Question about hemming

[u/huffledawg]

Partway through working on this set of placemats I realized I had not done any hemstitching, so I decided to embrace the lack of hemstitch on all of them and figure things out later. Now that they're off the loom, washed, and I'm finishing things, what would be the best way to finish the ends?

My first thought was to just cut off all the fringe and do a folded hem to secure with sewing, but do really like the look of the fringe. Would adding a line of sewing on the edge where I did a few picks of tabby, with a short stitch length, be enough to secure it? Or should I give up on the fringe and fold it under for security?

[u/No_Sprinkles9459]

Now that it is off the loom, a needle based hemstitch may be difficult.i leave that judgement to more experienced weavers. But you could just use a sewing machine to run along the fringe, in a zigzag or hemstitch.

[u/AutomaticAstigmatic → u/No_Sprinkles9459]

It's doable; put a few heavy books on the body of the work and use your off hand to lightly tension groups of warp threads as you hemstitch around them.