Such a square pin loom is apparently easy to make :)
Links:
Square Pin Loom (Pin Loom for Weaving Fabric Squares)
Tag: Loom
XXL Loom Board
I find the XXL loom board neat!
You can surely use it also as Butterfly loom :)
Links:
XXL Loom Board ([Anleitung] Bauen // XXL Loom Board selber bauen) (German)
Here at unikatissima:
Butterfly Loom
Cardboard Loom
I presented before a cardboard box loom (ok, and the cardboard heddle loom and the quick & easy bead loom and the cardboard weave II ;-)), but I find these cardboard looms here brilliant!
Links:
Cardboard Loom (A Community Weaving Project at the Museum of Contemporary Craft)
via: Cardboard looms and Vacation Weaving
Here at unikatissima:
Cardboard Box Loom
Cardboard Heddle Loom
Quick & Easy Bead Loom
Cardboard Weave II
Branch Weaving
Here all branches are bare-branched now, you can simply use them for branch weaving ;-))
Of course you can also weave otherwise ;-)
Links:
Branch Weaving
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘weaving’
Inkle Loom Weave Pattern Generator
While searching for generators I also found the inkle loom weave pattern generator.
Here you can relate different colours to the different slots of the inkle loom and see directly how the band will look.
That’s useful :)
By the way, the Kumihimo pattern planner works in the same way, only for Kumihimo cords ;-)
Links:
Inkle Loom Plain-Weave Pattern Generator
Google image search result for ‘inkle loom’
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘generator’
Kumihimo Pattern Planner
Needle Woven Purse
I busied myself with ‘needle weaving’ before, it was about a necklace and I’ve said that it would be suitable for little purses.
And – ta-da – I’m finding a tutorial on how to weave a purse with it.
Well, I’m ahead of the times ;-)))
Links:
Needle Woven Purse (Pin woven pocket (with pseudo-tutorial))
Here at unikatissima:
African Needle Weaving Necklace
Tablet or Card Weaving
There’s a technique I haven’t tried yet although I have on my list for a very long time, and that’s tablet or card weaving.
It’s a very old technique I learned to know first in Museumsdorf Düppel, the reconstruction of an 800 year old village.
With card weaving you can make soo wonderful straps, similar to Kumihimo (but only similar! ;-)).
I’m at the point ‘already’ where I looked for some instructions (see links below) ;-)
Links:
Basic Tablet Weaving
Cardweaving Made Easy
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now only available through: Cardweaving Made Easy
Linklist for ‘Tablet weaving’ incl a list of instructions
Google search result for ‘card weaving’
Google image search result for ‘card weaving’
Flinkhands Brettchenweben (German): click through to what you are interested in
Flinkhand’s card weaving beginners tutorial at creadoo (German)
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now only available through webarchive: Flinkhand’s card weaving beginners tutorial at creadoo (German)
Card weaving tutorial (German)
Card weaving tutorial (German)
Wikipedia article: Museumsdorf Düppel (German)
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘Kumihimo’
Cardboard Weave II
While surfing I found mini or hand-held looms (see links below), which I find very interesting, because 1st I don’t have much place at home and 2nd I know that I don’t weave, I just try it once in a while ;-))
On the photo you see the front and back side of my little woven patch.
I would never actually buy a loom, therefore I made me one from – guess… – yes: cardboard! ;-)
On the photo you see me threading the loom in one direction.
Then I thread my cardboard loom in the other direction.
That’s the way my cardboard loom looks at the back side.
Now I’m weaving in one direction.
And here I’m weaving in the other direction.
After having finished with weaving I crochet an edging to neaten the edge.
The first photo shows back and front side of the finished little piece.
Links:
At Weavettes:
How to weave on a mini loom (English) (via knitting-and.com)
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
At Weavettes:
How to weave on a mini loom (English) (via knitting-and.com)
At eLoomaNation: Big Ideas from Little Looms:
Get ideas what to do with your patches
Get basic woman measurement charts for clothing patterns at the website of Jessica Tromp just as for the Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons
Crazy Daisies II
I continued to play around with the Crazy Daisies. It is so much fun and I’m working on a Crazy Daisy Scarf. On the photo you see my scarf.
One thing I found out is that I love the little flowers much more without any edging. Therefore I’m joining them while working.
I’m measuring the yarn and wind the daisy. In doing so I’m pulling the thread immediately through the loops of the previous daisies using a blunt tapestry needle.
It takes a little longer, but this way I don’t have to assemble later and avoid the problem of hiding the ends.
The other thing I played around with is another cardboard loom. In my first Crazy Daisy entry I used a cardboard version of the ice-cream-lid-loom.
Later I found other daisy looms and created my cardboard version of it. It works very well.
My cardboard loom consists of 2 cardboard disks. I taped them together and put 12 pins between both disks. I can then wind a daisy and when finished I pull the pins out. For the next daisy I put the pins back in my cardboard loom.
Note: I found out, that the disks must be very tightly taped, otherwise the pins fall out.
I always use the same pin holes and this way the tape won’t be damaged. I used my well taped cardboard loom over and over and don’t have any problems with the pins.
This way I can make my loom on the spur of the moment in the shape and size I need at the moment. I also tried a square one and the square daisies looked also nice.
Links:
unikatissima’s Crazy Daisies
Butterfly Loom
At the website of Knitting-and.com where I found the Crazy Daisies I also found the Butterfly Loom.
As always I didn’t want to buy something without knowing if I will use it ever again and cut my butterfly loom in different sizes from cardboard as you can see on the photo.
It worked out very well, but although I’m always coming back to different kinds of weave I think I’d never be patient enough to actually create something with this technique. It’s a pity.
;-)
Links:
Knitting-and.com: Butterfly Loom
via Knitting-and.com at The Butterfly Loom:
Patterns for the Butterfly Loom
Joining Butterfly Loom Motifs
You can also find a description, faq’s and a gallery of items made with their Butterfly Loom
Here at unikatissima:
Crazy Daisies