Tape loom

Below are instructions on how to make a knee tape loom out of poster board material and how to weave a tape. Also, click here for information on the tape loom in the Hyland House collection. Make y…

What’s included: 1 - 8epi Heddle 1 - sami sword shuttle 1 - metal apron rod 1 - Take up dowel 1 - warp dowel with apron rod pocket 2 - loom sides 1 - loom back 1 - loom bottom 2 – ratchets w/covers 2 - wood washers w/covers (other end of dowel covers) 2 - pawls w/ covers and short dowels (there will be a total of 6 Covers, only 4 are shown in the image below) Warping instructions and a few patterns to get you started What you will need: Wood Glue fine sand paper or steel wool Black sharpie…

In the 18th Century, this type of loom was used to weave narrow bands of cloth - called "tapes." Tapes were used for straps, trim, ties, etc.

I have been making traditional, individual, hand-carved looms. My newest design is very small, carved out of one piece of wood. Two hundred years ago, these small looms were hand carved. Each one was an individual and became a piece of folk art. With its' uneven and worn slots, chipped and softly worn by years of actual use, the old looms are appropriate for reenactors and historians. There are still many of these looms in private collections and sometimes come up for sale, but many have…

At an SCA event a couple of weekends ago, a lady was working on a really wonderful small loom: She was making this fantastic brocade-type trim, weaving a straight tabby with an overshot pattern. The results were fantastic, and small...

This morning Bob and I left New Mexico and drove almost four hours to the little town of Van Horn, Texas. Van Horn is a town that has little to offer except a place to get off the road when you’re on the way to someplace else. We leave tomorrow morning for Fort Stockton, Texas. I wanted to share about my new loom that Bob made for me. On Ravelry, the inkle weaving group has been discussing Keel Looms, which are built using the plans found in the book “Small Looms in Action,” by Elizabeth…

This is a Jonathan K. Seidel handmade cherry tape loom that I received for Christmas. Jonathan lives in Pennsylvania, and he made this tape loom similar to tape looms commonly used in Colonial American between about 1760-1830. They are also called box looms. Tapes are narrow bands, ribbons, or trims that were commonly used in Colonial America. During the Revolutionary War and in early Colonial America, colonists were no longer importing goods from England, so they were making tapes, or…

Weaving a filled tubular cord with a weaving disc. This blog accompanies two articles in the Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. https://journalwsd.org.uk/ Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, 285 Spring 2023 A Weaving Disc - an exploration of history and uses. Part 1, and 285 2023, Summer, A Weaving Disc - part 2. What is disc weaving? I have been exploring a little known weaving implement: a weaving disc. The disc seems to have originated in Indonesia but also appears in Lithuania…