10/31/2022 0 Comments Weaveit rigid heddle![]() ![]() Don’t be afraid to ask your local yarn store if they can have a class on a specific topic (pick up sticks, double weave, colour theory…whatever) Chances are if you want it, others do too. Live instructors will be able to answer your specific questions, see what you are doing and suggest easier ways, new ways or even tell you when you can skip a step! In addition you will meet other weavers, who may live near you, who will now be your friends! And they will have helpful ideas too. If you have the opportunity to go and take a class with a real live instructor do it! Even if it is project based and you aren’t in love with the project you will learn something. If it gives you the end result you want, it is the right way for you. ![]() ![]() Take advice, try lots of different things then do what works for you even if it is absolutely the “wrong” way. There are always multiple ways of doing the same thing. Sometimes you will run across people who are very adamant about “right” and “wrong” ways of doing things. That means that anytime I have a question someone in the world is awake and can give an answer! There are facebook groups that are just for rigid heddle weavers and they are a fount of information! I belong to a group called “Rigid Heddle Looms” and it has 5.5k members who are scattered all over the world. If you can’t find weavers near you, try hanging out online. You can learn so much from talking to other people or just watching. Or maybe there is an informal group that gets together, maybe at a home or your local yarn shop. I love Pinterest! Search rigid heddle and there are tonnes of ideas, articles, blogs, and pictures that come up. Interweave puts out a magazine each year Little Looms (My scarf is on the front cover of this year’s edition!!) and it is filled with patterns for rigid heddles, tapestry looms and pin looms. They cover colour and weave, mixing textures, pick up sticks, string heddles, using 2 and even three heddles and so much more! Both contain patterns, but what I like best about them is the number of different types of weaving and the pictures. My favourite rigid heddle weaving books are: The Weaver’s Idea Book by Jane Patrick and Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom by Syne Mitchell. So if you wove 80” on the loom, it might only measure 72” off the loom as the fibres go back to their natural relaxed state. When the fabric (it’s actually called a web at this point) is cut off the loom, all the tension is released. This allows the fibres to move up and down easily and create nice sheds for the shuttle. When you weave, the warp is under tension (stretched out). Here’s the non-technical theory behind weaving. When it comes off the loom and is finished a very dense stiff fabric results (and they have used way more yarn than they anticipated, or the pattern called for). The weft is pressed so tight that nothing is getting through that fabric. New weavers try to make the fabric on the loom look like the fabric they want when it comes off the loom. Tagged: rigid heddle loom, rigid heddle, weaving techniques, weaving blogĮxperienced weavers know that what they see on the loom is not the fabric that will come off the loom and is not the fabric that will emerge after finishing. If you think you’re ready to try pick-up sticks, here’s a link to a pattern I use to teach beginner pick-up weaving complete with video links. That’s when you might want to start using string heddles. ![]() With multiple sticks they usually need to be removed and replaced each repeat. Patterns using only 1 pick-up stick are simple, the stick can stay in place the entire weave. This will create warp floats.Īnd that is all there is to weaving with pick-up sticks! And this is only the beginning! You can use multiple pick-up sticks to create incredibly complex patterns. Slide the pick-up stick behind the heddle leaving it flat. When the yarn goes through this shed you will see weft floats.Ģ. Slide the pick-up behind the heddle and flip it on its side. Place the heddle in the neutral position. ![]()
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