Hello! I was unpacking some boxes laying around and found a huge cone of yarn from when I did a project reconstructing ancient Egyptian linens. The store & listing is defunct & I can't remember any of the math I'd done with it, I also no longer have the rigid heddle loom I was borrowing. Is there any project this would be good for considering I only have diy cardboard & frame looms right now? I'm out of practice enough I don't remember how a lot of matching materials to appropriate projects works!

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(2 ply version)

I’ve had this loom for a few years and have been meaning to buy Howard’s Feed N Wax. Finally got some today and holy cow 😅

I am a new weaver here. I am weaving 3/2 cotton towels and 3/4 of the way through my warp and the tension on the right side is loose compared to left. I think coming off my back apron rod. Is there anything at this point I can do to correct this?

Sally Eyring was a Boston area fiber artist who made some AMAZING 3d art on her looms. Sadly she passed away last year and her sweet husband is trying to sell all her weaving supplies. There are table looms, floor looms, books, yarn, reeds, everything. It’s all super discounted too. All yarn (including fine silk) is $5 per POUND. I just bought three reeds priced at a dollar an inch!

He posted all his info on the Boston weavers guild website so I’ll pass it along: https://www.weaversguildofboston.org/community

If you can’t make it this weekend, I believe he is open to people arraging a time to stop by.

I am not a weaver myself currently and I know if anyone were to recreate it it would require a lot of skill, however I’m curious if weaving could accomplish something like this.

FYI it is a concept design for a shawl worn by a character in the Avatar films.

My dad and I recently took up weaving and were looking for shops in NC to handle different tools and buy supplies. Obviously there's a plethora of shops we can access online, but we're hoping to make a little road trip out of it and maybe visit a couple places. Additionally, it is nice to shop local when and where you can. We're in the Raleigh area, and I've found a couple places out in Asheville and Boone, so if anyone has any recs a bit closer (within maybe 2-3 hours, preferably) I'd appreciate it. I wouldn't mind touring a weaving/textile museum either. Thank you in advance!

I'm somewhat flummoxed by these drafts - is anyone able to point out what I'm missing? How are you supposed to achieve repeated picks when there's no indication of using tabby?

This will become a pair of capris. Part of a handwoven outfit I'm making for my 40th HS reunión this summer. Warp is 16/2 cotlin with nylon ribbon yarn. Weft is 16/2 cotlin. Sett 25 epi.

Eye-dazzlers in the Germantown yarn tradition and perhaps some more "rehabilitation" of the Whirling Log origin symbol.

A Millennial Weaver Carries a Centuries-Old Craft Forward (NYT)

I’ve been seeing this and I don’t know what it’s called please help.

I know of thread collective and I tend to buy my equipment there but a lot of their weaving yarns are too fine for the reed I have or too luxury/expensive for someone who is still experimenting with their loom. I will eventually invest in another reed but I have a louet and their reeds are expensive!

In particular I’m looking for interesting yarns that are protein fibre based (wool, silk, alpaca etc.) and I’m also happy if they have a component of bast fibres other than cotton (flax, hemp, bamboo etc.). Sorry I really don’t like weaving with and using cotton for some reason - I just don’t like how it turns out for me.

I have used morris and sons ‘empire’ line of yarn before too but I find they’re tricky to tension cause of how extra springy they are. Same goes for a lot of the yarns they carry cause they’re knitting/crochet focused.

I currently have in an order with world of wool in the uk for some of their wool and alpaca blend yarns but that gets expensive due to the shipping costs and I would like to support local also.

At the moment I’m debating whether it’s worth just spinning up everything I want to weave with to get exactly what I want but that really limits how fast I can make things. I could get bulk white yarn and dye it but I’m rubbish at dying skeins. They end up all muddy or too unsaturated for what I want.

I bought thirteen skeins of yarn based on this project.

https://woolery.com/our-blog?p=a-truly-uneek-scarf

Instead of a scarf, though, I want to try and make a couch blanket on my floor loom.

Is there a calculator out there that can do some math on how much yarn I have available and how big my finished project will be?

Or am I going to have to…eep…sample?

Hello! I’m looking to learn more about the history of weaving and the different types of weaves from around the world. Also looking for a book on history of looms/loom technology.

Thanks!

I'm interested in building a backstrap loom, but I can't figure out how to beat the shed. I was thinking about ordering a reed and passing my warp through it, but it seems like it'll hang down and prevent lifting the sheds (my plan was to use string heddles).

I found a description that included a "shed rod", which seems to go in behind the heddles. That seems like it would wear the string used for the heddles pretty badly - does that just mean I should be sure to use very sturdy string for the heddles? Or is there some trick I'm missing?

Alas, still a little off centre; to be fixed tomorrow.

Good morning (or whatever your local time is)! Last week I found a Leclerc Artisat in reasonably good shape for a price I couldn't resist, and brought it home. It needs a few new parts (almost all the cord is old and brittle, and the brake circle has some ugly surface rust), but is basically functional. Pulling the cords makes the shafts go up and down, the brake works, and a little work with fine steel wool and a brass brush got me a rust-free reed.

Here it is after a first pass with a clean rag to get the worst of the dust off.

On to the first question: It arrived with a sectional warp beam, and an apron on the front. I know that I'm not going to do sectional warping any time soon: should I remove the sectional warping add-on parts and replace them with an apron or warping rod, or is it practical to just leave them in place and not use them?

Is it overshot? Pick up? Inlay? I can't quite figure it out..does it have long floats on the back? Thanks!

Hi! I'm looking into getting a rigid heddle loom, but something I am unsure on is if it's possible to weave for example converted cross stitch patterns on one, or do I need a differerent loom for that (of yes what kind of loom)?

Thanks in advance!