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.

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Little Looms

FANCY FINDINGS • When adding details to handwoven projects, the right tools can make it easier and more fun. Curated kits can help you get started in new fiber directions, and labels personalize your work and add a special touch.

FINISHES IN THE ETHNIC TRADITION

GEVOLVE metallic yarns • FROM LUNATIC FRINGE YARNS

TAPESTRY TALK: WHAT’S YOUR ANGLE?

SELVEDGE EXPERIMENTS

TEMPLE MATERIALS

CATENPILE technique • The rigid-heddle weaving journey often begins with plain weave. Later, many weavers discover that twills, overshot, waffle weave, leno, and even lace are possible with clever manipulations using pick-up sticks, multiple heddles, and other tools. Now you can add another technique to your bag of tricks, one that doesn’t aim to mimic multi-shaft designs. I invented a technique I call catenpile, and it is now my favorite way to weave on a rigid-heddle loom.

NOT SO PLAIN AFTER ALL • Accents such as beads, buttons, tassels, stripes, or darned designs are all ways in which we can enhance our plain-weave projects. Rather than settle on just one “extra,” I opted to incorporate all of them in this not-so-plain bag! Sized to hold a kumihimo disk, some yarns, pattern cards, braiding weights, and a small pair of scissors, it will be the perfect accessory to wear for my next demonstration.

NOT-SO-PLAIN BANDS

Color Pop! • Color sits up front and center in these projects designed around vibrant hues.

KODACHROME QUILT

PRAKRUTI SCARF

INFINITELY SPECTACULAR SCARF

NO DRAMA LLAMAS

CHAIN REACTION

A BAG FOR JANICE

CUTE AS A BUG PENCIL CASE

BOXED LACE WRAP

FIKA KITCHEN TOWEL

CATHEDRAL WINDOW BLANKET

Calm and COLLECTED • Leave the busy world behind as you weave using classic neutrals, calming blues, and other subtle hues.

ARABESQUE RUNNER

STRIPES AND SOUMAK

THE FRINGE ELEMENT

BUTTONS AND BLOSSOMS COWL

SQUIGGLE SHAWL

BUILDING BLOCKS BLANKET

CASUAL COMFORT

GOLDENROD SCARF

À LA CARTE NAPKINS

HIDDEN DIAMONDS COWL

WEAVING TIPS

ELEGANT EDGINGS • These three methods of finishing an edge are usually associated with rug and tapestry weaving, but they can also stabilize your warp and protect your weft in other types of weaving.

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