Tablet weaving loom

This is the 4th incarnation of my loom. With the help of my brilliant son and husband, I gathered ideas for the warp roller and here it is! It works great so far and I'm loving how easy it is to move the warp forward. The back piece of PVC has holes drilled in it (I have my own drill press) and a chopstick is inserted in the holes (which are drilled across from each other) to move and hold the roller bar. The loom has "legs" to allow more room for rolled warp. This took many trips to Lowe's…

Card Woven Ukulele Strap: Card weaving (or tablet weaving) has been used to weave selvedges, tapes, belts, straps, and trim since at least 800 BC. I'm going to walk you through the steps to basic card weaving with a pattern to make a colorful diamond strap for a ukulele. I u…

I’m enjoying teaching myself about tablet weaving, through some reading and a lot of trial and error. Over the past few months I’ve spent quite a while experimenting with ways to make sure that I’…

Card Weaving Loom

Looking for a weaving technique you can take just about anywhere? Try tablet weaving!

I’m completely hooked on Tablet weaving. Tablet weaving (or card weaving) uses cards and yarn to create patterned bands. I love the small details, how quickly it weaves up and how useful the finished product is. It’s a surprise every time I turn the cards and a pattern actually emerges! T

Tablet Weaving for the Absolute Beginner: Birka 6 – Lady Elewys of Finchingefeld, JdL, GdS

At an SCA event a couple of weekends ago, a lady was working on a really wonderful small loom: She was making this fantastic brocade-type trim, weaving a straight tabby with an overshot pattern. The results were fantastic, and small...

DIY Weaving Loom From IKEA BEKVÄM Spice Rack: This project shows you how to build a small loom for band weaving. It can be used with a rigid heddle or with tablets. It uses IKEA's BEKVÄM spice rack, a chopstick, some strong thread, and assorted hardware. If you have all the tools, you can build…

Beginners Guide to Tablet Weaving - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document provides an overview of how to do tablet weaving using the forward/back technique. It discusses drafting patterns using a grid system, warping the loom by threading warp strands through labeled tablets according to the pattern, and the weaving process of turning the tablets forward and back while passing the weft through. The document is intended as a beginner's guide…

I've proposed a class in tablet weaving for our local OLLI. I don't know how the proposal will fare, but I'm having fun doing the research. Tablet weaving has been resident in my box of tricks for a long time....

This morning Bob and I left New Mexico and drove almost four hours to the little town of Van Horn, Texas. Van Horn is a town that has little to offer except a place to get off the road when you’re on the way to someplace else. We leave tomorrow morning for Fort Stockton, Texas. I wanted to share about my new loom that Bob made for me. On Ravelry, the inkle weaving group has been discussing Keel Looms, which are built using the plans found in the book “Small Looms in Action,” by Elizabeth…

I love cardweaving. Inkle weaving lets me create longer lengths of weaving but card weaving allows me to create more interesting patterns. Combining the two was problematic but I'm pleased with the results. I still have to comb out the warp sometimes but a girl can't have everything! I can't figure out how to get the tension I want, the lengths I want and the freedom from 'comb-out'. Swivels for each card would dramatically increase the width of loom when I use finer threads. Suggestions…

Christina shares some of her techniques for weaving intermediate tablet-weaving patterns.

Showing how to change colours by either rotating the tablet in the opposite direction or by flipping the tablet about its vertical axis then continuing rotation in the same direction At the diagram 1 (notice the numbers I have put on the picture), the tablet is threaded up and ready to go. It is turned forward 1/4 turn to get to diagram 2. You can see that the hole that was at position A rises up - this thread will be on the top of the weave, so this line of weave will be blue. At diagram 2…