Little Looms

Easy Weaving with Little Looms is a perennial favorite. By popular demand, it will now be available by subscription. Each issue will have the mix of 18–22 projects, techniques, and features you love, expanding the focus on fundamental weaving skills, creative inspiration, and innovative applications. Each issue is designed to have something for beginning and more experienced weavers. In addition to the core subjects of rigid-heddle and pin-loom weaving, Little Looms regularly includes projects and articles about tapestry, tablet weaving, and inkle weaving.

EDITORIAL

Little Looms

NEVER SAY NEVER • I find it prudent to never say that you are not going to do or try something new, because those words just might come back to bite you. In fact, that very thing happened to me recently, and I admit that I am humbled and slightly embarrassed.

weave together with HANDWOVEN • Back in 2023, the folks behind Easy Weaving with Little Looms and Handwoven had a great idea: What if we were to host a retreat especially for weavers? One with lots of interesting classes, with a bustling marketplace, and where everything was included so attendees could focus on weaving and making new friends? Out of this idea came Weave Together with Handwoven 2024, and it was such a success that we're doing it again in March 2025.

INKLE… LACE? • Because lace depends on the presence of holes and is usually woven as a light, loose fabric where warp and weft can shift and leave open spaces, it isn't something we associate with bandweaving.

TRUE SUSTAINABILITY WEAVING A FUTURE WITH ATLANTA'S RE:LOOM • While on vacation to North Carolina's Outer Banks, Lisa Wise had an epiphany. Her organization provided safe, well-maintained apartments for homeless and low-income families in the Atlanta area, but the people it served needed more. They needed jobs—and what Lisa saw in an Outer Banks boutique led her to develop a weaving-centric employment initiative that's been going strong since 2011, changing the lives of families and breaking the cycle of poverty for future generations. They say the best ideas come about when our minds are at rest, so Lisa's vacation must have been relaxing indeed.

ADD IMAGES TO YOUR WEAVING WITH INLAY • Many of you who love to weave also enjoy creating images by drawing, painting, or photographing. Perhaps you've wanted to find ways to use some of these images with your weaving. There are many methods to make woven images, including tapestry, pick-up weaves, multi-shaft threading, and painting or printing on your warps. While tapestry is my preference, I've also inlaid supplemental wefts on a background of plain weave, a method I come back to from time to time.

FANCY FINDINGS • Master color theory with a set of clever cards, try a wooden weaving needle for hand-manipulation techniques, weave just about anywhere with a portable bandloom, and try out new colors with a set of mini-skeins.

WEAVING TO CLEAR YOUR MIND • As weavers, it's easy for us to end up a bit too focused on details. We spend time battling with selvedges, carefully checking the sett every inch, and generally trying to do everything as perfectly as possible. While there's nothing wrong with focusing on these details, it can also be nice to weave something simple and lose yourself in the moment. For times when you need to clear your mind and find some peace, Ellie Fisher's book Weaving as Art Therapy for Beginners has got you covered.

STONE WEAVING FOR DARKER DAYS

A BIT OF BLUE • These projects prove that having the blues isn't always a bad thing.

SPRING BLOOMS • Celebrate spring and the blooms it brings with these bright and beautiful projects in pinks and purples.

sweet & simple • Simple projects with big personality.

WANDERING WEFTS • Add some pizzazz to your weaving with these...