Ridged heddle weaving projects

A new weaver takes us on her odyssey from dishcloths to statement scarves.

Rigid Heddle loom patterns that will help you increase your weaving skills while creating beautiful garments and accessories for you and your home.

Simple and Complex Patterns on the rigid heddle loom

...double-weave-20161"﹥Link to the draft I used. I do wish I’d used thinner yarn. I was worried that fingering weight yarn would end up looking gappy at 10 epi, but this scarf is a little unwieldy because of its weight. I was also a bit heavy handed with beating the yarn. I could have loosened up my weaving a bit and the scarf would have been lighter as a result.

Hybrid warping on a rigid heddle loom – Ashford Wheels and Looms

Weaving is something I've wanted to learn for a very long time. This Winter I bought myself a 60 cm Rigid Heddle Loom from Ashford, and with the help of books and online tutorials, taught myself the basics of weaving.

Here's a quick tutorial on the making of the ultimate beginner's scarf on a rigid heddle loom. Starting weaving has never been that easy!

How do I get the yarn on the loom? It's not nearly as complicated as you might think. Warping a rigid-heddle loom is particularly easy and fast. Here, I demo...

I warped my rug with a couple of weights of crochet cotton. Size 3 crochet cotton (the Aunt Lydia's brand is commonly available) is a great warping material. Since I only had about half of what I needed, I interspersed it with some lighter weight crochet cotton just to see how it would work. In retrospect, the size 3 (which I think is also known at #10) is the perfect weight. Note to self: stock up. The numbers: 170 warp threads in the 7.5 dpi heddle, 58 inch warp length. In the future I'll…

These projects are all great ways to make useful items and experiment, when you’re first learning or learning a new technique. They can all be made with worsted or DK weight yarns with a 7.5 or 8 dent heddle.

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Did you know that you can weave with one, two, even three heddles on your rigid heddle loom? Find out the benefits to weaving with more than one heddle!

There was a time when weavers were told that rigid-heddle looms were only good for scarves and shawls—thank goodness for everyone this was proved wrong.

Soft Plaid Recently, I started learning how to use the rigid heddle loom through Craftsy’s class Rigid Heddle Weaving by Angela Tong. If you are looking for a beginner class, or are needing a…

Learn how to improve your selvedges in 5 easy tips! Weaving is a lot of fun, but sometimes it can give us headache trying to achieve nice selvedges. With thi...

Intermediate Weaving: Using Two Heddles, Exploring Double Weave . With Susan Snider. Sunday, September 11, 2016. 9 AM-3PM. **Limit 4 students, $25.00 deposit holds your space. Adding a second heddle to a rigid heddle loom will open up new possibilities with your weaving! It can make it possible for new weave structures, a tighter weave with more than 12 ends per inch, and make wider fabrics too! Join Susan as she shows you what is possible with the humble rigid heddle loom. …

Here's the Teal Colored Scarf in Cotton-Merino Yarn! Learn how and made this scarf using my rigid heddle loom using some soft and fluffly yarn.

Saori weaving is a fun and unique technique that focuses on being creative in the weft of your weaving. The technique is free-form, and lots of fun, as well as being a surprisingly quick technique to make completely unique fiber art. I discussed the technique and some history of saori weaving in an earlier article ... Read More about Saori Weaving Tutorial: Warping a Rigid Heddle Loom