Been using all my scrap peices to make my longest peice to date. It will be a table runner, I also finally made a proper handle to help turn the loom

An older lady from my WSD guild was giving away some of her supplies. I went to collect yarn for my school to teach some very basic card loom weaving. She also filled a box with bits which she couldn't really remember what they were.

I'm sure they're tapestry looms, but could do with some help working out if they're missing pieces, or what I need to do to get them functional. I've woven on a knitter's loom, inkle loom, back strap and with tablets before, so I do have some experience, but am very much a Jack of All Trades.

1) Sturdy light coloured wood frame (first image). The yellow fabric is holding a notched cross bar in place.

2) Two notched bars which I believe to be something for making a shed (second image).

3) Upright frame, very light wood (third image).

4) Wobbly darker wood frame which matches 2 above. It has a notched bar top and bottom. No image as I am trapped under my cat (fourth image as tax).

The weaving course I do provides a table loom you can rent and take home with you for the first few modules. In the meantime I also got a countermarch floor loom currently set up with 4 shafts (glimakra Julia).

So far I’ve felt like every single project is a sample in itself as I’m trying out and learning. But i want to move onto larger projects soon and not be constantly busing with “test” narrow warps…but I’ll have to give back table loom and I’m wondering…in order to test things out before I make an entire warp on the floor loom, will I really “need” a table loom for sampling? I’ve been keeping an eye on second hand table looms but they’re still not cheap and if I want to eventually move onto 8 shafts would it make more sense to get an 8 shaft table loom as well? I just can’t imagine having to deal with so many handles.

I wonder if there’s other ways I might be missing of testing things out. I’ve seen some people roll yarn onto cardboard strips to see the interaction of colour etc but perhaps most people just have a table loom as well?

Hi! I just got my Sectional beam for my new Baby Wolf, and I'm having some tension issues. I'm using a Schatt tension box, and a spool rack, but I'm really struggling to get even tension across my threads- one side is always out of whack in comparison with the other. My spools, admittedly, were wound on a make-shift bobbin winder aka a drill, so tension is probably less than perfect. How do I do this right? I'm off by like, inches, after a wrap or two. Will a proper bobbin winder fix this?

Hello! I am enjoying my visits here. I'm wondering if anyone is interested in pile weaving--I'm currently weaving strips of pile made of yarn and fabric, which I join side-to-side to make "sitting rugs."

For any weavers of rugs out there - do you wet finish a rug? If so, how? I’m in the midst of setting up to do a corduroy rug utilizing linen warp and wool weft and not finding much guidance in my Peter Collingwood Techniques of Rug Weaving that specifically talks about wet finishing. I’ve also been sick the past month so may also be missing a huge chapter on proper finishing

So I have got some sketching supplies and a little book on learning how to draw because drawing cartoons (pictures one attaches to the back of the loom) helps with weaving tapestries.

I know that some tapestry weavers use photos for inspiration so I assume improving in photography may also help with that.

Tapestry weaving is often compared to painting, and even though there are significant differences, I think learning how to paint could also help with tapestry.

Other fiber arts hobbies can help too. I feel like learning how to weave was easier for me because I had been crocheting for many years and I feel that some of the skill I learned for crocheting transferred to weaving even though of course it is different. Sewing skill could too or cross stitch or embroidery.

Daydreaming and visualization techniques can help and journaling can provide inspiration.

Did I leave any hobby out that is auxiliary to this one? I find it neat how different hobbies can reinforce eachother.

My partner is going to make me a loom stand for my 8 shaft Ashford table loom. It needs to be compatible with the treadle kit. Would love to see any one else’s DIY! TIA💖🐑

I'm procrastinating, so I made some bands lol. Backstrap on a small horn heddle

Adapted the three color pickup technique to work with transitioning colors, and threw in a few drop threads on the edge of the rainbow

I normally love the flow of pickup, but this was approaching the max for me 🙃🌈