[Nfb-krafters-korner] Crafting Summer Camp in CT?

[Eleni Vamvakari]

I've done weaving on a lap loom and really enjoyed it.  I've also
worked on a wooden kind that sits on a desk.  It has bars etc, so is
not just the flat kind.  But I've never seen this one.  Can it be made
at home?  I'm assuming that, if I bought one, it would be very
expensive...

On 8/29/10, Terrence van Ettinger <terrencevane at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joyce, were you thinking of the warp?  Weft goes one way & warp the other.
> Think I need to see one of these to get it.
>
> Terrence
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> On Aug 28, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Well, I have several looms ranging from 1 foot up to 7 feet across the
>> hypotenuse of the triangle.  They are made of wood and some have nails on
>> the
>> 3 sides, but my larger ones have wooden pegs.  The standard spacing is
>> 1/2
>> inch apart across the hypotenuse and about 3/8 inch apart going down the 2
>>
>> sides.  That is the spacing between center of pegs or nails.  Now the
>> cool
>> thing is if you know anything about weaving you usually have to put the
>> yarn on a loom top to bottom and then you weave side to side.  Again this
>> is
>> the cool part of a triangle loom You use one continuous strand of yarn and
>>
>> when you weave it, you actually are creating your weft and     oops help
>> me
>> out Dixie weft and weave[that doesn't sound right][well the up and  down
>> and
>> back and forth]  being created.  When you do need to  add another ball of
>> yarn there is a way to do that.  It makes shawls  on the large one or
>> blankets
>> if you sew 2 triangles together.  I love to do  pocket books on the 3 foot
>>
>> loom.  You fold the triangle like an envelope to  make them.  I have
>> taught
>> the Girl Scouts how to do it on the 12 inche loom  and they made change
>> purses.
>>
>> You learn something new every day or it is a wasted day!  That is what  I
>> told my kids when they were growing up. is
>>
>> Joyce  Kane
>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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