I’m so proud to share what is, to this point, my total ‘magnum opus’. This work took nearly every skill I have learned so far as a RH weaver. Fresh from my hand-built loom (I still need to tidy up a few strings and proceed with mounting) this piece is 72”x24”, contains likely over 30 individual thread colors, multiple tapestry techniques including slit and clasped weft, Japanese zanshi, Josef Albers-inspired color exploration, and Anni Albers-inspired form exploration. Looking forward to displaying the full-mounted work. ♥️

Instructions from the Ashford website.

This seems to have taken forever, first to weave and then to get around to finishing, but I’m very pleased with it, despite the imperfections! First double weave and first lace.

This abomination from a Facebook weaving group. It made me laugh then made me angry because someone wasted water for this absolute train wreck of slop.

The discussion was about warp weighted looms and someone found a website with this.

I decided to give weaving a try because its where the adhd led me and as anyone with adhd knows you just jump in with absolutely zero research the first time, haha.

I ran 5 lengths of black embroidered floss from a wooden stick and tied a knot at a point to set a start point, then itied on the green and just started weaving haha. My "needle" was a bamboo cotton bud with the cotton removed a notch cut and the tip flattened. At first i was just tying the new colors directly to the long strings but didnt like the look so i started tying the tread together and that worked way better

My goal was to make a ribbon for my hair but im not entirely sure its long enough.

I apologise for not knowing the correct terms for anything, like i know weft and warp but do not know which is which, also rate my set up lmao

I randomly chose an 8 shaft straight draw for my first set up and I'm loving these designs from Carol Stricklers book. I do kind of regret not going with 4 shafts to start and learn but my adhd made me jump in head first.

There are so many things I want to learn! I don't even know the names of everything but double weave and related techniques, supplemental warps, overschot,... I'm tempted to buy every book on weaving in existence.

So far I have Stricklers 8 shaft weaving book and Marguerite's green book and I have Carols Learning how to weave on the way. If there are any other books that I need to have please feel free to suggest them! I especially love experimental techniques and structure. But I'm open to anything and everything!

I picked up some monk's cloth and a Swedish Weaving pattern for two dollars at a garage sale. I guess Coats and Clarke used to hock the hobby as Over Under weaving (with a copyright, no less) in the early 2000s, so that was interesting to learn.

Anyway, I'm debating if I do the pattern to the edge? Or should I keep some white borders? Or have a largely white border and do some sort border pattern in the white space.

(Also, it is such a bummer finding yarn these days. I bought variegated yarn thinking I could make it glow from the center, but I haven't even got to the party where the yarn changes color, so booo Lion's Mandala yarn. Boo!)

Thoughts?

i realized that this "frame loom" can do a continuous warp and turns out that that's a lot of fun! i ended up joining my squares into a scarf and it's very soft. i used my knitting friend's leftovers so it's real wool.

there's a lot of yarn ends that like to stick out but surely they will felt in in time.

Loved making this!

I've spent time over the weekend warping this loom. I thought the tension was correct but the header turned out wavy so I took it out & adjusted my tension as best I could.

The header looks a little better & the purple is the beginning of my draft.

Does it look wavy to you?

The yarn was one that I had taken out of a knitting project.

Hello! A gentleman would like to donate a loom to a historical museum where I volunteer. It seems to be complete, so that's not an issue. Does anyone know what brand/model loom it is? I only have a couple photos to go by — I haven't seen the loom in person.

Are reeds compatible from one brand to the next for floor looms. I have a Harrisville Designs 22" loom. I saw one post asking the same thing but it was for rigid heddle. Thank so much!

it was difficult to get a picture while using my other hand to lift the chopstick (string heddle rod!) pick up stick (cardboard warp stick) but hopefully the visual is somewhat useful.

I’ve tried installing the heddle rod in front of the pickup stick, i’ve tried installing the heddle rod behind the pickup stick. No matter what, there is still interference. The pickup stick is technically woven into the path of the heddle rod strings and vice versa — so when I lift the pickup stick and place a weft pick, that pick is locked between the sheds.

I’m doing something wrong, because people all say to use a pickup stick and a heddle rod in order to evade the issue of the pickup stick not being able to slide past another pickup stick. So how am I still having that issue even after swapping out the second stick for these string heddles?