Weaving Without a Loom, by Veronica Burningham
It's a wonderful, exciting book which just opens up this whole part of the fiberarts world, and you can learn to make lovely things with simple tools.
The bag under the book in the picture is one I made following her instructions; the handle and the bookmark are stick- woven, also learned here. I have weaving sticks, but you can use drinking straws just as well.
She doesn't plunge into the shed and reed and epi and heddle language beloved of the traditional loom weaver. You can leave that till much later without missing much, though it's fun to study.
The book is out of print but still available used. It has been issued in editions with different cover art, but the same contents, so don't go just by the cover.
I've woven on pvc pipes, picture frames, sheets of cardboard, circular saw blades, twigs, an old clock face frame, all fun. Now I'm building a more conventional tapestry loom.
I weave with donated yarn or floss, or fabric strips, beads, wire, and spin my own yarn.
So I'm just saying, don't wait till you have a "real" loom, or even a real budget! just leap, and the net will appear.
Not that I'm enabling or anything. Anyway I have to stop now and do a bit of spinning..
No, I didn't read this - no, I didn't. Enabler? Oh yeah. Get thee behind me, temptation
ReplyDeleteWondering if the cqteers fancy learning drinking straw weaving. Unless you clever folks already do it..
ReplyDeleteOK you got me, for one, don't know about the other CQTs. Not fussy about the straw weaving but like the idea of a 'Y' twig. So atwigging I will go.
ReplyDelete\note: tutorials seem to be directed to children which confirms what I suspected - I'm in my 2nd childhood!
I find a lot of beginning tutorials assume you're a little kid. Which is fine, because the teaching is aimed where I am!
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