To all sustainable fashion enthusiast, I am happy to share our latest handmade denim development- crafted entirely without electricity , frm Yarn spinning and dyeing to weaving.
This low impact process helps reduce carbon emissions while creating meaningful employment for our skilled artisans who work and live in harmony with nature.
With this weaving skill they can live a dignified life if the world even choose 10 percent of the timeless fashion rather than cheap polyester based mill made denims .
What are your thoughts

complete beginner here with nothing but a cardboard loom and curiosity, any tips/guides on how to get multiple layers when weaving a tapestry? like if it was a scene the sky on one, then the trees, then the foreground to really make it 3d

also, any tips on designing a pattern/how you transfer an idea from your brain to the tapestry?

This is my first weaving-type project. I really enjoyed making it!! I found the frame in the street a while back and all the fabric are bottoms of shirts that I’ve cropped over the past couple years

Finally working on it!

It’s made of yarn and canvas strips from Trader Joe’s bags. I’ll be cutting up more cloth soon to make strips for weaving. My hope is to mostly use canvas but I’ll likely use old sheets and clothing I no longer wear.

I feel like the most arduous part of this is cutting fabric. It takes hours. I can’t wait to be done with that part and get back to weaving.

I’ve never done this before. Wish me luck!

The loom is DIY made of cardboard. The measurements are 49 x 28.

You don't always need to increase and decrease stitches to shape a woven garment, like we do with knitting and crochet.

With woven pieces, there's another possibility: you can shape the garment by joining simple geometric pieces together.

I find squares are particularly interesting because they can be arranged and joined in different ways to follow the body. Instead of shaping the fabric while you weave, you can weave a pile of simple flat pieces and shape the garment afterwards.

And this opens the door to something I find even more interesting: unusual shapes.

It can also be surprisingly simple. You can weave flat pieces, make a pile of them, and then join them with a basic seam.

This Yoga Sleeveless Sweater is one example of this approach that I have designed: a few woven squares in a bright lovely shade, creatively joined together to create an original, comfortable garment.

I wrote more about the idea and how I use woven squares to design garments in this post: https://ullvuna.wordpress.com/2024/01/06/make-garments-from-woven-squares/

First Inkle Loom project ever is off the loom and waiting on hardware to become a camera strap for my camera. It’s been over a year since I sat down at any of my looms to create, so this project was just the right amount of fast and fun to pull me back in. Thrift store inkle loom ftw.

I struggled with my selvage the most, but finally found a rhythm with it. I was weaving WAY too loose the first 10-15 picks before I found a snug standard to stay consistent by.

Feel free to critique a la art school. I genuinely miss the honesty and the thoughts, ideas, and knowledge of others. Thanks! :)

EDIT: I used 3/2 perle cotton threads for this one

I've seen a few posts here showing industrial loom woven jacquard blankets and such. To own a jacquard loom is as someone said, "a tad pricey".

I follow LMRMChicago on insta. If you learn the software and take their operation courses, you can, IIRC, go in and weave on a big old honkin' TC2 jacquard loom. It's something like $50-$75 bucks a yard, depending on the warp they have on it, but if you want to do a one-of-a-kind woven panel this might be a thing.

I did a quick math in my head and to train yourself up, then rent the loom and do the weaving, it would be SOOoooOOOoooo much less expensive than actually owning a TC2. YMMV of course, but every time I see something come off those looms, I'm like maybe I'll get to do that before I'm 80.

Anyway-for all you really talented folk out there- check it out. And there may be other maker type spaces that offer big over 16 shaft looms for rent.

If I've got this story wrong, please correct me! But how cool would that be????

Happy Weaving!

At the Swedish History Museum. My friend knows I’m a weaver so sent this photo to me.

made a scarf for my boyfriend for my first project, leaving the rest of the fringe twist until I see him so he can see how cool it is!

second project is halfway done, too.

Is Double warping on double heddles on an Ashford SampleIt 16” worth doing?

I am new to weaving and got myself a secondhand Ashford SampleIt 16”. I LOVE the couch friendly size it is!

I want to weave kitchen towels, but I hear that they are usually wider than what my 16” inch offers. I also have heard that double warping 8/2 on a 10 dent reed makes some excellent towels.

Has anyone done double width weaving with a double warp? Or is it too finicky to attempt?

Or would it be better to attempt double width with 8/4 on 10 dents so I won’t have to double warp?

Thank you for your guidance!!!!

From "Spear of Heaven" by Judith Tarr