Band weaving patterns

6-20-22 - I still love the pattern, it is so beautiful! But I wasn’t able to fix the mess I made, without making more of a mess. It had worn me out. So I cut it off the loom, I would have only bee...

Most often, I seem to work in 2" widths, creating the guitar straps which are the main product that I sell. Consequently, many of the patte...

We have recently been sent the following, lovely post, from long-term Woodlorean Bosco Li. Bosco has successfully tried his hand at making a pair of beautiful Sami shoe bands, after seeing them on …

Narrow patterns are fun to weave. In the last post, I provided 24 charts for five pattern ends in Baltic-style pick-up. In this post, I’ll show you three examples of how narrow patterns might…

If I want to try out a band pattern or just weave something quickly I usually set up the warp and thread it onto my heddle at the same time. This isn’t the most meticulous way to set up a small weave, but I find it to be the fastest and for small weaves woven on my kind of heddles I find it to work

Band Weaving Equipment Here is a new outlet for the Sunna heddle in the UK. Handweavers Studio now sell the Stoorstalka heddles and shuttles. https://www.handweavers.co.uk/ They sell rigid heddles, inkle looms and yarn in very useful small amounts.Their shop is an Aladdin's cave. Well worth browsing the online shop or better still visit their beautiful shop in London. Stoorstålka, Sweden and Online Stoorstålka sell rigid heddles and shuttles for weaving narrow bands. They ship items…

Original... Topside and Reverse (This could be Estonian or German!) I saw this pattern on line somewhere and I just had to make it. I had to carve a wider band loom to work it because the whole pattern uses 92 Threads, 46 holes and 46 slots. After I made my loom, I found I still made it too narrow. My new loom uses up to 80 Threads, so I had to drop the 6 thread borders. I like the colors. On the original you can see the 3 colors (plus white), red, turquoise and blue. It is not so hard as it…

Hi there! My name is Emilia, and I am a passionate tablet weaver and heritage educator. About seven years ago, I took a leap of faith—I left my academic job and decided to make my living from weaving

I am running an online workshop for the Braid Society on Braids & Bands group https://groups.io/g/braidsandbands This blog is part of the workshop for week one. The Woolery in the USA, has published a post about the workshop https://woolery.com/blog/ If you live in the USA, their online shop is open for equipment etc. I love band weaving. The back strap is such a practical way to weave and very portable. I also love weaving equipment, from the simple to the more highly decorated. I have…