[Nfb-krafters-korner] blind seed beader and looms

[Susan Roe]

Mine is on an incline and will hold up to 30 warp threds.

Susan R.
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurie Porter" <freespirit1 at tds.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] blind seed beader and looms


> Weaving seed beads onto a loom is quite a bit different than regular loom 
> weaving. Here is how it works if you aren't familiar
> A bead loom is either flat or some models are slightly raised on a 
> incline. It has  2 round wood spools at both ends with bolts and wingnuts 
> drilled into them then a metal bar with little coils that resemble a 
> spring. The loom is worped by  tieing your warp threads on the bolt, then 
> inserting each thread between the coils as you work across stretching the 
> thread to the other end passing it through the ccoils on the other end 
> tieing them to the bolt and tightening it up by turning the wingnuts.
>  Once the loom is warped, you tie your weft thread onto your first warp 
> thread, attaching a beading needlepicking up as many beads as your warps 
> bring the strand of beads underneath the warp threads and gently push the 
> beads up so they rest between the warp threads and then passing the needle 
> through  the beads again to lock them in place. Then you push the finished 
> row as close to the top of the loom as you can very tightly    leaving no 
> space between rows. You do your next row the same way, but you are working 
> from the other direction. It's basically putting one row of beads on at 
> one time. ing word charts or word patterns are simply a row by row listing 
> with the color and number of beads you'll need for each row.  You can 
> easily convert any counted cross stich pattern for use on a bead loom. 
> There are also charts available for off loom beading stiches as well.
> Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jewell Boll" <jjboll at excel.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] blind seed beader and looms
>
>
>> Lorie,
>>
>> did I understand that you do beaded work on a loom?  I am totally blind 
>> and want to be able to weave again, but am having difficulty translating 
>> graphs into accessible format for me to read. any help?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> Jewell
>>
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