Backstrap weaving

Weaving textiles on a backstrap loom is ancient practice in Mesoamerica (and all over the world!). The loom itself is quite simple, basically a collection of different sized and shaped sticks. It i…

The backstrap loom is an ancient technology. It is considered, along with a simple frame loom, to be one of the original looms with which humans made cloth. It is known that humans were weaving cloth in the Stone Age in the earliest agricultural villages. However, it really is not known whether or n

In this post I invite you to my learning process as I learn the basics of backstrap weaving, a technique I have been longing to learn for quite a while.

This page contains a free tutorial on how to weave a plain-weave tubular band while sewing it to the edge of cloth. If, however, you would like to weave a traditional patterned tubular band that is…

Typical indigenous backstrap loom from Hidalgo, Mexico showing a weaving in progress. Museo de Arte Popular. Mexico City

(Picture taken by Annie MacHale of some warp float bands I made for a guild presentation) The simple warp float technique is one of the easiest patterning techniques to execute on warp faced weaves…

The Weaving Melting Pot….that is what I have bubbling away here. Every time I start a new piece on my backstrap loom I am so aware of the vast array of sources from which I have drawn techniq…

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The backstrap loom is probably one of the oldest machines invented by humans. Although various versions have been used by cultures around the world for thousands of years, they are usually ...