Crazyshot!-Creative Overshot Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom

Author: Myra Wood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980018271
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Elegant patterns on a Rigid Heddle Loom are easier than you can imagine! Crazyshot - creative overshot weaving - introduces anyone who uses a rigid heddle loom to a whole world of creative weaving. Using just one heddle and one pick-up stick, you'll explore color, design, and texture, taking your weaving to the next level. Complete step-by-step instructions are included for weaving all 14 designs in this book. Also provided are how-tos for the single heddle overshot technique, reading charts for the rigid heddle loom, and finishing techniques, along with lots of tips and tricks for successful and satisfying results. Complex patterning is easier than it looks with this simple charted technique. All you need are basic rigid heddle warping and weaving skills to start your next weaving adventure! With one heddle and one stick, Myra Wood explores the art of working with ground and pattern wefts in this creative approach to rigid-heddle weaving. Known for her for colorwork across many mediums, Myra beautifully illustrates that complex does not have to be complicated. --Liz Gipson, Author of A Weaver's Guide to Yarn and other books for rigid-heddle weaving and the host of the Yarnworker School

Crazyshot!

Author: Myra Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Looms
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
" creative overshot weaving - introduces anyone who uses a rigid heddle loom to a whole world of creative weaving. Using just one heddle and one pick-up stick, you’ll explore color, design, and texture, taking your weaving to the next level. Complete step-by-step instructions are included for weaving all 14 designs in this book. Also provided are how-tos for the single heddle overshot technique, reading charts for the rigid heddle loom, and finishing techniques, along with lots of tips and tricks for successful and satisfying results. Complex patterning is easier than it looks with this simple charted technique. All you need are basic rigid heddle warping and weaving skills to start your next weaving adventure!"--Cover, page 4.

Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving

Author: Betty Linn Davenport
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0934026254
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
With instructions for how to make wonderful projects and plain-weave variations, this user-friendly guide covers choosing, setting up, and weaving on a rigid heddle loom. Both beginners and experienced weavers will value its thriftiness and versatility.

Textures and Patterns for the Rigid Heddle Loom

Author: Betty Linn Davenport
Publisher: Ruth Linn Davenport
ISBN: 9780615201061
Category : Hand weaving
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description

The Weaver's Idea Book

Author: Jane Patrick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1620331675
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description
New and experienced weavers alike are always on the lookout for new weave-structure patterns. The Weaver's Idea Book presents a wide variety of patterns for the simple rigid-heddle loom, accompanied by harness drafts for multishaft looms. The techniques include leno, Brooks bouquet, soumak, and embroidery on fabric. Each chapter contains weaving patterns along with swatches illustrating the techniques, accompanied by step-by-step photography. The book is arranged by structure or type of weave, from variations on plain weave to doubleweave. With traditional patterns from around the world, bands, and fabrics woven on two double heddles, The Weaver's Idea Book brings together a variety of ways to create exquisite cloth. Weaving tips and tricks help weavers at all levels achieve their textile dreams. In addition to pattern drafts, Jane offers project ideas that guide the reader through creating functional woven projects, from wearables to home decor. Weaving, especially on rigid-heddle looms, is enjoying a resurgence, and contemporary weavers are in need of a book to bridge the divide between basic books and complex text designed for advanced weavers with sophisticated tools. Celebrating the immense potential for creativity possible with the simplest of tools, The Weaver's Idea Book eBook opens new avenues for exploration on both the rigid-heddle and multishaft looms.

Hand-loom Weaving

Author: Mattie Phipps Todd
Publisher: Shorey Publications
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom

Author: Syne Mitchell
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1603428518
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Rigid-heddle weaving is simple to learn, is easy to master, and offers a lifetime of possibilities to discover! Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom covers everything rigid-heddle weavers need to know about the craft, from the basics — how to select a loom, set it up, and get started — to a wide variety of fun techniques that yield beautiful results. Begin by exploring a variety of weave structures, including finger-manipulated laces, tapestry, and color play with stripes, plaids, and multicolor yarns. Then move on to more complex designs and irresistible projects, from pillows and curtains to bags, shawls, and even jewelry. Explore warp-face patterning, weft-pile weaving, weaving with fine threads, woven shibori, shadow weave, and the textural effects you can create with different yarns and with wire and conductive thread. Everything you need to know is here, with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions to ensure success.

Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes

Author: Norma Smayda
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN: 9780764332463
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.

Weft-Faced Pattern Weaves

Author: Nancy Arthur Hoskins
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780764338519
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Travel beyond the traditional limits of boundweave with this comprehensive guide to weft-faced pattern weaves. Beginning and experienced weavers alike will learn how to plan, predict and weave colourful, rhythmical patterns, charming folk figures, and geometric designs in fabrics that are decorative and durable. Fifty-three projects range from simple to complex weaves. Directions, patterns, and tips are provided for the plain weave, twill, point twill, rosepath, overshot, taqueté, and samitum. It also features Coptic taquete and samitum re-creations and patterns from the Tunic of Tutankhamun. Engaging and informative text accompanies diagrams, illustrated samplers, and drafts with threading, tie-up, treadling, and drawdowns. This is the definitive work on weft-faced pattern weaves and is a must-have reference and resource guide for weavers and crafters alike.

Pin Loom Weaving to Go

Author: Margaret Stump
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811765407
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
Step-by-step instructions for 25 projects you’ll be amazed were made from pin loom weavings! Pin looms are hot! These palm-sized weaving looms go anywhere and make just about anything you can imagine, from fashionable wrist cuffs to full-sized blankets. Just drop a pin loom in your project bag with a ball of yarn and you are on your way to fast, fun weaving. Margaret Stump, author of the original Pin Loom Weaving, has outdone herself with the 25 designs in this new book. There are elegant wraps, a fun fox bag, an American flag blanket, pillows, pins, stylish scarves, and more--all in a modern style that says "hand crafted with pride." With beginning weavers in mind, Margaret first walks you through how to weave on a 2" and 4" loom. Once you know how to make a basic square and connect your pieces, you are well on your way to making any of the projects in this book. The book divides projects into those that use a 2", 4", adjustable fine-gauge, and even a pot holder loom, and those that combine pieces from different looms, so it is easy to find a project and get started. Pin looms are readily available in a variety of sizes and materials. Choose a favorite pattern and a suitable pin loom, and start weaving anywhere and everywhere today! • All the basics of pin loom weaving and more than 30 beginning and medium level projects you can make on the go • Simple weaving techniques for portable looms • Instructions for making your own simple 2" loom • Projects for standard 2" and 4" looms, as well as weaving on potholder looms and knitting looms