Another Little Loom Project

 

Jen has once again inspired us with her colorful patterned potholders.

She had a wonderful time with her family playing with an old fashioned potholder loom. Remember those when we were kids? They still have them at Hobby Lobby and Harrisville Designs, The Woolery and more.

 

It's a great way to try out color and weave patterns without having to warp a table or floor loom. We prefer the cotton loops over the nylon ones that melt. Some of the looms come with 18 pegs per side (Hobby Lobby)and some have 19 (more expensive). It will make a difference in the pattern possibilities.

We recommend this book for inspiration:

Happy Weaving!

Tensioning your warp while you wind on (without a partner to help)

 At Sage Weavers we talk about all things weaving and sometimes we pick up good tips from other weavers.  

 This month, one of our new weavers asked questions about how to manage a warp without anyone to help her while she was winding it on to the back beam.  An experienced weaver, Suzanne, told her about how she uses C clamps to weight the warp (as opposed to lots of heavy books, etc.)  Here are photos of the process.  As Suzanne winds the warp and the C clamps advance closer to the loom, they are repositioned further back on the warp.

You can see that these are heavy C clamps to give a good weight to the warp and they are positioned in back of the raddle.

Give this technique a try on your next warp and let us know how it works for you. 

 

 Here is what Suzanne says about the process 

* just remember to stand back to shake out and snap each section to get your threads aligned before attaching clamps and winding. 

Guessing you could do this with table loom if hanging off the back end of table. 

May need smaller clamps as this size might be to heavy to wind on table loom since it’s a knob vs a crank handle to wind.