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

[Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]]

I am shairing a few old e-mails I found about beading looms.

Terry P.


-----Original Message-----
From: Laurie Porter [mailto:freespirit1 at tds.net] 
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 7:53 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] blind seed beadders and looms

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.


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