What kinds of yarns are you drawn to? What kinds of yarns are you knitting/crocheting with? What are you hoarding wishing you knew what to make with that one skein you had to buy? In art weaving your taste in yarn will be pretty close to what it already is. So when selecting a loom, rather than looking at projects you think you will make, look at the yarn in your stash. And with the new small DPI and dynamic heddle reeds designed for working with chunky hand spun art yarns, and I was looking at a whole new creative direction all together for insanely textural rustic cloth. This hippie girl thought coarse woven cloth was a little too hippie-rustic even for me! But, as I fell into the rhythm of designing every inch of my yardage as I worked, the fabric I was creating felt more like a tapestry than rustic yardage. ![]() For example, I never liked the look of course hand woven cloth. I have found with many crafts, once I have fallen into the actual hands on creative work, so many inspirations for new ideas. I especially start to find new perspectives for techniques I was sure I would never resonate with. When selecting your loom, it is so easy to assume you have an idea about what you will be making. I want to get to weaving as fast a possible.Ĭonsider your yarn, not your final projects. And while I will share how the warp can be a great place to add little creative touches to your fabric, for me, the soul of art weaving is in the actual weaving my weft. My 8″ Sample It loom can be warped and ready to go in 20 minutes. I would have never considered a “scarf loom” as such a creative outlet. That is why I was floored when Debra was finding all kinds of weaving love with her tiny portable 8″ loom. I was surprised how much time was spent dressing the loom compared to actually weaving. Especially since I am all of 5′ 3″ with an arm span of a short girl, 24″ was a better fit for my build.īut to be honest, the 24″ was still a lot of warping. The owner suggested the smaller 24″ because, as a weaver herself, she felt the 32″ was just a little wide to manage comfortably. I was going for the biggest rigid heddle loom that they had– the 32″ Kromski Harp. I had set out to get my first rigid heddle loom from my local craft shop. Logic has it that a bigger loom will give you more flexible much larger width fabric. Why loom size matters…and it’s not what you think… While I do follow a lot of the theories of Saori weaving, I unfortunately do not have a saori loom (although OMG it is definitely on my wish list). This is completely about rigid heddle weaving. This series is based on what has worked for me. ![]() I am sure I break a lot of rules. So just be forewarned. My weaving, like my knitting and crocheting, are born out of the yarns I dye and hand spin. This is the first post of a four part series sharing my personal perspective and process. ![]() But it wasn’t until I came home with a tiny loom I had never imagined my weaving obsession would take off the way it has.Īfter getting a handful of emails asking about my weavings, I decided that a blog series was in order. I had already had a couple of looms, and had even done some intuitive-style art weaving. I m totally blaming Debra Lambert of Picasso Moon, who taught the so very inspiring weaving class in Taos. If you have been following my Instagram feed or Pinterest boards, you may have seen I have been on a weaving kick.
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