Tips for Tear-Free Tablet Weaving
Christina shares some of her techniques for weaving intermediate tablet-weaving patterns.
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Christina shares some of her techniques for weaving intermediate tablet-weaving patterns.
Sometimes the best solution to a mistake is to rip things apart and start over again.
Anne wanted to weave with a yak/silk blend in the warp, but was worried about the damage the heddle might do to the fuzzy yarn. Instead of giving up, she applied sizing, a temporary coating designed to protect yarns while weaving.
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When spinning for tapestry consider this: What kind of reflectance do I want in the finished yarn? And what yarn properties will best allow me to create the desired image?
Christina gives tips for weaving with an extra-fluffy yarn on the pin loom and her trick for weaving thick yarn through those last few rows. (Hint: It involves dental floss!)
Susan prefers to direct warp when weaving on the rigid-heddle loom, and will go to great lengths to avoid during otherwise. Here she recounts a few times when direct warping was anything but.
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Sometimes what you get from a course isn’t part of the course.
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The key to using the Block Island Blend, and really any traditional weaving yarn to weave towels on the rigid-heddle loom, is to follow a few rules.