I got this for Christmas (the person who gifted it to me said it was a loom) but I have no idea how to even begin using it. Any insight is helpful, thank you!
I recently took a program on Coast Salish Weaving and we used looms just like this. Except with ours there was a third bar, it’s a wooden dowel just like the others, but instead it attached to the warp strands meant to move the weaving down/around the front and back of the loom.
A very very basic loom. You can use it various ways. Do a simple wrapped around warp and then do small tapestry weaving on it. It could function as a warp weighted loom. You can tie a long skinny warp around it and weave a short band in a loop. (Not a fully exhaustive list.)
A very small upright tapestry loom. You tie on the warp, weave in the weft (using a needle or tiny stick shuttle or bobbin) and cut the finished piece off. You are limited to whatever can be woven inside the frame, there is no way to tie on a longer warp.
It's probably a tapestry loom like others said. I just wanted to point out that my traveling tablet weaving loom looks a lot like that, except without the base, and I can turn the rods to tension. (I had a lot of trial and error maintaining the tension.) So you can also weave long historical narrow bands, longer than the loom itself, if you use it like a mini Oseberg loom.
No idea. Doesn't look like a loom to me - but I supposed anything you can attached yarn to is technically a loom?
I'd use the wiki we have here for resources regarding tapestry weaving.
Oops I didn't know that was a thing. Thanks :)
I recently took a program on Coast Salish Weaving and we used looms just like this. Except with ours there was a third bar, it’s a wooden dowel just like the others, but instead it attached to the warp strands meant to move the weaving down/around the front and back of the loom.
edit: grammar
Looks like a frame loom like for tapestry work?
It looks like the “loom” from those fiber dolls, let me find a photo
https://preview.redd.it/x54d6m7v1u9g1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46135f6bc025e5394ff77b9b5a38a5bf94837681
https://preview.redd.it/szxtcblw1u9g1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40f929816bc29003710ab2af4822b3e451ae4dd5
Oh wow! That looks very advanced...thanks for the insight!
A very very basic loom. You can use it various ways. Do a simple wrapped around warp and then do small tapestry weaving on it. It could function as a warp weighted loom. You can tie a long skinny warp around it and weave a short band in a loop. (Not a fully exhaustive list.)
Thanks !
A very small upright tapestry loom. You tie on the warp, weave in the weft (using a needle or tiny stick shuttle or bobbin) and cut the finished piece off. You are limited to whatever can be woven inside the frame, there is no way to tie on a longer warp.
Thank you!
It's probably a tapestry loom like others said. I just wanted to point out that my traveling tablet weaving loom looks a lot like that, except without the base, and I can turn the rods to tension. (I had a lot of trial and error maintaining the tension.) So you can also weave long historical narrow bands, longer than the loom itself, if you use it like a mini Oseberg loom.
Thank you!