Warping a loom

Saori weaving is a fun and unique technique that focuses on being creative in the weft of your weaving. The technique is free-form, and lots of fun, as well as being a surprisingly quick technique to make completely unique fiber art. I discussed the technique and some history of saori weaving in an earlier article ... Read More about Saori Weaving Tutorial: Warping a Rigid Heddle Loom

Direct warping a floor loom. Yes, that sounds crazy, but necessity is the mother of invention. Here are my two main issues; no warping board and a huge 5 dent reed. After warping my newly acquired floor loom twice, taking the warp chains to the reed, then sleying the reed then threading the heddles, I thought there must be an easier way. Then I thought I could double my epi to 10 by sleying two threads per slot. Why not combine both steps at once? I pulled out my cricket loom and put the 25"…

Learn how to direct warp on your table loom with this easy tutorial. It used a technic similar to direct warping on rigid heddle loom.

Whether you weave on a multishaft loom or a rigid-heddle loom, you need to have some way of fastening your warp to the cloth beam.

How do I get the yarn on the loom? It's not nearly as complicated as you might think. Warping a rigid-heddle loom is particularly easy and fast. Here, I demo...

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Kate Koconis on Instagram: "So I’ve made a warp, Now What? Part 1: A warp on the move. The first thing that needs to happen after a warp* is made is get it from the warping board to the loom. You really just pick it up and move it. I don’t chain my warps ever, I just risk it. . I’ve prepped the warp by tying the criss crosses at both ends. And on one end, separating and tying off the individual inches (to be utilized when warp meets loom). Then I just slide it off the warping board, holding…

Warping backwards happens. I once merrily warped a loom backwards while doing a demonstration for my colleagues. We often discover this error when we are getting ready to wind onto the beam and realize we are heading towards the wrong one. Sometimes, if it just isn’t your day, you may also discover that your warp ... Read more

This video shows 3 ways to warp a frame loom (with notches). Single warping and double warping, two ways.In this video I have used :Cotton warp thread. (8/8c...