1/29/2024 0 Comments Backstrap loom wiki![]() ![]() Sadly site on 75 things to do with braids no longer (2018) exists.īook : Inkle Weaving by Helene Bress (2018 – oop) Yarn heddles (lightest colour in the photo) hold alternate warp threads in a fixed position, and the other warp threads are moved above or below them by hand.Įxcellent for making firm braid, and no shortage of things to do with it : Here’s a good video showing how to use this sort of loom. Inkle looms make 2 or 4 inch (5 or 10 cm) width strips, so they’re good for making flat braid with a firm weave. On an Inkle loom, the warps are wound round a frame, which sets the length of warp. But I’m just going to talk about looms that are not attached to the weaver ! If you’d like to try one of these, here’s an excellent source on making and using a backstrap loom.Įxcellent examples of the complex patterns you can make when you control individual heddles, slow but effective. And ‘The Book of Looms’, which is about weaving traditions around the World. There are DVDs on ethnic weaving methods, general surveys and individual studies. There are many varieties of this sort of loom, thought up by different cultures. This is the next big step in weaving technology. – tie one end round your waist and the other round a tree. – tie one end round your waist and the other round your toes. Those looms set up the warp threads on a frame, which limits the size of the area you can weave. When you have a separate heddle on each warp strand and use them individually, things can get quite complex and ingenious ! Then when all the heddles are made, she ties them together into 3 groups, for the 3 different lines of the weaving pattern. In this video the weaver uses sticks to pick up the warps she wants to use. Then you can lift up the warp threads individually or in groups, whichever you like. These diagrams come from an excellent article with all the details.Īnother way of working is to have yarn heddles on all the warp yarns (no shed stick). Then lay the shed stick flat, and use the heddle stick to pull up the other warp threads, so you can pass the weft thread under them in the other direction. To weave, turn the shed stick on edge to make the shed, and pass the shuttle through. Loop the string heddles round a ‘heddle stick’, also called a ‘harness’. Tie one of these leash or ‘heddle’ strands round each of the warp threads not lifted by the shed stick. Well, before starting the weaving, lay the shed stick flat.Ĭut lengths of yarn, about 10 inch/ 25 cm. Turn it on it’s edge, and you have made a ‘shed’ gap which you can pass a shuttle of weft yarn through.Īh, but how to get back the other way, when you need the other warps raised to make the ‘shed’ the other way round. Thread this over and under the warp threads. Set up your frame loom with warp threads.Ĭut a ‘shed stick’ from cardboard, longer than the width of the warp threads, and 1 to 1-1/2 inches (3 – 4 cm) wide. Shed stick, yarn heddle, heddle stick/ harness. You can find a huge amount of information and advice on-line, and people who supply all sorts of gizmos and yarns. I’ve picked out a few videos and books on these simple looms. Better in the sense of quicker to make cloth, but it may be more difficult to make complex patterns. For “better“ ways of speeding up see the final paragraph. But it’s still a relatively slow process. Again it’s possible to use simple methods to make complex patterns. This post is about the simplest methods of holding warp threads. That’s done by winding the weft yarn onto a shuttle. Then you need a way of swopping the warp threads round, so that the ones which were up are now down, and vice versa.Īnd you need a way of supporting the weft yarn so it’s easy to ‘throw’ it through the shed. The devices holding the warp threads are called ‘heddles’ (the drawing shows a ‘rigid heddle’, there are other types). (So a weaving shed is not necessarily the building the loom is in.) This triangle shaped gap bewteen the warps is called the ‘shed’. Then you can pass the weft through the gap between them. To make this simple weave, you need a way to hold alternate warp threads up, so there’s a gap between them and the others. This is ‘plain’ weave, often called ‘tabby’. Next step – big advance in technology – devise a way of holding the warp threads so the weft thread can go all the way across in one pass. Explains why tapestries and tufted rugs take a long time to make and are very expensive. ![]() But it’s very slow as each over and under is done by hand. The advantage of doing each under and over weaving move separately is you have complete freedom about the texture and colour of patterns you make. ![]()
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