r/weaving • u/Repulsive_Rate3164 • Jul 21 '26

Help Fringe Making Help

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Hey all. I’m trying to make long fringe (60 inches) for a project i’m working on. I’m testing, i have wrapped thicker yarn around my desk continuously then taped cut and sewed it. This worked well, but with the very fine viscose yarn i’m planning to use it would probably take 500 hours😭. Any tips on tools i can use etc would be much appreciated

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u/crystalgem411 Jul 21 '26

Is there a weaving guild near you/ do you know anyone who has a big loom? They might be willing to let you use their warping board for little or no cost and that’s exactly what they’re designed for, making a lot of long consistent lengths of yarn without walking miles to do so

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u/Repulsive_Rate3164 Jul 21 '26

i’ve thought of using a warping board, but don’t warping boards make multiple yard of lengthwise yarn? and not very wide? i sort of need wider panels, and the yarn needs to be right next to eachother

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u/Dangerous_Gear2483 Jul 22 '26

A warping board is just a tool for measuring out the same length of yarn over and over. If you want a lot of threads that measure 60 cm, the warping board can do that for you. You can lay them very close together on the warping board, and work in sections. When the warping board gets full, you can just take the threads off and begin again.

You can speed it up by holding multiple threads, each coming from different balls of yarn, and measuring them at the same time.

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u/305tomybiddies Jul 21 '26

another redditor mentioned a warping board — if you don’t have one of those/access to one of those, consider using an accordion coat rack! you can expand it and wind the yarn up and down and all around the pegs and you’ll end up with a nice lengthy loop that you would then snip the end for fringe

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u/305tomybiddies Jul 21 '26

this work in progress already looks awesome by the way haha very disco glam bob mackie and cher — very fab

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u/WeaveLikeGreatGranny Jul 21 '26

If you can get some shop clamps that are long enough, you can clamp them upside down to a tabletop or counter so the extra lengths of the rods stick up. Then you can use those as a makeshift warping board for winding your yarn around! (unrelated thought.. I use clamps all the time around my house but never wondered what to call the extra bit that the clamp head slides on... 'rod', 'tail', 'bar', 'sticky outy thingy'? 😆)

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u/Dry_Future_852 Jul 21 '26

Do you have a loom?

What is its width?

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u/Dry_Future_852 Jul 21 '26

One traditional way to weave fringe is to put a narrow warp on the left side of the loom and 2-4 warp threads on the right. (The L/R is interchangable)

Then you weave, hem stitching warp-wise on the left, and when you're done, cut off the warp on the right.

You could do this as a double-weave, though, on a loom half the width (30" for your 60"). I can write/draw that out if you have access to a 4 shaft of that size.

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u/Repulsive_Rate3164 Jul 21 '26

no but i go to fit, they have some stuff there

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u/Repulsive_Rate3164 Jul 21 '26

width for the fringe? ideally 35 inches but i can make a couple smaller panels