2/15/2024 0 Comments Diy weaving loom![]() There are other weaves we could make, but this is enough for now! This is called a plain weave, a simple over and under weave. Tip: Don’t pull the weft yarns tightly or it will distort the shape of the weaving. Note- Weave over and under the warp yarns one direction and then under and over the warp yarns the other direction. Then use the heddle to weave under and over, under and over back across the loom. Use the heddle to weave over and under, over and under each warp yarn all the way across the loom. Tie the end of the weft yarn to one of the yarns at the corner of the loom. Wind yarn around the heddle that you just made. This is a step that should be done by an adult. It is easier if you make a cut into the end and then cut the V so it doesn’t split the stick. Using a utility or exacto knife, cut a V out of each end of the stick. I used a large craft stick that looks like a large flat tongue depressor. We need to make a heddle, a device to hold the yarn we will use to weave back and forth on our warp yarns. Go across the loom, around one nail and then back to the other end of the loom and around a nail, across the loom, around the next nail and so forth till the whole loom is warped. To warp the loom you tie the end of the yarn onto the loom at one corner. The first set of yarns are called the warp yarns. If I do this again I’d put the nails in a straight line. We hammered them in on the two shorter ends. Hammer in all the nails on each end of the frame. This moves fingers a distance from the hammer! I use this technique when putting in small nails in other projects as well. Use the cardboard to hold the nail in place while you hammer. Tip: Push the nail through a light weight piece of cardboard. It is kind of hard to hold them as you hammer. Use small nails with a small head on them. Make the same number of markings ¼ inch apart on opposite ends of the frame to use as markers for where to hammer in the nails. Don’t forget the easy cardboard weaving loom can keep the younger grands busy while the older ones do this project.Ĭhoose your picture frame size. They will also need more patience for both hammering the nails and the actual weaving. ![]() They will need to be able to use a hammer and smaller nails. I wish that I’d made it larger to try some more weaving techniques. You can make this loom from any size wooden picture frame, my frame was 9x13 inches large. I started this loom then, but set it aside for other projects. This DIY Wooden Picture Frame Loom is a more advanced form of the cardboard weaving loom we made earlier. Though much more complicated, the technique was basically the same as we used with that simple pot holder loom. We studied fabrics and how they were made with weaving being the first method we studied. I majored in Home-Ec and my favorite class was Textiles. We had a pot holder loom when I was little and my brother and I used it to make many colorful pot holders for our mother and aunts. Since we made a loom from cardboard with an easy cardboard weaving loom I’ve wanted to make a DIY Wooden Picture Frame Loom.
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