Weaving Tutorials
Hemstitching Tutorial
Learn how to hemstitch your project, still in the loom, with Amanda Wood.
Amanda Wood
Amanda loves sharing her weaving knowledge and helping students realize their ideas. A graduate of the Capilano University Textile Arts program, and a member of the Canadian Guild of Weavers and the Craft Council of BC, she teaches materials driven workshops at various locations in Vancouver. In addition to teaching, Amanda has an interdisciplinary studio practice grounded in the tools and techniques of hand weaving.
Weaving Tutorials
Fixing a Broken Warp Thread
Learn how to fix a broken warp thread with your project still in the loom with Amanda Wood.
Weaving Patterns
Lacy Squares + Runner Rigid Heddle Pattern
For this project we’ll explore pick-up sticks and learn how to use warp and weft floats on their own and in combination. We’ll make five samples that would make lovely table squares. Then you can choose a structure you have woven and expand it into a table runner on a second wider warp.
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Heddle Rod SetUp
A heddle rod is a wonderful tool when you have two pickup sticks that don’t slide past each other and you are making weft floats.
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Using a Heddle Rod
Learn how to use a heddle rod on your loom, as well as how to use a heddle rod and pick up sticks together.
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Sectioning a Warp with Direct Warping Method
When we put a wider warp on a rigid heddle loom in the direct warp fashion, sometimes we can end up with different lengths in
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DIY Tensioning Device
Learn how to tension your warp on the rigid heddle loom as you are winding it on. I used three quarters of an inch rods
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How Materials Affect Tension
I’ve found that yarns with a bit of give like wool, silk, and cotton to a degree are better at holding tension. Linen needs a
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Leno Lace
Leno uses a pickup stick to twist alternating warp ends around each other, creating a pattern that is held in place with a single weft pick. There are multiple ways to do this on a rigid heddle loom. I’ll show you how it’s done for the Leno napkins pattern designed by Christine Jablonski for Gist and then a few variations.
Weaving Tutorials
Tensioning Sticks and S Hooks for Weaving
Learn about tensioning sticks and S-hooks used in weaving.
Weaving Patterns
Colour & Weave Gamp
A gamp is a sampler, a weaver’s way of using a single warp to test out multiple ideas. It could be a colour gamp or a weave structure gamp or in this case a gamp that explores colour patterns. Colour and Weave is not a weave structure but rather a pattern, in the sense that it is simply plain weave with the addition of colour effects through alternating light and dark threads.
Weaving Patterns
Breakfast Eggs Towels Pattern
The first warp uses an easy all over houndstooth colour sequence leaving areas of solid yellow and white just like you would have in a fried egg and the second shows you how to use just a bit of striping to create a colour and weave highlight in the corner of your towels with a more muted scrambled egg palette where buttery and deep yellow combine. Mix and match and make them your own.