International weaving teacher and author, Rowena Hart, shows how to create exciting and beautiful garments and home ware – all on a simple two shaft loom. In this book she guides you, step-by-step, showing just how easy it is to make your own unique woven creations.

In this revised edition explore more exciting techniques such as brooks bouquet, soumak, huck and superfine weaving using the second heddle kit. Ashford two shaft looms – the Rigid Heddle and Knitters looms – are simple to use, light and compact, and will open a world of color and texture for you. 123 pages.

Chapters

1. Warping the loom Colour and weave

2. Tapestry weaving

3. Rya fleece rugs

4. Textured cushions

5. Handwoven cloaks

6. Anytime jacket

7. Shibori

8. Silk textures

9. Different materials

10. Cotton towels

11. Leno lace

12. Bronson weave

13. Surface design patterns

14. Brooks bouquet

15. Bold and Beautiful

16. Second heddle weaving

ISBN 978-0-9582881-1-8

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From simple straight forward projects to more advanced. Using cotton or wool yarns. Good ideas to consider when weaving for baby.

From back cover: What better way to welcome that tiny new person than with a handwoven blanket? These beautiful and colorful designs will appeal to today’s contemporary moms as well as lovers of traditional weaves.

-More than 30 snuggly blanket designs

-Plain weaves and fancy weaves, for every day or special occasions

-Projects for both 4 shaft and 8 shaft looms

ISBN 9780811714112

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From Interweave Press.

Collection 14 Weaving for Baby Edited by Ann Walker Budd. Instructions for 13 projects. Projects include: *Windowpane Baby Sweater * Luke's Christening Gown * Primary Blocks Hanging * "Red Riding Hood" Doll Set * Baby's Clutch Ball * Dish Towel Animals * Rosepath Baby Blanket * Baby's Rainbow * Pastel Baby Wrap * Music Pillow * Cotton Kimono Jacket * Helston Furry Dance Blanket * Hearts and Petals Baby Bibs.

ISBN 978-9992855874

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Rigid-heddle looms extend a friendly invitation to all weavers, novice and expert alike. Crafters will be thrilled by the possibilities: satisfying tapestry and transparency projects, bead weaving and e-textiles, and dramatic finger-manipulated techniques. Adding a second or third heddle allows for more complex weaving, such as overshot, shadow weave, and very fine threads. Syne Mitchell’s essential guide explores the full capabilities of these tabletop looms, covering all the basics and offering an amazing array of projects.

ISBN 9781603429726

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Rigid Heddle Weaving Basics and Beyond, by Deborah Jarchow, published by Ashford.

Explore colour, design, and texture as you follow Deborah’s clear, step-by-step, instructions. From warping, weaving, trouble shooting and projects featuring plain weave to inlay and hand-manipulated lace this book opens up a whole world of creative weaving.
201 pages

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ISBN 9780958288187

The author spent four summers (1930–33) living and working among the Navajo, during which time she learned the principles of weaving. In this book she takes readers through the same process, introducing the careful details, the personalities she encountered, and the materials and methods of weaving in the Navajo style.
The spinning of the yarn, the dyes, the equipment, the weaving processes, the designs and colors, even the tensions and textures of the final product are all part of weaving a Navajo blanket. The author guides readers through each step, from choosing the wool through carding and spinning warp and weft yarns, building and setting up a loom, creating a design, and carrying out the actual weaving. Although the emphasis is on typical blanket weaving, the author also covers the related arts of saddleblanket weaving, warp weaving, scalloped edge weaving, double-faced weaving, and sandpainting tapestries. She also comments on history, patterns, symbolism, the effect of the market, and other matters that affect the Navajo weaving style. In five appendixes she reviews the implements and materials of weaving, Navajo materials for natural dyes, weaving terms, and simple lessons in learning to weave a Navajo blanket. Nearly 100 photographs and line drawings illustrate the processes and finished work.
Crafters, whether they want to start from scratch or gradually add Navajo elements to their other weaving skills, will learn from this book the authentic steps of Navajo weaving. Collectors, ethnologists, and others will learn more about materials, techniques, and related matters that will help them in judging, appraising, and enjoying the processes that go into weaving a Navajo blanket.

Unabridged re-publication of the original 1936 edition

ISBN 0486229920

Pattern by PDF download

Using Ashford Yoga Yarn weave some Tea Towels!

With this fabulous yarn, you can weave six (or more) lovely, fresh and funky tea towels from just 3 cones of Yoga Yarn. Follow link below to order 3 different colors.

These tea towels will be light, soft, absorbent and durable.

You will need

Ashford Yoga Yarn - 3 different colors (examples pictured)

Rigid Heddle Loom, 16” minimum width.

Reed Dent 15 DPI

Ashford Yoga yarn is 35% lighter in weight than the 100% cotton in an equivalent weight. Knit or weave your fabrics, jackets, pull-overs, scarves, shawls and home-wares which will have the bulk and density you want but at the same time staying light!. Yoga yarn has a nylon filament core completely covered by a cotton outer wrap! Get the best of both worlds: the strength and elasticity of nylon and the natural comfort and beauty of cotton! It is a 2 ply (two threads plied together) yarn - each ply is cotton spun over the nylon filament - the nylon filament is not visible and it will dye like 100% cotton.

Yoga yarn is 8/2, but looks and weaves like 5/2. You can use for your warp or weft or in any combination with other yarns. 82% Cotton, 18% Nylon core

Follow link below to order yarn.

Plain weave using Ashford Caterpillar Cotton Yarn.

Minimum loom width 24:

Using a 7.5 DPI Heddle and one cone of Ashford Caterpillar Cotton.

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Easy project to weave on a Rigid Heddle Loom.

Materials needed for one scarf:

100g DK weight wool yarn, Shown in Ashford DK

60g of Mohair Boucle Yarn (DK/Worsted)

7.5 dpi reed

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Weave on loom 16” or wider.

Weave in Ashford Mercerized Cotton 5/2

10 DPI Heddle

More ideas using this pattern: Image in orange and pink is using Ashford unmercerized cotton 5/2 and Caterpillar Cotton.

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Weave on Rigid Heddle Loom minimum 20” wide

7.5 dent Reed

DK wool yarn 100g 218 yards.

Warp: Black, Grape, Dark Red and Moss Green

Weft: Black