I’ve been thinking a lot about drafts lately. As many of you know, I am in the process of writing a new guide to the wonderful world of weave structure with the rigid-heddle weaver in mind. It is humbling and overwhelming work and I am eternally grateful to the Yarnworker Patreon community for giving me ... Read more| Yarnworker
To get the cloth you want, the secret is in the sett. Sett is the spacing of the yarn in the rigid-heddle reed. To guesstimate a balanced sett, where you have the same number of warp ends as you will weft picks, conventional wisdom has the weaver wrapping yarn around a ruler for an inch, ... Read more| Yarnworker
Yarn selection and sett are at the heart of what makes woven cloth great. When pondering the question of sett, fabric design, and yarn substitution, an underused resource by rigid-heddle weavers is a sett chart. A sett chart is a list of yarns described in generic terms, their yardage, and a range of suggested setts. ... Read more| Yarnworker
If your weaving pattern calls for a rigid-heddle size you don't have, try modifing the threading of your rigid heddle to gives you more options.| Yarnworker
One of the challenges of writing a clear-eyed approach to structures for the rigid-heddle loom is that you can arrive at the same structure with many different setups. This is true of many looms, but especially true for the rigid-heddle. Your choice of setup can depend on your available equipment, heddle block style, and personal ... Read more| Yarnworker
Creating Classes and Weave-Alongs For The Rigid Heddle Weaver| Patreon
A Creative Beginner at Rigid Heddle Weaving| notsorigidweaver.com
Determining sett by getting the diameters on a ruler is easy to do with a heavy yarn, but it would be terribly hard with a slippery, or nubbly, or fine thread. There’s a way to find the diame…| Peggy Osterkamp's Weaving Blog
My standard advice for managing selvedges is, whenever possible, place selvedges in a slot. This puts less strain on the selvedge threads and allows you more freedom to pick them up with your shuttle. If necessary, you can weight them using an S-hook or similar object. By placing the ends in a slot, you are ... Read more The post Floating Selvedges and the Rigid-Heddle Loom appeared first on Yarnworker.| Yarnworker
