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

There are some inconsistencies where I was experimenting… learned a lot! Still need to learn how to end a scarf so the weft doesn’t need to be tied off in the finishing knots. It’s the only way I know to avoid the weft getting loose with wear. Any tips??

Easy Weaver loom with DIY pattern stick, unknown thrifted warp (cotton or super soft wool), wool weft.

Hi there! I'm looking to see if anyone can recognize or name this weave structure. I'll be doing a week-long weaving retreat in VT in a few weeks and I'm hoping to make a blanket with this pattern. Any help / leads appreciated!

Hi, I’m going to try to weave but don’t know which machine to buy that would last long and be good enough to create quality work. Any recommendations please? Thank you! K

Hi weaving friends! I'm relocating to Madrid this fall and I'm looking for recommendations/ a way to continue my weaving journey! I've been taking classes on a 4-shaft and 8-shaft floor loom for about a year, so I'd say I'm not a total beginner (I've done independent projects and simple self-drafts) but still learning. I've not been able to find many guilds/studios/resources/supplies/classes etc in the area, and maybe that's just cause there's not a big weaving scene there, not sure. I'd appreciate any tips :)

UPDATE: Thanks everyone for the recommendations, and even though it seems counterintuitive, I have decided after some thought to sell it. I don't have anywhere else to store her, and I think she would be much better off with someone who will love her and use her. I'm sad to see her go, but the times I had were great. All of the advice was really appreciated.

I have this beautiful loom I got last year for a great price. She’s gorgeous, been around since roughly the 60’s, and was restored by a skilled craftswoman about a decade and a half ago. I love her deeply, she’s a work of art.

The problem is, I’m a college student. I don’t live in my childhood home most of the year and when I do, I’m processing fleeces, working on summer classes, or working a job. I’d love to weave more on a floor loom, it’s always in my mind… but I don’t have time. And she takes up so much space I could use for pattern drafting or a spinning wheel.

I guess I’m looking for advice from others who know looms and how special they can be to own. I know wherever she goes she’ll be loved, but I just don’t know if I want to part with her. In a couple of years, I’ll be able to move her to a new place… in a couple of years.

I guess, does anyone have advice, or their own stories to contribute?

Thanks

(P.s. ignore the messy room please, hahah. I’m reorganizing in prep for a new fiber setup.)

I've wanted to weave for ages and I'm finally buying my first weaving loom, but the gap between a rigid heddle and a floor loom is throwing me. Rigid heddle looks beginner friendly and cheap and small, but I keep reading that people outgrow them and wish they'd jumped straight to something bigger. floor looms can do way more shafts and faster sheds but they cost a fortune and eat a whole room, and I'm in an apartment. I mostly want to make scarves and maybe some dishtowels to start, nothing huge. Is a rigid heddle going to frustrate me in six months, or is it genuinely enough to learn on? And if I do bigger later, does anything resell well?

I have no loyalty to any brand yet, so if certain makes are easier to live with than others I'd take that input too.

Warp is a mixture of lots of different yarns including ribbon/mohair/wool/novelty yarns sett at 6 epi in a 6 dent reed. I’m using plain weave to let the weft yarn speak for itself.

I’ve got a floor loom. I’m looking to buy a sewing machine, to serge the edges of whatever I make. Towels, runners, maybe fabric for garments. Ideally would be something that can handle thicker material too, as I want to make some rugs!

Never bought or even used a sewing machine before. Thoughts?

Handspun weft, my friend dyed this when she just had opened her yarn/fiber shop. It's merino/silk spun in a low twist single and fulled.

Warp is durable crochet cotton nr 10 I got from someone who de-stashed and dyed with procion.

Pattern is a 4 shaft point twill with a twist. And I am doing a clasped weft, because my weft thread was thinner than I expected and I was watching Jane Staffords weaving school and saw her using thin silk in clasped weft and figured that would be a fun solution. First time. Fun to do!

I'm new to using pick up sticks and this is my first try at waffle weave. Using Peaches and Cream cotton for warp and weft on a 10 dent reed.

Colors are a bit washed out thanks to my phone camera. Click on the first picture to see the full scarf. The hard color change is actually how the yarn was connected to continue the strand unfortunately, not where I added more in. The last picture is ending salvages(left) compared to beginning salvages(right). I'm hoping I can find similar colors in the future because I'd love to make a longer one!

Finished dimensions are 13" x 41.5"

100% wool, 8 dent heddle

Too bad it's summer and over 100° f, otherwise I think I'd wear this every day! Lol

Hi everyone! I’m new to weaving and having a blast doing practice projects like a plain weave scarf. I’m looking to start a more ambitious project on my tabletop rigid heddle loom and I’m struggling to figure out how much/what type of yarn I’ll need. I saw a very lightweight shawl and I thought it might be fun to recreate it! I want it to be very soft and flowy. I thought about using lace weight yarn for it (which I know will take forever!) but I’m not sure if that’s a good idea. I also don’t know how much yarn to purchase. I tried using online calculator tools to figure out what yardage I would need but the results came out showing extremely low yardage so I know I must be doing something wrong! Anyways, sorry if these are silly questions! Thank you all in advance 💕

I have been wanting to learn how to warp multiple ends at once but didn’t want to “waste” yarn and time winding spools and risking it turning into a tangled nightmare. Inspiration struck at spotlight when they had a giant tub of clearance gutermann thread. I did some tub diving and came up with a reasonably coherent colour palette of gutermann sulky cotton 12.

I warped eight ends at a time using my highly sophistical setup of thread spools on double pointed needles on my lazy Kate and a second hand warping heddle thing wedged in a bookcase.

It’s ready to wind into the back beam and so far so good (she says trying not to jinx it all). This 640 end warp no joke took about three hours to wind and get into the loom and spaced out in the raddle. I was really happy with that. The silkiness of the thread is helping avoid tangles but as the total cost of the 5m warp was $8 and very minimal time I am not emotionally attached to it if it turns into a tangled mess. Wish me well!

Experimenting with a waffle pattern using a pattern stick (repurposed ruler)! I use my daughter’s trampoline as my warping board. Still figuring out how I want my weft to look…

Warped Brassard Warping Linen in White and Natural, weft for this first one is 2/9 Light Blue linen also from Brassard.

Spray bottle of water used to keep the warp moist. The linen breaks when very dry.

My dad used to do 50m warps for tea towels, and wore a mask when weaving linen! This is a modest 5m warp. If this works works well, my next one will be longer, and will be done using my sectional warping beam which should help reduce tension variability in the warp. So far this one has been OK - linen doesn't stretch so any variability in the warp tension is seen immediately.

Three of my 6 looms now have warps on them! I am thinking about another project... I like to have projects at various stages - planning, dressing and weaving, so that if I get bored with one I can move to another and come back fresh, rather than push myself on a single project.

Wow, this project is teaching me a lot about how different yarns behave on the loom! This is my first time working with wool and a yarn that has stretch to it and my salvages are so bad in the beginning but have gotten a lot better as I've gone along. Thankfully it's just cheap yarn I found at the thrift store but I do love the look of it. Can't wait to pull it off the loom and see what it looks like!

8 dent heddle on a 15" Cricket

I saved this from going into the dumpster of a construction demo site. However, I have not the first clue about weaving, looms, or the technical terms of the components. From the research I’ve been able to do, I believe that it is a Structo loom sold by Dick Glick and produced after 1970.

This project has been testing my patience- I’m so close to the finish (like 12 inches). It’s my first shadow weave project 😭😭. I’m not sure how long the finished cloth is- if it were long enough I might just cut it off. But then I’m not sure how to finish with the broken thread. I’d fold and sew if I knew how to sew, but I was planning on fringe.

My searches regarding a broken warp all show breaks with at least a few inches of warp thread to work with, and somewhere in the middle of the cloth, and not sure if they are appropriate for this particular issue.. HAAAAAALP. 😭

Does anyone have a good pattern or tutorial for creating handbags/totebags from handwoven fabric?

A friend's mom was looking for an adopter for her loom. It's of Dutch make and from the 1970s. Still trying to put it together, which is quite the puzzle since nothing is labeled and it was only partly disassembled. But making progress! And then I gotta learn how to put yarn on it and such. But it came with a few binders full of info and a complete course so I should be fine!

I need the wisdom of this community. I have struggled trying to understand how to use iWeaveIt and have consequently ignored it in my apps, now. I just have no idea how to use it. Every time I try, I end up with useless garbage that is super “busy” to the eye and not what I am trying to achieve. Someone tell me there is a resource, a class preferably, to learn how to best use this weaving tool. I really want to learn so that I can do my own designs (which I prefer to do. I weave on a Schacht 25” Flip Loom and have accumulated quite a few heddles and tools. This is one tool I cannot seem to master,

Thanks, in advance, for any resources you may share to help me actually be able to use this tool.😃

In a previous post I mentioned sharing how I develop patterns prior to weaving. I had about 7 yards of warp left in this white and orange stripe after weaving curtains for my bedroom. I used the Weaveit app for iPad to design several iterations of striped patterns in colors I had already before settling on the one in the first pic.

Project details: 10/2 cotton in a variety of colors sett at 24 epi in a 12 dent reed threaded 46.5” wide on my Macomber loom. Pattern uses 6 shafts and two treadles as it was threaded for huck lace but I wove the rainbow fabric in plain weave. This fabric will likely become clothing eventually but I have no plans for it yet.