#Backstrap weaving

[speedwagons-glorious-mane]

Can someone please tell me if it's possible to get started tablet weaving with nothing but a pack of playing cards, yarn and a pair of carabiner hooks? I am broke yet I have been bitten by the tablet weaving bug

[landofla]

I know I rarely post anything original or personal here. One of the major things I do offline is fiber arts. Spinning, Knitting, Weaving, Dyeing fiber all that kind of stuff. A few months ago a post was going around about the "lost art" of spinning. (Yeah not the kind in the health club, the kind where you get yarn when you are done) I have taken a lot of classes from a lot of different teachers. Abby is by far my favorite teacher. I think she has a handle on the material and a WAY to communicate about what needs to be done that is unbeatable. Right now she has a special on a membership that includes her whole entire backlog of online classes that goes back to the fall 2020.

Quote Abby: "MAJOR DEAL at https://www.abbysyarns.com where if you sign up for a full trimester membership you’ll get a month for free and you won’t pay again until September!!!!" Classes include all 4 of the spinning basics classes as well as intermediate and advanced topics, like fiber prep, drafting methods. plying structures, mastering long draw, mastering short draw, spinning for socks and a whole lot more.

[intolaurel]

I've woven something! Yesterday I spent almost 6 hours weaving on my backstrap rigid heddle loom, and started + finished this band. It's meant to go around a hat (will share pictures later) as a replacement of a panter-print plastic band that was on it before.

[gregorvorbarra]

hey yall wanna see my favorite textile-related souvenir from Peru?

of course you do!

this is a ruki! it’s a tool made out of alpaca bone (I was told it’s a foot bone) and used for backstrap weaving. the weavers in Patacancha use it to beat down the weft and to clear the shed when changing sheds.

the shawl in the background was handwoven by Maria, my weaving teacher in Patacancha <3

[allonsybadwolf]

So I saw a post about tablet weaving yesterday (link) and was gripped by the tablet weaving madness and had to try it immediately 😂 a craft I can try without leaving my house and spending money?? Sign me the fuck up!!

It's going great so far, EXCEPT that despite threading the cards in the correct order, I fully started weaving with them in the reverse order (14-1 instead of 1-14)

But it seems like it's working out fine anyways?? I'm getting a cool pattern so 🎉

This is super fun so far, so of course I'm eyeing inkle looms on the Woolery after doing this one (1) single time

Tablet weaving, 10/10, highly recommend

(pattern is here)

[calendae-creations]

I finished my latest batch of weaving last night, and have it up in my shop now! Two hand woven bookmarks, and one keychain, all with light blue and dark blue stripes, and a supplementary weft pattern in silvery thread with zigzags and diamond shapes. $10 each, plus shipping.

[ourcaptainisabelle]

Adventures in weaving

After nine months of procrastinating, and 6-7 hours of untangling my 19 ft 9 in long warp, I have finally started weaving. Luckilly, after only a few rows, I can already tell my simple stripes are going to be gorgeous! My plan for the next few days is to just weave, and watch videos about weaving, so hopefully I can update with pictures!

[drelmurn]

Yesssss . . . Yesssss! . . . YESSSSS!

[justafrogge]

Grateful to whatever higher power gives out motivation for letting me start practicing on a backstrap loom basically as soon as I got it

Setting up the warp came with multiple mistakes I will have to keep in mind in the future but it seems like none of them were critical enough to make weaving completely impossible

Not aiming for prettiness with this, just getting used to the multiple levels of strain this will inevitably put on my body

All the weaving drafts Ive found floating around still confuse and scare me so for now we are doing the simplest things possible (with maybe just a few embellishments, as a treat)

[humanransome-note]

Because all my hobbies are aggravating my wrist, I decided to take another crack at tablet weaving. Realized I don’t really have the space to decently set up warp threads (at least to my satisfaction)

So I folded up a cardboard box and put big nails through it to make a warp board…

And considering I’m setting up backstrap style, which is literally just a belt with a place to anchor the warp, the very cheap/low tech approach feels consistent

[louiseannbenjamin72]

I've dipped into savings for loom things

Update on the backstrap loom, I’ve been sanding and such with the dowels. These are farm fresh so to speak, and needed a good going over to bring them into yarn ready order. I’ve also been oiling, sanding and cutting a few slats in order to make the beating stick and shuttle. I’m enjoying the process. Instead of getting a loom that was made with crap materials, I’m getting one made out of  odds…

[ebearcrochet]

This looks amazing. and keeping a consistent edge takes some practice but it gets easier as you go

made a backstrap loom and am now working on bands :)

keeping width consistent is hard but i'm getting better!!

[cadere-art]

I've been having computer issues big time (corrupted system files and source image after a failed update yay!) and it's been sucking hard BUT I've managed to get myself weaving again while my husband fights my computer!

[ninalanfer]

A while back @optimistinchief wanted to see how my string heddle setup looks like. And now finally I'm playing around with some more swatches. Which means string heddles.

It's really very simplistic. And I'll try to demonstrate to the best of my ability.

One stick per shaft. Here I'm testing some straight draw twill. 4 shafts.

Here I've picked up shaft 4 (because where I live we count the shafts as beginning in the back. 1, 2, 3, 4. So the shaft closest to you will be shaft 4. I realise some of the world count them the opposite way. So felt I needed to clarify.)

Here I've pulled up shed 2. So shaft 2 and 3.

So to weave a straight draw. I pull up shed 1 (shaft 1 and 2), then shed 2 (shaft 2 and 3), then shed 3 (shaft 3 and 4), then shed 4 (shaft 1 and 4). And finally I start from the beginning again, circling through them over and over.

I learned how to pick up the string heddles from Kerstin Neumüller's book Simple Weave. But I'm sure there are other sources for it out there. It's a really ancient technique, so there ought to be.

It's not difficult. It just takes a while. But considering the alternative is to manually pick up every shed with like a pick-up stick, it's still faster than having to do that.

Hope that's helpful.

[tyrhinosaurus]

Making some progress finally on this wip that's been on the pile for a while.

It's my homespun wool, Dorset horn potentially? And then dyed with some commercial green, and black tea for the brown.

Took a little time to get back into the swing, but its going really well tbh, not making many mistakes touch wood.

[coffeeworldsasaki]

AAAAAHHHH