r/weaving

Spent the last few weeks designing and printing this loom, 8 dpi heddle, and a 7.5 in weaving width.

I’ve been using some art paper for my warp separator. I had this warp all wound on only to realize my usual paper wasn’t wide enough. Ugh! I’m not good at making paper grocery bags smooth enough and I looked all around for something and gave up. I gambled and ordered this bulletin board plasticized paper (as well as some soft corrugated cardboard $$$) and some thin poster board. Wow. This Better than Paper bulletin board stuff was the winner and worked SO WELL! And it’s affordable. I cut it into four 23” x 36” sections for my RHL, and still have half the roll left. Just thought I’d share because it’s so light and smooth and easy.

Link in comments if I can get it to go through.

this one is a combination of wool and cotton yarn which is fun, but think I like wool a lot more. at this point I have 2 others that need to be wet finished so I've decided to make several and then dedicate a morning to doing all of them 💖

Shadow weave is a lot of work dressing the loom- but worth the results. QSuper fun to weave.

8 shaft loom. 12/2 cotton. 24 epi. 8 inches wide.

Did everything right during warping, all even tension etc. then released the break on the back beam accidentally and the whole thing just unwinded itself 😭

Hope this can still work out, I am quite excited to be on this journey.

Been awhile since I used the Rigid Heddle. Planning on a clasped weft table runner ( actually the kitchen island) with yarns bought in Iceland for the project.