r/tabletweaving

There are couple of "new" weaving books popping up in the various weaving threads. Beware! They appear to be scams. The 4 weaving books can be found on Amazon and othe sites that sell books, but there are HUGE red flags- the authors are unknown in the weaving world, the books appear to be AI generated, there are NO reviews, but more importantly, the ISBNs are fake/fraudulent/non existent.

I'm just starting out and getting some supplies to get me going.

There are very few weaving specific yarns available in my country, so I have been looking for alternatives.

This mercerised cotton knitting yarn is 2ply and and weight-wise converts to approximately the same as 8/2 mercerised cotton. (6,666 m/kg compared to 6,775 m/kg).

I've heard the 8/2 mercerised cotton is a great starting point for learning, but I'm unsure if I've messed up the conversion and this won't actually be suitable.

This was listed under knitting yarn, but seems to check the boxes for weaving to a comlete newbie trying to figure out how this works.

Any thoughts/advice?