make a loom. Looms are available for purchase in my Etsy shop. Potholder Rugs use a lot of material with very little waste. The average 2.5x3.5ft rug made on our standard-sized Potholder Rug loom, weighs 7lbs. Figure there is a 30% waste factor so you will need about 10 lbs of raw material garments to make your first rug. Keep in mind that different kinds of fiber weigh substantially differing amounts — an XXL Fleece weighs a lot less than an XXL Cotton Sweatshirt. I encourage you to use my technique as much as you desire. Kindly credit me when using this technique that I have devised and developed since 1990. See below for the story of how Potholder Rugs came to be! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Thanks for looking! Check out my upcoming events and workshops, read my blog, and see my latest work at www.crispina.com. My work is listed here on Etsy, and it is also sold in artists' markets and on my website. We make every effort to consistently update our online inventory for accuracy. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CRISPINA — INVENTOR OF POTHOLDER RUGS While a college student at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, I began using wool sweaters from the thrift shop to make Ragamuffin dolls that I developed as schoolwork and sold at The Cambridge Artist Cooperative. The raw material was completely awesome to me. I loved the colors, textures, sourcing, and price; and felt as though a magical mine of possibility had been discovered. Soon, mittens, then blankets and reconstructed sweaters were being compiled by a bevvy of amazing hand sewers under my employ. My penchant for material was married to the calling I still feel — to creatively inspire an alternative to excessive consumption. My work was in high demand and finding enough material was becoming difficult. Paul Petrescu, and old and dear friend of my father, had recently defected from Romania, and was living with my parents in Stockbridge, MA. He was an Eastern European Folk Art Scholar and was intrigued by my work. When he learned of my material conundrum, Paul told me of a wholesale used clothing place called The Garment District in Cambridge, MA (with his perfect, albeit accented, English). I never learned how he, having been in the country for only a matter of months at the time, knew this key to launching my creative and environmental process to the next realm. He was one of the angels along the way. So off I went with a beat up old van to check The Garment District out. I came home with the van stuffed full of garbage bags brimming with the most amazing wool sweaters and a head whirring with ideas and inspiration. Within a few weeks my treasure trove of material had turned into a pile of sweaters, mittens, and Ragamuffins, which were turning into a pocketful of money. Back I went to my new-found fellow recyclers at The Garment District, this time returning with a 1000 lb. bale of sweaters. Bruce Cohen, proprietor of the place let me and my sidekick, Charlie sort through eight or ten 1000lb bales of ‘wool knits’ to gather the most suitable material for my production needs. AMAZING. As I was rummaging through the mountains of material in the 100-year-old family business housed in an awesomely dingy warehouse, I thought a lot about all the material there. What was the process? Where did it all come from? Who else used this sort of raw material, and, for what purpose? An education ensued, far beyond the formal BFA I had recently fixed under my belt. A full bale of unsorted wool knits was purchased as an experiment to see what could be designed with all the materials we had previously sorted. Lo and behold, Potholder Rugs came to be. They can be made from sweaters with holes and stains, ones that were not really wool at all, bottom-of-the-barrel materials work just fine.
Inkle loom weaving is easier than you think and is a great way to start weaving for beginners especially with this FREE guide and 5 free weaving projects.
I get asked in my spinning classes " what do you do with hand spun art yarns?" I say " It is ART, you hang it up and and enjoy it!" BUT i also like to weave with my art yarns… if i use for weft i use my Saori looms, but if i want the art yarns in the WARP and also the WEFT i use my loom ashford rigid heddle loom buy here along with there exclusive freedom roller and i use the exclusive heddle size for the ashford looms in 2.5 size which fits my art yarns here are my two latest art yarn scarves what is this thing I have in my hand???? it is the new ASHFORD HANDI HANDLEin my Etsy shop. this brand new handle allows you to advance your cloth or warp beam easily if you have mobility issues with your hands,( which i do not but i still love the feel of this new tool and use all the time ) absolutely brilliant it comes in 2 sizes. smaller for the ashford sample it looms, and knitters looms, also a larger size for the ashofrd rigid heddle and table looms! love my ashford rigid heddle loom it is the only rh loom with the exra roller beam you can add called the freedom roller ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ after i wove the bright sparkly scarf i wove a guy art art scarf I strongly dislike all the clamps on all rigid heddle looms! so i use a Irwin med size bar clamp to hold the loom and to use in place of the stupid clamp and peg that are sent for warping. no more flying off peg disastrous episodes ! they are less then $10 at the hardware store the sucess is in part to the 2.5 heddle and the ashford freedom roller again which allows you to put more than a few yards on your ashforsd rh loom! \ soaked and drying in gingko leaves ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Suzan drove down from Redding for a SAORI TRY IT CLASS CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO I love the saori C H60 LOOM click here ALL Saori looms have bulit in bobbin winders! and as a newer weaver Suzan absolutely adored weaving on the saori CH60 loom! She broiught a weaving she just finished to show me a hand spun while long rug! I asked her if she know how to spin yarn? she said no the yarn was in a bag that came with a old loom she was given sooooo we went up stairs to the spinning studio and i taught her how to drop spin the golding bronze rimed spindles i use are here in my etsy shop these spindles are amazing "This was so much fun , and I learned so much, we will be back" PEACEFUL WEAVING AND SPINNING IN THE CALIFORNIA REDWOODS Jill Nickolene Sanderts WWW.SAORISANTACRUZ.COM
The traditional spinning and weaving tools are similar around the world: weaving looms, spinning wheels, spindles, combs, flying shuttles, etc. But because these items are handmade, each and every one of them is unique and original. Some of these tools are roughly and crudely made, others are delicate and decorated with intricately carved patterns. Here are images of vintage – appr. 100-year-old – spinning and weaving tools from Ukraine. Really charming stuff!
Here is a 4-shaft loom you can easily take anywhere with you. The 18" weaving width is ideal for workshops and for all those other narrow projects. The Wolf Pup LT features jacks and lamms, like its bigger siblings the Baby Wolf and Mighty Wolf, that allow shafts to be tied to any of its 6 treadles, in whatever combination your weave structure requires. We’ve used the same sturdy X-frame and barrel-nut construction for our Wolf Pup looms as we use for our other Wolf looms. We also use many of the same components: steel hub friction brake, brake release foot pedal, aluminum harness channels, and an attached beater pin. Taller weavers may prefer the Height Extender loom. Need more shafts (also called harnesses) on an 18" loom? Check out the Wolf Pup 8.10.
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Le fil Yoga se compose d'un filament en nylon entièrement recouvert de coton. Ce fil alliant force et élasticité permet de créer des vêtements, des bas notamment, naturellement confortables et beaux. Il est idéal pour le tricot, le crochet et le tissage, pour la confection de tissus, de vestes, de chandails, d'écharpes, de châles et d'articles ménagers. Le tissage sur le métier rigide à peigne envergeur fait ressortir la qualité et la brillance de ce fil, et sa légère élasticité réduit les éventuels problèmes de tension. Ce fil est en 2/8, mais il se tisse comme le 2/5. Il peut être utilisé en chaîne, en trame ou être combiné avec d'autres types de fils. Composition : 82% coton, 18% nylon (filament central) Poids d'une bobine : 200g Longueur : environ 1260m/1386 yards Utilisation en chaîne et en trame Nombre de fils au pouce en chaîne : 14 à 20 Tricot aiguilles : 2-3 mm
6-20-22 - I still love the pattern, it is so beautiful! But I wasn’t able to fix the mess I made, without making more of a mess. It had worn me out. So I cut it off the loom, I would have only bee...
Original... Topside and Reverse (This could be Estonian or German!) I saw this pattern on line somewhere and I just had to make it. I had to carve a wider band loom to work it because the whole pattern uses 92 Threads, 46 holes and 46 slots. After I made my loom, I found I still made it too narrow. My new loom uses up to 80 Threads, so I had to drop the 6 thread borders. I like the colors. On the original you can see the 3 colors (plus white), red, turquoise and blue. It is not so hard as it looks. It helps to follow the chart row by row and then you don't have to think about the 3 different sections...it will just all fall into place. Close up with dotted border. Pulling up that side red thread to show it more. Pattern draft. Start at bottom. When you get to the top of the chart you will have one extra white row in the side patterns because the two side pick-ups do not align with the middle pick-up. My first attempt at this was so pretty that I cut it into sections and framed them. My next attempt will include the side border dots. I am looking for a closer color match and I want all 3 colors in wool. Background white threads are cotton so the piece will not stretch. As soon as I make a wider loom that is! Happy weaving!
Ashford Skein Winder The Ashford skeiner is designed to wind skeins with ease. The skeiner is tensioned and adjustable to sizes between 100cm and 200cm. The skeiner can be used on all yarns types with its built-in tensioner is designed to suit fine to bulky yarn. It's made from solid Silver Beech hardwood and can hold up to 1.5kg of yarn. The adjustable lock-in pegs of the Ashford Skeiner 2 allow you to make a variety of skin sizes ranging from 1 - 2 m in length. The skein winder is smooth to use due to the high-quality nylon bearings. Made with a lacquered the Ashford Skeiner 2 is a great addition to your craft studio.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The journey from flax crop in the field to finished linen cloth (even before washing and bleaching) has many steps. The transformation from a retted sheath of flax, from the field to flax fibres ready for warp-weighted loom weaving is remarkable. We start with scratchy and straw-like and end with floppy and silky. It takes […]
INTRODUCTIONHow many looms is too many? As an owner of a rigid heddle loom, a floor loom, bookmark looms, square frame looms, an 8 shaft table loom, a tapestry loom and circular frame looms I can now add an inkle loom to the growing list of treasured looms that I enjoy weaving on. My first floor loom purchase was made about 6 years ago and on collecting the second hand loom the previous owner was incredibly kind in giving me several books. One of the books was called 'Inkle Weaving' by Helene
SKEINS: 4 skeins of Season Alpaca SIZE: 12 ½ inches x 72 inches long COLOR: Dove Gray
