Weaving tools

A weaver recently asked how to prevent the bobbins from catching in her double bobbin shuttle. This problem is less about double bobbin shuttles than it is about bobbins...

So, you’ve just started weaving (or have for a while) and you love it! But, you are OVERWHELMED with where to purchase some of the most basic weaving tools and supplies. When you do a google search, you are brought to sites for every type of weaving: rigid heddle loom weaving, square loom weaving, stick weaving, and everything in between. You have just discovered that the world of weaving is much bigger than you thought! I know exactly how you feel. That was my experience when I first…

As much as I love working with bone and horn, I have enjoyed carving various hardwoods into craft tools. Below is a selection of tools used for needle binding, braiding or weaving. All have been carved from either boxwood, ironwood, ash or bamboo. The image below shows four slightly different styles of weaving shuttle. The weft thread is wound onto the shuttle to be passed through the shed in the warp threads. These styles are based on shuttle designs that have been in existence for many…

Invented by artist Lauren Puchowski, picked up by the Cooper-Hewitt

Kerstin Neumüller on Instagram: "I got some questions about the Blue horse heddles I posted yesterday, mainly about their function. These slates with holes and slits are weaving tools, in Swedish they are called “Bandgrind” and in English I call them simply “heddles”, although “Scandinavian rigid heddle for band weaving” would be more accurate. The heddles have traditionally been used to weave bands with, and I’ve been making them for 3 1/2 years now. If you want to know - How to make…

Weaving a filled tubular cord with a weaving disc. This blog accompanies two articles in the Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. https://journalwsd.org.uk/ Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, 285 Spring 2023 A Weaving Disc - an exploration of history and uses. Part 1, and 285 2023, Summer, A Weaving Disc - part 2. What is disc weaving? I have been exploring a little known weaving implement: a weaving disc. The disc seems to have originated in Indonesia but also appears in Lithuania…

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