Weaving tools

A weaver recently asked how to prevent the bobbins from catching in her double bobbin shuttle. This problem is less about double bobbin shuttles than it is about bobbins...

The Fine Line Creative Arts Center, supported by the Schacht Tools for Schools Grant, has broadened its weaving curriculum to include the use of Flip looms. During the recently hosted Teacher Institute Day, the Center provided fifteen educators with the opportunity to engage directly with pre-warped looms.

So, you’ve just started weaving (or have for a while) and you love it! But, you are OVERWHELMED with where to purchase some of the most basic weaving tools and supplies. When you do a google search, you are brought to sites for every type of weaving: rigid heddle loom weaving, square loom weaving, stick weaving, and everything in between. You have just discovered that the world of weaving is much bigger than you thought! I know exactly how you feel. That was my experience when I first…

There are some weaving tools that you need to get started. Then there are tools that you could weave without, but should you?

A simple frame loom is a FANTASTIC piece of equipment to have in your studio. They are versatile, portable, and easy to store.

The warp ikat process: weaving.Sketch showing how a backstrap loom is used by weavers on Hainan Island to weave ikat cloth. Weavers use similar backstrap looms

Kerstin Neumüller on Instagram: "I got some questions about the Blue horse heddles I posted yesterday, mainly about their function. These slates with holes and slits are weaving tools, in Swedish they are called “Bandgrind” and in English I call them simply “heddles”, although “Scandinavian rigid heddle for band weaving” would be more accurate. The heddles have traditionally been used to weave bands with, and I’ve been making them for 3 1/2 years now. If you want to know - How to make…

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Online yarn stores are one of the easiest ways to fill your weaving studio. If you can't get to a local yarn store - you can bring the yarn to you!

As much as I love working with bone and horn, I have enjoyed carving various hardwoods into craft tools. Below is a selection of tools used for needle binding, braiding or weaving. All have been carved from either boxwood, ironwood, ash or bamboo. The image below shows four slightly different styles of weaving shuttle. The weft thread is wound onto the shuttle to be passed through the shed in the warp threads. These styles are based on shuttle designs that have been in existence for many…