Band weaving

I'm excited to announce that my second book will be available on August 28, 2024! It can be pre-ordered from Schiffer Publishing and various booksellers, and you can also ask your favorite weaving shop or bookstore to order it for you. Read the description below or click here to visit the book's page at Schiffer…

I am running an online workshop for the Braid Society on Braids & Bands group https://groups.io/g/braidsandbands This blog is part of the workshop for week one. The Woolery in the USA, has published a post about the workshop https://woolery.com/blog/ If you live in the USA, their online shop is open for equipment etc. I love band weaving. The back strap is such a practical way to weave and very portable. I also love weaving equipment, from the simple to the more highly decorated. I have…

We have recently been sent the following, lovely post, from long-term Woodlorean Bosco Li. Bosco has successfully tried his hand at making a pair of beautiful Sami shoe bands, after seeing them on …

Kerstin Neumüller on Instagram: "I got some questions about the Blue horse heddles I posted yesterday, mainly about their function. These slates with holes and slits are weaving tools, in Swedish they are called “Bandgrind” and in English I call them simply “heddles”, although “Scandinavian rigid heddle for band weaving” would be more accurate. The heddles have traditionally been used to weave bands with, and I’ve been making them for 3 1/2 years now. If you want to know - How to make…

Band Weaving Equipment Here is a new outlet for the Sunna heddle in the UK. Handweavers Studio now sell the Stoorstalka heddles and shuttles. https://www.handweavers.co.uk/ They sell rigid heddles, inkle looms and yarn in very useful small amounts.Their shop is an Aladdin's cave. Well worth browsing the online shop or better still visit their beautiful shop in London. Stoorstålka, Sweden and Online Stoorstålka sell rigid heddles and shuttles for weaving narrow bands. They ship items…

Learn how to weave pickup designs on a Saami rigid heddle band loom. This workshop will provide an introduction to 3 styles of Sami band looms made by Stoorstalka – The Sigga heddle, the Sunn…

Look familiar? The project was introduced in the second half of this post .

Rigid heddles are wonderful tools for bandweaving, once you know how to use them. Watch an exclusive video featuring Spin Off’s Kate Larson to learn how to warp and weave on a rigid heddle, no loom required!

Weaving a filled tubular cord with a weaving disc. This blog accompanies two articles in the Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. https://journalwsd.org.uk/ Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, 285 Spring 2023 A Weaving Disc - an exploration of history and uses. Part 1, and 285 2023, Summer, A Weaving Disc - part 2. What is disc weaving? I have been exploring a little known weaving implement: a weaving disc. The disc seems to have originated in Indonesia but also appears in Lithuania…