Diy rigid heddle loom

Scrap Bin Rigid Heddle Loom: This year our family has made the decision not to buy anything that we can make. Along with that, we've stepped up learning to upcycle and repurpose the unused, unneeded and unwanted. My wife knits with recycled grocery bags and recently we discover…

DIY Laser Cut Rigid Heddle Loom - Part 1: Building the Loom: Welcome to The Interlace Project! Our mission is to make weaving more accessible by designing open-source weaving looms Rigid Heddle Looms are a great introduction to weaving and the skills you learn are all transferable to other types of looms. Eas…

Rigid heddles are wonderful tools for bandweaving, once you know how to use them. Watch an exclusive video featuring Spin Off’s Kate Larson to learn how to warp and weave on a rigid heddle, no loom required!

Some of you may already know what I am about to confess. Some of you may not. At any rate, here it is: I built another loom last weekend. I know what you are thinking – Isn’t one enough…

Get your tension just right when tying your warp on your rigid-heddle loom with these incredible tips from Sara Goldenberg White.

How do I get the yarn on the loom? It's not nearly as complicated as you might think. Warping a rigid-heddle loom is particularly easy and fast. Here, I demo...

Most of the time when you are weaving on a rigid heddle loom and following instructions, there will be written notes for how to weave a pattern. For example, in any of my rigid heddle classes you will see threading instructions, telling you which holes and slots to thread, including colour order wherever it’s applicable....Read More

Saori weaving is a fun and unique technique that focuses on being creative in the weft of your weaving. The technique is free-form, and lots of fun, as well as being a surprisingly quick technique to make completely unique fiber art. I discussed the technique and some history of saori weaving in an earlier article ... Read More about Saori Weaving Tutorial: Warping a Rigid Heddle Loom

Woven creations provide fun textures and patterns, allowing fiber artists to combine different fibers, weights, and colors. These creations can be made from strictly following patterns, or just mixing and matching the yarn as you see fit. Rigid heddle looms make a wonderful first loom for new weavers. They’re portable, have a small footprint and many can even fold for storage. Rigid heddles are quite affordable compared to most floor looms and are extremely versatile allowing for a lot of…

I've recently been fascinated with weaving patterned bands with the assistance of a rigid heddle to separate the pattern threads, making them easier to keep track of ... I did purchase 2 such heddles. 9-Slot Pattern Strings from Harvest Looms in Latvia and a beautiful Plum Wood Shuttle This one is from Harvest Looms in Latvia, laser cut from birch wood. It has slots for 9 pattern threads. I thought that would cover me for any pattern I wanted to try from the Weaving Patterned Bands book that…

Always wanted to weave, but don't know where to begin? Check out this free class from the Yarnworker School of Weaving. It will introduce you to the various looms available and why weaving on the rigid-heddle loom, just might be the place for you to begin your weaving journey.

Popsicle stick heddle

Although I have enjoyed strap weaving with a mini rigid heddle, until now all of my straps became much narrower than the heddle as all the warp threads were staked to a single point at each end. The concept of incorporating a beam on which to load the warp and another beam to hold the woven fabric is not new and basic horizontal looms have been in use since at least the later medieval period. One clear advantage to beam looms is that the warp threads can be kept evenly spaced out during the…

When you first learn to thread two heddles, chances are you learned the standard threading first. This threading can be organized in many different ways to create the conditions for lots of weave structures: plain weave, Hopsack, lace, twill, doubleweave, and Summer and Winter. This setup gives you the ability to manage independently, or in ... Read more

My teaching philosophy is pretty much summed up this way: If it works, then do it. If it stops working, try something else. When it comes to warping, there are so many ways to get the job done—from the super speedy direct method that uses a peg, to the little bit less speedy and versatile indirect method ... Read more

Learning to weave on a rigid heddle Loom

Simple and Complex Patterns on the rigid heddle loom

Gradient Squares Recently, I started learning how to use the rigid heddle loom through Craftsy’s class Rigid Heddle Weaving by Angela Tong. If you are looking for a beginner class, or are nee…