Nearly bloody killed me

My roommate snapped this photo of me next to my loom. These will be curtains someday soon! Im currently taking my sweet time threading the heddles.

Project info: 24 epi with 10/2 mercerized cotton in white and orange. Structure will be 5-end huck lace. 46.5” wide in reed. I have 1” spacers on my sectional beam but I crammed 40 ends in each section and skipped some sections to save myself complicated yarn calculations. Each spool had 700 yards on it and the warp wound on the beam is 23.5 yards. This left extra yardage on each spool which will then be used as weft.

Sample posted in comments.

I purchased some very inexpensive filament silk to try this out. Shot silk is made from two complimentary colors of silk woven as plain weave. Higher EPI helps the iridescence.

I’ve never worked with filament silk before, but it’s horrible stuff. Mine is full of slubs, which I’ve just about given up picking out. It wants to break, or felt, or split almost every pick. I should have made a smaller sample.

Excited yarn goblin noises..... That is all.

Weaving a MacInnes tartan scarf for a friend! The pattern is from the official Scottish tartan government registry, and I’m weaving it in 2/2 twill (as is traditional). It’s made from 100% merino wool that I hand-dyed with Jacquard acid dyes.

I love making weaving timelapses, but one repeat of this pattern is 260 picks (over a foot of weaving for this sett), which was definitely not going to fit between my front beam and the reed, lol. So instead of getting the whole repeat into the frame (like I usually do) I recorded the progression of the weave.

This timelapse took roughly an hour to film, partly because I’m pretty particular about how I do my weft changes. I split the yarn about an inch from the selvedge. In this case it was 4 ply yarn and I split it into 2 ply bundles and trimmed one of them. I then wrap the remaining 2 ply bundle around the floating selvedge and trim it about an inch in. So essentially 2 ply + 2 ply = 4 ply for the last inch. It may be time consuming but I find it looks very nice!

The song is Dh’èirich Mi Moch Madainn Cheitein by Kathleen MacInnes. It’s a traditional Scottish waulking song (songs traditionally sung by women while fulling/waulking tartan or tweed cloth).

Painted 8/2 cotton warp + deflected doubleweave, using a variety of wefts: 10/2 mercerized, 8/2 unmercerized, 8/2 unmercerized cotton slub, and linen. Approximately 24 epi and ppi.

Still needs to be wet finished. Now I'm struggling to decide whether to turn this into a piece of wall art or an infinity scarf! I welcome opinions!

I’ve been lurking and reading beginner posts for a bit because I wanted to try weaving but was afraid of committing $$$ to something I might not stick to.

Then I saw a fellow beginner’s post (a year old) and someone mentioned a cardboard loom and linked out to The Weaving Loom’s article on making one.

That was what I needed.

I realize my warp is heavier than necessary (I only have one weight of cotton yarn and it’s knitpicks Dishie). But I feel like this isn’t terrible?

Oh my GOD! This weaving business is CRAZY! The learning curve is so incredibly steep it’s not even funny! I feel like I had to learn a whole new language to even attempt. I still really have no idea what I’m doing, and just wanted to learn by doing. Only messed up threading my heddles once! And I really don’t care enough to fix it right now 😂 I feel like I picked something NOT easy to start on at all. This is 8/2 cotton at 18epi in a 6 dent reed. I thought a tea towel would be easy enough but holy crap 18 epi at 18” wide is a CRAP TON of tiny strings 😭😭😭 I learned a lot doing this but now have so many other questions 😂 any tips and tricks you have for me would be greatly appreciated!

Having a ton of fun weaving with thrums. Thrums (mostly 8/2ish) were donated from some kind folks at Ravelry, and I spent a good month tying them all end to end and winding into balls.

Then I made a warp alternating 4 strands thrum with 4 strands white, set at 20 EPI on my little 4 shaft table loom and started weaving some houndstooth!

The rainbow header was done with some thrums I set aside and tied together in color groups instead of randomly. I think that piece will make up part of a tote bag. Now I'm running out the warp with some stripes, I love the color combinations that randomly pop up and change!

Having a ton of fun with this and want to do more, hoping I can find more folks with unwanted thrums >:)

After spending weeks in the mountains of Yemen, I finally managed to hand-process this tiny micro-batch of wild Calotropis silk.

​Most commercial milkweed fibers I’ve seen are clumped and full of seed residue, so I challenged myself to see how clean I could get them by hand. It’s incredibly airy, light, and the silver sheen is unlike anything I’ve worked with before.

​Sharing this here because I know you guys appreciate the effort that goes into rare fibers. Any advice on the best way to blend this with wool? I’m still experimenting with the best ratios.

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a work-in-progress look at my latest portrait tapestry. I am weaving this on my traditional hand loom, using a combination of premium wool and silk yarn to capture the facial details and smooth color transitions. Portrait weaving requires a lot of patience, but I'm really enjoying seeing the features slowly come together pick by pick. I still have a long way to go, but I'd love to hear your thoughts or any feedback on the technique so far!

“A 200‑year‑old loom, a modern pair of hands, and a living tradition.”

From rescuing and restoring the old looms to working order, to weaving a variety of textiles from rugs to fine linen cloth, my mission is to share the heritage and knowledge, passing it on to the next generation. Each loom tells a story, of a weaver I will never meet, a loom maker I can only speculate about and a time in history I will never experience. This is legacy. This is heritage.

Here my daughter, weaving her first project, is working on a cotton dish towel. While the loom appears to show replacement parts, it is indeed all original. The light coming through the windows creates that effect.

The loom pictured came to me from New Hampshire - rescued from a salvage lot by a friend who recognized the danger of it being destroyed if not claimed.

Though the weaving center has 10 barn looms for student use, this one is unique because it has a warp beam that is inserted into the rear posts, as opposed to resting on supports extending from the rear posts. This feature is thought to be added for looms expected to operated under high tension, such as linen weaving.

Had no idea how fast this would work up! Was gifted a beautiful "heirloom" inkle loom and couldn't wait to start. Of course, I'm almost done and one of the pegs on my loom pops off so it currently being repaired 🤣 absolutely addicted!

Mixed warp of 3/2 cotton and 8/4 rug warp sett at 30epi for some rep weave rugs.

I did my first project with white crochet cotton, a simple weave which was boring by row 20, so I decided to make my second project more interesting. Then, while I was struggling to commit to my next weaving project (yarn is expensive y'all!) I needed a box to store my cross stitch threads for my WIP (there are 90 colors, my box only stores 60 bobbins) and I ordered one which arrived with 100 bobbins of really poor thread. I was expecting an empty box, and so I figured I'd use the free threads to make a lovely blue... Thing. Filled out my warp board - I believe it's a 4 yard max - and set up the loom.

Then I saw a pattern in my "learn to weave" book which looked fun. So I dug out some white wool (selected because I hate it and want it gone, and it's kinky. My actual project I'm struggling to commit to is going to use kinky wool, and I figured this would work as practice) and got going.

I did not read the vast majority of the book. So I didn't know what overshot was. Even if I had, I'm not sure I'd have clocked what the pattern instructions meant. Fortunately my MIL is visiting and told me what I was doing wrong. I only have one shuttle, so I hastily cut another out of cardboard, and pulled the pink linen that is earmarked as warp for my "actual project I'm struggling to commit to" to do the tabby rows.

Why yes, I am a chaos gremlin, thanks for noticing.

Anyway, the image attached shows three hours of work and while I'm sure as hell not bored, I'm beginning to think I may have bitten off more than I can chew. Also, it's definitely not blue.

Please tell me it's too late to give up now and I'll get better as I go! Also tell me it's a really lovely pattern, and since it's a learning/ waste project, it'll be an absolute bonus to have anything at the end of it. I keep telling myself, but I don't really believe me because I clearly don't know what I'm talking about 😅

This is Chico, my apprentice. Working on cotolin placemats!!

Just toying around. Warps are 20/2 rayon, weft 5 ends 8/2 rayon. 13 shafts including the wires for the fringes

I basically made this whole thing out of wooden dowels from the craft store, and the sword is just a big ruler lol

the pattern is the M's and W's twill, and you can see, there's a section where I lost track of the pattern.

I have some tension issues, so I added extra cotton twine selvedge that seems to work pretty well

VERY excited with how it’s coming out so far. Truly had no idea what I was doing and just winging it. There’s one spot in the middle where I put double the threads in one dent of the reed but I think it will come out in the wash. And there’s ONE spot where I threaded 12334 instead of 1234 I don’t really know how to fix it and don’t know if it’s noticeable enough to fix at this point!

I bought this antique German loom off fb marketplace after taking only one weaving class and falling in love with it. I couldn’t quite find a video for this specific loom, so I did my best to rig it up like we did in class with a rigid heddle loom. Four false starts later and I had something similar enough to work with! And then of course I found the right video that showed me exactly how to weave on a frame loom and proved that I was doing it all wrong haha. I’m just trying to practice the movements, not at all worried about how it’s going to turn out bc this will be for my cat lol. I’ll try it the correct way when I either finish this or mess it up enough to say I’m done. Thank you all for the inspiration, I love this sub!

Bonus pic at the end of my beautiful CC, who I’m making this for

Just wanted to share my second project since converting the lojan rigid heddle to a 4 shaft floor loom (yay bday present!)

This is 8/4 cotton for both warp and weft, threaded in a m &w rosepath twill. Will end up being 5 hand towels each w different warp patterns & colors.