r/weaving

I hope my sketch makes sense so y'all can imagine my problem.

So I've tried googling it, I've checked my little looms book by syne Mitchell and I can't seem to get even tension across the warp beam when I warp. I start at one end and pass the thread through the slot, hook it on the peg, and go essentially left to right if you face the front of the loom as I've read in my books. But when I wind the warp onto the bar I've found I need to use weights eventually to create the proper tension on the edges. It tells me I'm doing something wrong, the edges are too loose and the center is consistent. I've tried creating more tension on my edges, but I find that the center of the warp is eventually tighter than the edges. I had to cut a warp I was working on recently and found the threads on the end I started were longer compared to the center, which tells me that the tension is slipping as I wrap the threads across the beam.

This current project I started at the center and it seems to be working, but I worry I'm using the wrong technique since I'm having to tie each individual warp to the beam, passing the loop through the slot, hooking it onto the peg, then pulling the warp thread tight before tying off the other end. Its painstaking, but I hand spun the thread and I can't bear to discard it.

Does anyone have advice about this? I wish I could take a class through the guild I am in, but the class dates are inconvenient as they fall on weekdays during work hours.

If anyone has links to good videos it'd be helpful. The recommendations from googling it thinks I'm asking at the point where you wind the warp onto the rail, when I believe the problem is tension when pulling the looped warp thread through the slot and placing it onto the peg.

Thanks so much for the assistance in getting the first project on my adopted loom up and running! I cut and washed the first towel as a sample, and it came to 16"x23.75", right on the dot for my desired 16x24 (though I'll lose a little to hemming). Everyone who recommended 20epi was right, it's got beautiful drape and the perfect heft for a drying towel. It's got pinprick holes between the ridges like huck lace, but it's not cheesecloth like I feared. I'm very pleased! On to the rest of the set!

8/2 unmercerized cotton, 20epi, 8-shaft pinwheel twill.

As a fresh weaver, I jump at every opportunity to make some cloth to learn. So this is a cotton summer blanket for a toddler, to use in a stroller.
The warp is made of a colourful blueish yarn (pic2), the weft stripes are blue, same as warp, mint and burgundy, and I didn't use the second colorful yarn in the end.
It looks a bit like a kitchen towel to me but at the same time really baby-ish so I hope they'll like it.
I really like the colour changing yarns, it makes it easier for me to focus on proper work, not having to count and panic because of a fckd up pattern.
Also I'm thinking about making actual kitchen towels now.
(Ashford Rigid Heddle 24", 7.5dpi heddle, all cotton yarns)

One week ago I asked whether a rigid heddle loom was right for me. I got the sampleit and I am absolutely in love. It's challenging enough to keep me interested but not so hard that it's overwhelming. I had so much fun throwing on some cheap yarn and just playing around with it (1st pic) It taught me so much already.

Currently working on the color and weave sample from Jane Patrick 's book. Got two extra heddles (10 and 12,5) and some pick up sticks.

I'm already thinking about getting a bigger loom but I'm fighting that thought because I always get ahead of myself (adhd) which is how I ended up with the 12 shaft loom collecting dust in the first place. I might return to that loom later and then decide what type of weaving I prefer and then eventually get a wider loom. Or at least that is what a sane person would do so I'm going to try my best lol.

Thank you all for recommending the sampleit. Sofa weaving is the best 🖤

Woven Together - Hand spun and commercially prepared churro fiber, hand dyed and commercially dyed churro fiber. 8 epi. 36"x24.5".

I was lent a loom a while back that had a couple of teeth that were close to breaking off (have since broken) and now a couple more are breaking off. I’m wondering if anyone knows where you can find a replacement for this strip of teeth. I’m not well versed in weaving, just dipping my toes into, so I don’t really know where to start looking.

Hello Warped Weavers! I could use some competent help. I've done a fair amount of Inkle weaving, but only a few tablet weaving. I'm just figuring out how it actually works, but at this point it seems like sorcery to me. I was struggling getting the pattern to work, but finally got that sorted. Wohoo!
But now the right side of the band the patterns look pixelated. I want it smooth like the bottom. I tried flipping all my cards around so it reversed the S and Zs, but that looked awful so I flipped them back.
Why is the underside smooth but the top pixelated? Can I fix it? Is there a different way to rotate the cards so the bottom achieves the pattern and is smooth?
I hope I'm making sense. Thank you for your help.

So i got the tiny thing assembled and have done a bit of weaving on. Used all the included cord and will probably use some yarn i have to expand on it.

I make cinches. Not terriblly pretty but functional. Earlier I put together two new cinches for one of my mules, the Cocoa Bean. A packers cinch and an English girth. I started putting together a western cinch but got sidetracked. I’ll get the western finished later this week. There’s something satisfying about building tack specifically for a critter instead of trying to find store bought that is close enough. Cocoa is the reason I started making cinches. The sizes that fit her aren’t found in catalogs. The rest of the mules get cinches that match their tack.

Expecting our first child in a week, and I managed to complete a handmade item before she arrived!

I designed it to look like one of our native painted turtles, and it's woven with hand dyed yarn from our neighborhood yarn store (they did the dying, not me!).

The gist of the pattern is from "Swatch Critters from the Pin Loom" that I'd checked out from the neighborhood library.

Does anyone have a resource for somewhere that explains how to do countermarch tie ups like I'm five years old?

I'm so lucky and I was given an awesome loom for free this year: the Harrisville rug loom designed by Peter Collingwood, the 45 inch one. Problem is, the only other loom that I've ever used was a direct tie up, so I'm completely flummoxed by the countermarch action on this new one. I looked up all the resources I could find, and I managed to weave some krokbragd on it somehow, but I want to really understand the tie ups better by my next project. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

(Pic of my krokbragd sampler for fun!)

I’ve had a ton of fun monkeying around on DIY pin looms, tiny looms, frame looms. So when I discovered a steal-of-a-deal RH loom at an estate sale a few weeks ago I took a leap and purchased it. Thanks to the public library and YouTube, I’ve had a blast trying to figure out how to use it.

This project is a total freestyle. It came out a bit shorter than I would hope for a scarf, but still functional and very cute. I’ve learned a lot and had a ton of fun along the way. Here’s to the next project!