Band weaving

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 …

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…

6-20-22 - I still love the pattern, it is so beautiful! But I wasn’t able to fix the mess I made, without making more of a mess. It had worn me out. So I cut it off the loom, I would have only bee...

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…

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…

Narrow patterns are fun to weave. In the last post, I provided 24 charts for five pattern ends in Baltic-style pick-up. In this post, I’ll show you three examples of how narrow patterns might…

If I want to try out a band pattern or just weave something quickly I usually set up the warp and thread it onto my heddle at the same time. This isn’t the most meticulous way to set up a small weave, but I find it to be the fastest and for small weaves woven on my kind of heddles I find it to work

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