r/weaving • • Mar 05 '26

Finished Project Wove, dyed, waxed, and sewed a canvas backpack

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Brown and blue canvas are plain weave 16/2 linen sett at 24epi. I beat as hard as I felt my Ashford Jack Loom could handle to get about 22 ppi. Do you think I’m damaging my loom? It does creak and tilt when I’m beating hard.

Straps are made from 3/2 cotton on my inkle loom. I tried to use dyed linen at first but I kept snapping threads. Cotton never lets me down.

I had to reverse engineer this pattern from Sailrite: https://www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Waxed-Canvas-Roll-Top-Backpack-Saddle?utm_source=WB&utm_medium=RollTop_Backpack . There is also a sew along on YouTube. I don’t use leather which is why I had to weave a canvas bottom. I made a few other improvisations too. I’m very new so sewing but I’m happy with how it turned out!

r/weaving • • Sep 14 '26

Finished Project Victory at Last - The Shot Silk Finale

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Finally done with my shot silk experiment! I was disheartened when I first took it off the loom, as the cloth felt very stiff and rough. After a wash and press with an iron, it feels dreamy. The cloth changes drastically in different lights. In soft light, it looks like a dull copper, but in strong lights it’s orange with brilliant blue shadows. No idea what I’m going to do with it, but a small amount will be cut off and made into scrunchies for me and my weaving friend.

Woven at 40 epi out of second-hand filament silk in plain weave.

r/weaving • • Mar 31 '26

Finished Project Finished my handwoven sweater!

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I've sewn this sweater from fabric woven on my RHL.

10/2 Nm Wool, 2/1 Twill at 15epi

The warp was about 4.7m long and I end ended up with about 4m finished fabric. It was barely enough, but i made it work.

r/weaving • • Sep 13 '26

Finished Project Cat Track & Snail Trail: My biggest project yet

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The three panels sat for months before I gathered the motivation to stitch them together. I have an Ashford Jack loom. Over all it was very fun to weave!

Warp is 5/2 mercerized cotton in light blue sett at 14 epi
Pattern weft is six colors of 5/2 cotton loaded onto a double bobbin shuttle. I could kind of blend the colors with two bobbins going at a time.
Tabby weft is 8/2 cotton in natural.

r/weaving • • Sep 11 '26

Finished Project Last summer 50x70 cm (95cm long with fringe)

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Made with handspun yarn !

r/weaving • • 28d ago

Finished Project Finished!

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r/weaving • • 3d ago

Finished Project My first tablet weaving projects!

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I'm very new to this craft but I started weaving some simple belts that I can use in my costumes and I'm really enjoying the process, currently working on my 4th one😊

I used patterns from the "tablet weaving in theory and practice" website and a free pattern from svetlonoska_weaving on Instagram

Also experimenting with different types of yarn, my first one was made with mercerised cotton, the second two with naturally dyed wool and the one that's currently on my loom uses a silk/bamboo blend!

r/weaving • • May 20 '26

Finished Project Pinwheel towels success!

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Thanks so much for the assistance in getting the first project on my adopted loom up and running! I cut and washed the first towel as a sample, and it came to 16"x23.75", right on the dot for my desired 16x24 (though I'll lose a little to hemming). Everyone who recommended 20epi was right, it's got beautiful drape and the perfect heft for a drying towel. It's got pinprick holes between the ridges like huck lace, but it's not cheesecloth like I feared. I'm very pleased! On to the rest of the set!

8/2 unmercerized cotton, 20epi, 8-shaft pinwheel twill.

r/weaving • • Jun 30 '26

Finished Project My weaving contribution for June 🌈

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Finished a set of 5 tea towels and 1 napkin with one day to spare in pride month. I tried something new where I didn’t plan anything, just started to wind my warp and let the colors lead me. And as a little bonus I was able to use up a bunch of my stash, so now I can buy more yarn!

Details:
18 EPI, 8/2 cotton and cotton/linen blend, 350 ends, measured 20” wide at the reed and 32 inches (including fringe) long on the loom. 2 towels have a gradient weft, and 3 have a solid weft. This also functioned as a sort of color gamp for me.

r/weaving • • 24d ago

Finished Project Inkle band woven shoelace

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This was a fun little project after spending a long weekend away from my floor loom. My second time weaving on an inkle loom.

I bought a Lojan Inklette because I thought it might be great for travelling, and it is!

These are 8/2 cotton, finished with a metal aglet on the ends.

r/weaving • • Jul 19 '26

Finished Project I'm obsessed with how this turned out

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Colors are a bit washed out thanks to my phone camera. Click on the first picture to see the full scarf. The hard color change is actually how the yarn was connected to continue the strand unfortunately, not where I added more in. The last picture is ending salvages(left) compared to beginning salvages(right). I'm hoping I can find similar colors in the future because I'd love to make a longer one!

Finished dimensions are 13" x 41.5"

100% wool, 8 dent heddle

Too bad it's summer and over 100° f, otherwise I think I'd wear this every day! Lol

r/weaving • • Jun 08 '26

Finished Project Finished some dish towels this weekend!

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Pattern is Dresden by Petra's Fiber Room, made on my 8 shaft jack loom. A few errors here and there because I have a grumpy old loom, but I'm overall happy with the result!

r/weaving • • Jun 11 '26

Finished Project My new twill scarf i wove on my pin loom!

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Please enjoy this scarf that is an ABSOLUTELY REASONABLE LENGTH. I did add fringe to it, but forgot to get a picture with it before I sat down :/

This is 3 rectangular color and weave twill plaid panels i wove on a Kiss Looms loom. I'm very glad my friend let me take a photo with her wearing it because her eyes look incredible in this picture

Edit: thank you for the award!!

r/weaving • • Sep 10 '26

Finished Project New to Weaving - napkin obsessed

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I have had so much fun with the 10" cricket. The second picture is the first set i made based off of a pattern in Little Looms magazine. Tension issues galore (working with cotton) that i didnt have before on a wool mat i did.

Second time around (first picture) i got closer to even tension between the slots and holes (also tried lashing on so not sure what of the 3 changes i did helped).

.....I'm trying to decide how long i need to wait before i can justify going up in size 🤔 😂

r/weaving • • Apr 08 '26

Finished Project Finished my 2nd ever weaving project!

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Featuring my dog for scale.

Made this on a rigid heddle loom, plain weave, 10/2 cotton yarn. My own design.

Length 45”

Width 6 1/4”

In the sunlight it is SO vibrant! Not sure what it is (table runner? scarf?) but I’m really pleased with how it turned out. Just wanted to share! ☺️

r/weaving • • Feb 24 '26

Finished Project 56x78 wall hanging, different angle. Ready to be taken off .

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r/weaving • • Aug 15 '26

Finished Project Last summer - 50x70 (95with fringe)

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Handwoven tapestry made with handspun yarn.

r/weaving • • Feb 11 '26

Finished Project Heavy Wool Blanket

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This was the worst warp I had the misfortune to meet.

I thought this would be an easy project, with nice thick yarn and easy draft. I was so, so wrong. I stupidly decided to change my sett to 12 instead of ten to fit all my blocks, and the shed REFUSED to open. Every single pick was a fight.

Also, doing 45 inch wide cloth using ten shafts and thick yarn is be try heavy. But I powered through and made a 90 x 110 inch blanket.

r/weaving • • Dec 19 '25

Finished Project Rainbow blanket

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One of our craft club friends commissioned me to make a baby blanket for her relative and this is how it turned out!

I wove it using Yarnsmiths Create DK acrylic yarn, with the full width of my 32" Ashford rigid heddle loom. I used a 7.5dpi heddle, 240 ends and warped 75". Each section of colour was 5.25" in the weft and my weave was really nicely balanced with roughly 7.5ppi.

The finished blanket is 28.5" wide, 48" long and I've trimmed the tassels to 2" either end. I picked all the colours using my yarn pegs and I'm so happy with how it turned out 🌈

r/weaving • • Apr 03 '26

Finished Project Fingerwoven sash "Ceinture fléchée", 2.5 meters, couleurs du printemps 💐

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r/weaving • • Sep 05 '26

Finished Project Viking age cloak

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Just finished weaving viking age cape for a friend 🙂

I was weaving double weave double width on my Louet Jane 90cm loom 🙂

Warp - 100% merino wool
Weft - 60% virgin New Zealand wool 40% mohair

10 warps per 1cm - 1664 warp in total.

Sides decorated with tablet woven bands .

r/weaving • • Dec 13 '25

Finished Project I did ALL of it by hand!!

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I got interested in spinning yarn earlier this year. Pretty quickly into the journey I decided I wanted to use my handspun to make a tapestry. So I spun all this yarn on spindles, made a pvc pipe adjustable tension loom, and wove this picture. Then I felted on some details. The weaving is all wonky and pulled in at the top, and there are a million mistakes, but I love this sooooo much. Working on this tapestry got me sucked into r/weaving, and then I ended up getting an 8 shaft converted table to floor loom a few months ago. I’m obsessed, and very happy.

r/weaving • • Jul 13 '26

Finished Project Ceinture fléchée l’Acadienne, finally finished!! 🩵💙💖💜

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r/weaving • • Jul 22 '26

Finished Project The river where I live

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I made this piece (3 x 7 ft) for my first open show and it received second place for the category “artistic expression- large”. I got dinged for technique (I’ve only been weaving with shafts for a couple months), but I’m so happy I placed.

Interlocking weft on crackle weave with up to 7 shuttles

r/weaving • • Aug 28 '26

Finished Project Update: I went with wall!

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The frame job isn't quite right but it's what I had on hand! And I'm proud of myself... I've been wanting to push myself into trying to using weaving to create studio art pieces. So... This is "Slash and Burn". Deflected doubleweave using a combination of 8/2 unmercerized cotton, 10/2 pearle cotton, and linen. Painted warp.

Thanks for the input! Wet finishing really was the decider... It turned out more golden than I would wear so to the wall it went.