TUTORIALS + TECHNIQUES

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.

Learn how to use a heddle rod on your loom, as well as how to use a heddle rod and pick up sticks together.

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

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

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

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.

Learn about tensioning sticks and S-hooks used in weaving.