Just found you and you are a great teacher. I am also learning everyday and will forever. Learning to sew with my weaving material and it’s wonderful. Keep making and I will watch.
Very nice chat! As a new weaver, I like your style best. I was warping my new project as I listened (and watched where appropriate). I only started weaving last November, 2021, but am on my 7th project. I’ve tried your waffle weave with pickup stick and am in love with the effect. Sampling is going to be a new thing for me, but I have some questions about how some colors will look together and want to try out some more pickup stick patterns.
i wish i had your drive and focus... i can't do one task for too long. little muscles in my hands and back cramp from repetitive action, i switch tasks about every 20 minutes. so, serious question... i'm building a simple 2 shaft rigid heddle/(hopefully) floor loom. a bamboo skewer reed and string heddles seems easier than making a rigid heddle. my plan is to wind the warp on beams pegged to a frame, use string heddles pulled by levers attached to a castle.the frame is 50 inches so i might make a 24 inch loom opposite from each other so i can have two similar projects working at once. i need a priest to exercise this possession, i am obsessed with making looms and wheels out of what I'm suppose to throw away! anywho, when do you NEED the function of a breast beam/when i build my loom, should i strive to mount a breast beam? i cannot see the purpose besides raising the bed of the web and/or helping with epi distribution... and i don't have much wood. haha
Yes, the breast beam is essential for levelling your warp and subsequently, your weaving as you weave. It provides you with a flat, straight warp to weave on. It also tensions the warp at the front as you begin to advance the warp. I just want to mention as well, you said that you get sore in your hands and back. My experience from weaving with heddle rods versus rigid heddles is that the heddle rods are more strenuous to operate. You have to exert the pressure on the heddle rods and then keep them held up to keep the shed open, whereas if you have a rigid heddle, you only exert pressure to place it in position, but then it holds the shed open for you. Just something extra you might want to consider for your loom 😉
Just found you and you are a great teacher. I am also learning everyday and will forever. Learning to sew with my weaving material and it’s wonderful. Keep making and I will watch.
Thank you!
I love this type of video, I learn so much this way.
Great to hear, thank you Dora 😊
Love seeing the process you go thru to develop your classes. Thank you, have a great day!!
Thanks Alice!
And don't forget to take good notes on everything you try 😉
100%! 😀
That was awesome and actually I love the colors. Can’t wait to try it.
Thank you!
Thanks Kelly, looking forward to the project
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can we make this video on a rigid heddle loom. it's about this video
Very nice chat! As a new weaver, I like your style best. I was warping my new project as I listened (and watched where appropriate). I only started weaving last November, 2021, but am on my 7th project. I’ve tried your waffle weave with pickup stick and am in love with the effect. Sampling is going to be a new thing for me, but I have some questions about how some colors will look together and want to try out some more pickup stick patterns.
Wow, 7 projects already, you're really going for it! Great to see 😀
could i ask you to show this point on you tube please
Love this type of video.
Great, thank you!
I enjoyed your video
Thanks Amelia ❤️
Thanks, Kelly. I always learn something watching your videos. 💖
A weavers lives here....what is that in your Shop?
Yes, it's available here - kellys-store-15.creator-spring.com/listing/weaving-happens-here?product=2125
i wish i had your drive and focus... i can't do one task for too long. little muscles in my hands and back cramp from repetitive action, i switch tasks about every 20 minutes.
so, serious question...
i'm building a simple 2 shaft rigid heddle/(hopefully) floor loom. a bamboo skewer reed and string heddles seems easier than making a rigid heddle. my plan is to wind the warp on beams pegged to a frame, use string heddles pulled by levers attached to a castle.the frame is 50 inches so i might make a 24 inch loom opposite from each other so i can have two similar projects working at once. i need a priest to exercise this possession, i am obsessed with making looms and wheels out of what I'm suppose to throw away!
anywho, when do you NEED the function of a breast beam/when i build my loom, should i strive to mount a breast beam? i cannot see the purpose besides raising the bed of the web and/or helping with epi distribution... and i don't have much wood. haha
Yes, the breast beam is essential for levelling your warp and subsequently, your weaving as you weave. It provides you with a flat, straight warp to weave on. It also tensions the warp at the front as you begin to advance the warp.
I just want to mention as well, you said that you get sore in your hands and back. My experience from weaving with heddle rods versus rigid heddles is that the heddle rods are more strenuous to operate. You have to exert the pressure on the heddle rods and then keep them held up to keep the shed open, whereas if you have a rigid heddle, you only exert pressure to place it in position, but then it holds the shed open for you.
Just something extra you might want to consider for your loom 😉
@@KellyCasanova thank you!!! Breast beam it is. I may order of brand heddles from etsy.