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

[Laurie Porter]

Hi Jewel:
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.