Tracy Jackson of Salem offered a presentation regarding using a Viking loom during Saturday’s meeting of the East Ohio Handweavers Guild at Leetonia Public Library. Also known as a warp-weighted loom, ...

What is it?The making of fabric for wall hangings, rugs, throws, clothing or anything else by using a loom, on which you pass the weft (the horizontal yarn in a fabric) over and under the warp yarn ...

The warp-weighted loom uses a system of holding the warp threads parallel under tension by tying them in small bunches to weights made of stone, pottery or metal. From the beginning of Western history ...

If you are new to weaving, making a rag rug is an excellent introduction to this rhythmic and methodical craft. Most likely, you have every thing you need at home: cardboard, string and fabric scraps.

The loom allows each weaver to create patterns while weaving yarn across hundreds of warp threads that are stretched on the saori wooden loom. The looms were originally introduced by the former monk ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- In a room full of more than 120 looms, you'll find Natalie Boyett, the owner of The Chicago Weaving School. "We have some weavers who love to weave creative pieces of art and others ...

In the Pimo loom the warp is attached to two sticks, and stretched upon the ground by means of stakes. Each alternate thread of the warp is passed around a piece of cane, which, being lifted, opens a ...

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Amonth ago, after three generations of warp and weft, the 12 power looms at P Sampath Kumar’s weaving facility in Somanur fell silent. Today, they lie in pieces, stripped of their glory and history, ...