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Bands, Belts and Braids
Weaving narrow bands or braids has endless possibilities.

Beadlooms
Patterns and project ideas that you can make on a beadloom.

Cardboard Box Loom Project
You don't need expensive equipment to weave. A flat piece of cardboard or a cardboard box can easily turn into a loom that you can weave mug rugs, placemats or intricate tapestries on.

Handloom Construction
by Joan Koster--educator, anthropologist, artist and weaver.

Inkle Looms
An ever growing list of resources for inkle loom weaving.

Lucet Braiding
Instructions for using a Lucet to make braiding.

Mailing Lists
Lists of mailing lists and egroups for everything from braids and bands to dyers, felters and weavers.

Rigid Heddle Samples
Kat Walton has woven these samples to demonstrate the variety that is possible with just 2 shafts and a small loom.

Pin Weaving
What you can do with a piece of cardboard and some pins.

Rigid Heddle Warping Picture Show
Instructions on how to warp a rigid heddle loom.

Saami Band Weaving
The Saami are known for their intricate and colourful weaving of narrow bands, for use as belts and decorative edgings.

Used Equipment
Places to find used looms, weaving and spinning equipment of all sizes.

Aarhus Weaving Center
Rigid heddle looms are great for children or beginners to learn about weaving.

Ashford Handicrafts Ltd.
Inke looms are small and portable, used for making narrow warp-faced braids.

Basic Tablet Weaving
Sarah provides excellent instructions on how to do tablet weaving using an old set of playing cards.

C. Cactus Flower Miniature Looms
C. Cactus Flower Miniature Looms are designed specifically for weaving Navajo style rugs in miniature. Available in two sizes-the mini and the maxi-they have a unique tensioning system plus enable you to warp up right on the loom.

Gunnar Anderssons
Birch ribbon reeds, rigid heddles, flat shuttles, wood and paper tablet weaving supplies from Sweden.

Halcyon Yarns
Halcyon Yarns cardweaving kit is suitable for children and beginners. It contains 24 cardweaving cards, a shuttle and yarn.

Hand Weaving Company
This family run business in Wales produces weaving sticks, peg looms, corkwork bobbins and lucets.

Harrisville Designs
Harrisville Designs has award-winning friendly loom products designed for children, including peg looms, tapestry and lap looms.

Beka Looms
Lambs Ear Farm carries a selection of Beka Inkle and Rigid heddle looms.

Ri'illa Weave Loom-less Weaving
Rita Curry Porter and Priscilla Curry Hale have developed a finger weaving technique for making complete garments, gloves and shoes.

Twist
Twist - Tablet Weavers' International Studies and Techniques is an international group of tablet weavers who promote the appreciation of tablet weaving.

Weavies
A new book that features 16 projects using a Weave-it or other small loom.

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Handweaving Books

Weaving for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide (Peggy Osterkamp's New Guide to Weaving Series) Provides beginners with the information they need to weave in a clear and enjoyable step-by-step way. UK: Weaving for Beginners

The Handweaver's Pattern Directory Introduction to the tools, equipment, fibers, and yarns used with four-shaft looms, this reference features patterns for 600 different weaves, including twill, zigzag, diamond, herringbone, and block UK: Handweavers Pattern Directory

The Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns A thousand different patterns on more than 25 weave structures. UK: 8 Shaft Patterns

The Weaver's Companion (The Companion Series) Information on looms, yarn, methods of warping, drafting, troubleshooting, planning, and fabric finishing. UK: Weavers Companion

A Handweaver's Pattern Book A collection of 377 patterns for four-harness weaving, organized in groups of similar designs. This is one of the first weaving books I bought and it is still one of my favourites. UK: Handweavers Pattern Book

The Magic of Handweaving About the art of hand weaving, including the history and heritage of this timeless art, how looms work, what tools and equipment to use, the basics of good technique. UK: Magic of Handweaving

The Big Book of Weaving: Handweaving in the Swedish Tradition: Techniques, Patterns, Designs and Materials This book covers basic subjects such as warping a loom and making bobbins of weft, as well as more elaborate, highly decorative projects: baby blankets, shawls, table cloths, and linen hand towels. UK: Big Book of Weaving

The Treasure Chest of Swedish Weaving Complete pattern drafts for rugs, curtain, table cloths, towels, bedspreads. UK: Treasure Chest of Swedish Weaving

Hand Weaving Patterns From Finland UK: Handweaving Patterns from Finland

Keep Me Warm One Night: Early Handweaving in Eastern Canada Coverlets & other items, including clothing, primarily of the 19th Century. UK: Keep Me Warm

Manual Of Swedish Handweaving A comprehensive book on handweaving in general which draws on the Swedish handweaving tradition, looms, charts, diagrams, weave composition patterns, technical drawings. UK: Manual Of Swedish Handweaving

Swedish Handweaving 180 handweaving patterns for pillows, curtains, blankets, rugs: 4 harness twills, honeycomb, lace, rosepath, extended point twills, damask. UK: Swedish Handweaving

The Weaver's Book: Fundamentals of Handweaving UK: Fundamentals of Handweaving

Key to Weaving: A Textbook of Hand-Weaving Techniques and Pattern Drafts for the Beginning Weaver A definitive guide to handloom weaving: step-by-step instructions, intricacies of color, fiber and how to use them effectively. UK: Key to Weaving

Weaving For Worship Handweaving for Churches and Synagogues UK: Weaving for Worship

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age From the Industrial Age to the Information Age, connecting the loom to thefirst proper computer. UK: Jacquards Web

Mastering Weave Structures How to design threadings, channel the design power of the tie-up, and make the most of threading options, as well as understand fibers, setts, and color interactions. UK: Mastering Weave Structures

Favorite Scandinavian Projects to Weave: 45 Stylish Designs for the Modern Home A collection of 45 different furnishing textiles: colorful blankets, fanciful table runners, classic curtains, and embroidered hand towels. UK: Favorite Scandinavian Projects to Weave

Rug Weaving Techniques: Beyond the Basics Concise instructions and explanatory diagrams techniques for plain weave, twill and block weaves. UK: Rug Weaving Techniques

Weaving Made Easy: 17 Projects Using a Simple Loom The small, portable rigid heddle loom can be used to easily produce loose, drape-friendly fabric as well as dense, sturdy material. UK: Weaving Made Easy

The Weaver's Idea Book: Creative Cloth on a Rigid Heddle Loom Techniques include leno, Brooks bouquet, soumak, and embroidery on fabric. UK: Weavers Idea Book

Collapse Weave: Creating Three-Dimensional Cloth Collapse cloth when removed from the loom and washed, takes on an entirely different appearance as the threads draw up and create puckers. UK: Collapse Weave

The Weaver's Studio: Doubleweave How to weave a tube, and a tube within a tube. UK: Doubleweave

Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving Wonderful projects and plain-weave variations, this user-friendly guide covers choosing, setting up, and weaving on a rigid heddle loom. UK: Hands on Rigid Heddle

The Woven Bag: 30+ Projects from Small Looms (Writers Digest Guides) Each bag is created using small looms, such as potholder looms, frame looms and knotted mesh looms. UK: The Woven Bag

Linen Weaving

Linen from flax seed to woven cloth Learn about flax cultivation, processing and spinning, natural and synthetic dyeing, and weaving and finishing linen cloth. UK: Linen from flax seed..

How to weave linens UK: How to Weave Linens

Reflections From A Flaxen Past : For Love of Lithuanian Weaving Flax tools and faces from archival photographs; textile images and patterns. UK: Reflections from a Flaxen Past

Rug Weaving Books

Making Rag Rugs: 15 Step-by-Step Projects Step-by-step instructions for 15 rugs that are hooked, prodded, clipped, or braided. UK: Making Rag Rugs

The Rag Rug Handbook Rag rugs from basic information to drafts for 20 traditional two- and four-shaft patterns. UK:Rag Rug Handbook

The Braided Rug Book: Creating Your Own American Folk Art The classic guide to an enduring American craft - Beginners will learn about wools and other materials, how to care for finished rugs, and how to recognize a quality rug. UK: Braided Rug Book

Twined Rag Rugs: Tradition in the Making Twining done with rag strips is an effective technique for making sturdy objects like rugs, bath mats, baskets, and bags. UK: Twined Rag Rugs

Weaving Videos

Warping the Loom Back to Front - A DVD Workshop with Peggy Osterkamp This workshop thoroughly explores the process of dressing a loom by yourself, from back to front. UK: Warping the Loom

Silk Textile Books

The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. Tamara Hareven integrates historical research with intensive life history interviews to reveal the relationships among family, work, and community in this highly specialized occupation. UK: Silk Weavers of Kyoto

Silk Paper: A Guide To Making It And Using It In Textile Art the basic methods for creating silk paper in step-by-step detail to create flat and 3D designs, from framed pieces to jewelry. UK: Silk Paper

The Book of Silk Following the Silk Road from China and Japan through Asia into Europe, the story is as variegated as the rich colors, weaves, and embroideries that were used for the ceremonial or everyday accoutrements of the wealthy and powerful. UK:Book of Silk

Weaving and Dye Books

Woven Shibori (The Weaver's Studio series) Unlike traditional shibori, which uses stitches placed by needle on commercial cloth in the dyeing process, the "stitches" used in this new process are woven directly into the cloth, thus becoming part of the cloth's construction. UK: Woven Shibori

Weaving Books: Kindle

Small Loom & Freeform Weaving Kindle version Included are 30 small weaving projects, some of which can easily be completed in an evening or weekend. UK: Small Loom and Freeform Weaving

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