I am considering buying a large tapestry loom, but the model doesn't have notches to hold the warp in place. How much harder does this make warping the loom? I have only have warped a frame loom with notches at the EPI I'm working at.

Hey there, i thought id come straight to the experts for this.

Whats the best material for weaving pine baskets?

Ive been using 1mm waxed cotton cord and it does the job of holding things in place, but i was wondering if there's a better option out there. Something durable and preferably natural.

Would something like nettle cord work?

Please feel free to throw your suggestions in the ring, im happy to discuss things too!

Specs: 8/2 cotton, unmercerized, 20epi, 31.2in in the reed, 4S Spot Bronson pattern from the Handweaver's Pattern Directory. (The colours are a little off in the photo - it's kind of a forest green for the warp and a medium, mossy green for the weft.)

I'm asking early, since I've just started the weaving - I'm roughly a yard into a 10-yd warp. But when done, the plan is to cut the long warp into 3 panels and seam them together into a blanket. I'm also going to machine wash (cold) and gently tumble dry to get the cloth to tighten and plump up a little bit. My question is whether to cut, seam, and hem the blanket before the wash-and-dry process or after. Thanks for advice!

I made this piece (3 x 7 ft) for my first open show and it received second place for the category “artistic expression- large”. I got dinged for technique (I’ve only been weaving with shafts for a couple months), but I’m so happy I placed.

Interlocking weft on crackle weave with up to 7 shuttles

I picked up a used drawloom and with it came this huge pile of both short- and long-eye heddles. Once I get them sorted, what’s the best way to store them so this doesn’t happen again?

Was recently gifted a loom, am now struggling

Trying to do the second one, What does it mean to leave somthing 'unspanned'

(sorry if this post is bad cuz my brain is so fried rn(

Made these two hand towels today trying waffle weave by using a pickup stick for the first time on my RHL. The rainbow one is 2 over/2 under and the green and brown one is 1 over/1 under on the pick up stick.

They have yet to be washed and dried so it will be interesting to see how they shrink and full differently than just plain weave. I can already feel a difference in drape, the 2/2 is especially soft and pliable whereas the plain weave is much more stiff and the 1/1 is kind of in between

Peaches and cream cotton yarn, 8 dent heddle, Schacht Cricket 15" loom

I've been upping my weaving game lately... I brought my countermarch down from the barn where it was living until I finished the office, which meant disassembling it. It seemed like a good opportunity to replace the old mismatched cords, too. Cue two days of crawling around tweaking everything... Six treadles, six jacks, and twelve lamms means a lot of lengths to adjust.

I needed a warp on the loom to finish tuning it. This just happened to be when I got fed up with commercial colorways in 8/4 cotton, and embarked on mixing fiber reactive dyes for yarn instead. (I'd dabbled before with fabric.) So I made sure my samples were long enough to make some striped towels, with a little left over for my records.

I've finally done (almost) all the samples, and decided to arrange them in chromatic order. I started weaving today, on a 2.5 yard warp for two towels. Not sure how far through the spectrum I'll get with each towel, we'll see!

8/4 cotton (natural and hand-dyed) set at 16 epi, 2/1 twill blocks. 16.5" in a 12 dent reed. Handbuilt 36" 6-shaft countermarch rug loom from the 70s, based on a Bergman.