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10:28 am
[faeryl]
[Link] | Hi everyone - I may be buying an old Leclerc Initation loom and was wondering if anyone here has ever used one. If you did, what were your impressions? How easy is it to fold up to save space(my husband and I live in a small 1 bedroom apartment)? And do you think that I'd be able to replace the existing wire heddles with Texsolve ones? Thanks!
Karen *crossposted to warp and weft* Current Mood:  curious
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08:32 am
[deedeebythebay]
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Cross Posted - A New Loom
I just found a loom off the internet in my local community for $50. It is a Nilus Leclerc loom, worth around $2000-$2500. It is a major steal and I'm really excited about it. This could be a boon to our budet since I've been unemployed for over a year and have just started homeschooling.
But there's a problem.
I have no idea how to use this thing, no idea where to find supplies, no idea of anything except I've wanted a loom and to learn how to use it for well over eight years now.
Pointers or directions anyone?
Thanks.
*****
And yes, I'm new to the community. I'm a leftwing hippie type with three kids, a husband and a housemate. I sew, crochet, knit, sculpt and paint. Hopefully soon I'll be weaving as well. Thanks!
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07:43 pm
[milkyrosie]
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Another newbie
I just joined and I think you all are awsome! I've been weaving for about five years, but I'm in college now and there is no room for a loom in my dorm. I have been doing some work with tablet-weaving here, and hope to weave over breaks. I'm mostly self-taught, but I know some good techniques for dealing with finicky looms if anyone needs help.
Current Mood: awake
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02:11 pm
[talullahred]
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Newbie saying hi
Hello all,
I'm Talullah, I'm 28 and have been weaving since I was eleven, though with some large intervals between pieces (the last one was almost two years ago). I am Portuguese so I don't know the vast majority of the technical terms in English, so if anyone could recomend a nice page with a scheme and the names of everything I'd really appreciate it as my searches have been a bit fruitless.
At this moment I'm weaving a couple of baby blankets to a friend who's having twins. They are a white and blue checker pattern.
Anyway, that's it.
Love to everyone,
Talullah
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08:48 am
[quaintqueer]
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Choosing Warp
Hi, I am a beginning weaver. I find it really relaxing! I have made two triangular shawls on a 4 x 4 warping board, and I am wanting to try weaving on a backstrap loom. I have a few books (love the library!) but they don't talk much about how to choose your warp fiber. It seemed to me that the weft fiber is what determines the color of your weaving, am I very wrong? Can anyone help set me straight?
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10:54 pm
[bluekittyorange]
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Fuzzy Warps
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with a very fuzzy warp? I have been experimenting
with lots of different kinds of yarns but some of them are quite fuzzy and they stick to each other as
I weave. The result is nice, but I have to keep stopping to separate the threads from one another so that the shed opens up properly. Any ideas would be appreciated!
Current Mood: curious
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01:16 pm
[unluckymonkey]
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Viva La Poncho!
No I don't speak spanish so I'm sure tht's all wrong.. ah well.  I did an inlay technique but am looking into ones that work better and with which I can do more colorful/complicated designs. |
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01:44 am
[unluckymonkey]
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First Weaving
 empty  full I took this off the loom after finishing it this morning. I'm fairly satisfied because I've never woven before all on my own. I had access to a loom for a while but never did anything but warp it. Today I finished this, warped the loom for my other project and have woven the body of a BIG bag. I think next I'll make the 3D bag I have in mind. I just have to strip and sew up the scrap fabric I've sorted out with Ma. My lsit of to do's is SO long for this weekend. I actually wrote it on paper. I know you're disappointed. I'm sure you only get by from day to day looking at my lavish and ornate to do lists, right? Hello? >crickets< ... |
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02:19 am
[innocentxv]
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a question
as part of my ongoing goal of eventually learning all forms of weaving, i recently purchased an inkle loom (recently as in it just arrived in the mail today; taking a break from threading my first project to post this). i've done some searches, but haven't seen any software around for designing on an inkle loom (as compared to GTT for tablet weaving or any of a plethora of packages for harness weaving). assuming no one knows of any, does anyone know if it's possible to simulate an inkle loom with a standard harness loom weave draft? any help would be appreciated Current Music: Unto Ashes - A Hymn To Pan
Current Mood: curious
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07:49 pm
[kathrynt]
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I crave INFORMATION!
I'm a knitter, dyer, and handspinner, and I'm thinking of looking into tapestry weaving. Which I know exactly zero about. I've googled about tapestry weaving with handspun and found a bunch of fractured, disjointed list archives, and I've read the Spin-Off article about it, but I can't find anything else! Does anyone have any good resources they can point me to? Because I got nothin'.
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