Cardboard Loom - All Fiber Arts
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Learn to Weave using a Cardboard Loom
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Weaving Tabby | |||
| Use a knitting needle or a small stick to pick up the warp threads. In Tabby or Plain weave, every other warp thread is picked up, so the weft travels over and under each thread. Rest the knitting needle on the edge of the box to hold the raised threads in place, while you draw the weft thread through the open shed. For the next row, pick up the alternate warp threads with the knitting needle and weave the weft thread across.
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| On cardboard looms, or simple frame looms, the warp threads are hand manipulated. On larger looms with more harnesses, this task is more automated. The warp yarns are threaded through individual heddles in the harnesses. By raising a harness or shaft, this raises all the heddles that are on the shaft. For example, on a 4-shaft table or floor loom, the warp yarn is threaded through the 4 shafts or harnesses. For this simple Tabby weave, the first warp thread goes through the first heddle of the first harness. The 2nd warp thread goes through the first heddle of the second shaft. The 3rd warp thread goes through the first heddle of the 3rd shaft. The 4th warp thread goes through the first heddle of the 4th shaft.
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| In a Draft Plan, the threading would look like this:
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| Cardboard Loom Project | |||
More About Weaving: | |||
| How to weave on your Cardboard Loom
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| Other Cardboard Loom Ideas More ideas for teaching weaving in the classroom. | |||
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