Weaving - All Fiber Arts
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| Miscellaneous information,tips and techniques about weaving, warps, looms and textiles. | MEINSHELF |
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| Suggest a Site Suggest a site for this category. Although I cannot guarantee placement, all sites are individually reviewed for inclusion. |
| E-Bay Watch Look for weaving looms at E-Bay. |
You Tube - Weaving |
| Baby Blankets Weaving patterns and ideas for handwoven baby blankets. |
| Computers & Looms Did you know that that computers and looms are related? |
Craft Shows |
| DoubleWeave Pickup Tantrika shows how she does double weave pickup. |
| Finishing Yardage When your yardage comes off the loom, the process is not yet complete. |
Fulled Cloth |
| Guild Pillow Project Take some random warp yarns and a creative guild and you have a unique handwoven pillow. |
| The Guild of Canadian Weavers The Guild of Canadian Weavers has done much to promote hand weaving in Canada. |
How-To Index |
How to Fix a Threading Mistake |
Improve Your Edges |
| Ladder HemStitch Instructions for how to make a ladder hem stitch finish on your handwoven items. |
| Lace Weaving Workshop Sandra's guild held a workshop on weaving lace.' |
| Looms Looms have been used for centuries to create the cloth that we wear. |
| Lord of the Rings Weavers played an important part in the making of the costumes for this movie. |
McMorran Balance |
| Product Labeling Some things you need to know when labeling your handwovens for sale. |
| Show and Tell Gallery A gallery of woven works from our Forum members. |
| Table of Setts |
10 Steps of Warping |
| Finnish Lace Block Throw A pattern for a throw woven in organic Foxfibre cotton. |
| Finnish Textiles Poppana, doubleweave pickup, Takana, Finnweave, Raanu, Rya. |
| The Horse Song A Navajo rug woven by Roy Kady. |
| V-Neck Shaping I tried to shape a V-neck on the loom, based on a sample I found at the British Museum. Here's how.' |
| Weaving Rag Rugs Marianne shows her rag rug woven in doubleweave. |
| Wool Roving Rug |
| Weaving: Where to Begin The Net is a great place to begin to learn about weaving. |
Weaving: Where to Begin, Part 2 |
Podcasts |
| Teaching Others A podcast on Teaching others to Weave and an Interview with Judith MacKenzie |
| Ashenhurst's Formula |
| Clothes Moths Moths lay 40 - 50 eggs each and moth larvae can live up to 2.5 years. The University of California has some excellent advice on solving a moth problem. |
| Collectors Guide to the Art of New Mexico Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, a former museum curator, gives tips on collecting, displaying and cleaning textiles. |
| Countermarche and Counterbalance Loom Tie-ups Joanne Hall provides instructions on tying your countermarche or counterbalance loom. |
| Conversion Tool From FiberLinks, an on-line tool for converting ounces to grams. |
| Counterbalance, Jack, Countermarche Leclerc gives some technical info comparing counterbalance, countermarche and jack loom systems. |
| History and Definitions List Definitions of some Persian carpet weaving terms, by a collector of oriental rugs. |
| FAQ's about Spinning Wheels Christine Jordan has compiled helpful info about spinning wheels, including reviews of several types of wheels. |
| Fiber Equipment Barterpage Tips A collection of great tips on spinning, weaving, making niddy-noddys and more good idea. |
| Halfway Tree Loom Construction Halfway Tree has lots of information on building your own floor or table loom with references to books and building plans. |
| How to Build a Frame Loom Easy to follow diagrams for building your own simple frame loom. |
| Lego Loom You can make anything with Lego! (the site is a bit slow to load - but worth the wait) |
| Loom-Shaped Clothing Clothing can be designed directly on the loom. The shapes are woven and then assembled into a finished garment. |
| Navajo Rug Care Useful advice on caring for Navajo and other rugs. |
| Notes on Sectional Warping Laura Fry explains the hows and whys of sectional warping. |
| Right From the Start Marcy Petrini provides some handy tables on project sizes, take-up and shrinkage and warp calculations. |
| Sectional Warping - J-comp Sectional warping of the Jcomp loom is demonstrated with photos. |
| Sett Chart Treenway has a reference chart of recommended setts for silk and other great information about weaving with silk yarns. |
| Spinning with a Top- Whorl Drop Spindle Carol Cassidy-Fayer describes in excellent detail spinning with a drop spindle and warns of possible habit-forming and obsessive behaviours such as hoarding fibre. |
| R & M Lang R & M Lang have handmade fringe twisters in a wide selection of woods and describe how to use them. |
| Sectional Warping with Lease Strings Tom Vogl describes Allen Fannin's method of keeping a sectional warp in order. |
| Taquete Lillian Whipple shows how she uses taquete to weave small motifs for note cards. |
| Textile Dictionary Not sure what the word for hemp is in Italian? Check this on-line dictionary for English, German, French and Italian translations. |
| Warping and Threading Techniques Joy Williams explains Peggy Osterkamp's warping method. |
| Washing Fleece Tips on how to wash fleece and mohair to get the grease out. |
| Weavers Friend Janet Meany has an excellent resource library of manuals for historic looms. |
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