Harvest what you craft

  Graph paper notebooks are perfect notebooks for high school math students and weavers alike.  Flipping through them is a colorful ride of our personal weaving story.  Sometimes toting the journal is not appropriate for some (portable) projects.   Since I do a lot of back strap band weaving I prefer to print out some graph paper for portability.  Later I will glue it in my notebook for record/reference sake.  It happens a lot the the weave disappears before I can take a picture of it.     Here is what I have found so far to better one of the better...

Double slotted heddles come usually with different numbers of slots across the heddle.  But this one, our original design, comes with two sections.  It makes really nice bands that look like two bands together.  Since it is a couple of 5 pattern strings its very fast.  The band above is all wool from my favorite wool mill, Paces vilnafabrika.  They wash the wool in the traditional way, pond water and some salt.  That way it preserves 70% of the lanolin.  The greatest part about the wool is in this.  It is what makes it warm, antibacterial/microbial and repels dirt and...

Here are some pattern drafts for bandweaving.  These are for weaving with 5 pattern strings.  They can be mixed and matched and adopted with to many weaving styles.  I use it with a double slotted rigid heddle.  Here are more pattern drafts.

I have floor looms, table loom, inkle looms, etc.. but the one you will find me most on is a backstrap rigid heddle loom.  Its just so nice that you can take it anywhere and weave. also easy to set up. Over the years i have been spotted in the airport, parks, cafes, and the best, the car!  The car, you dont believe, well I took the suction from the GPS and hooked onto that.  Now I love being the passenger because every time we visit friends or go to the capital I can weave a band.  One can never...

The 5 pattern bands are cranking out these days. Why?  Its just so easy to get in the rhythm with 5 strings.  Im starting to think its just as fast as plain weave.  here are a few drafts to color up your bands with.  There are more available to download here A complete loom setup ready to weave is on the shop as well. The band above is linen background warp, as well as the borders and weft.  The colors are in wool.  That is the traditional band material in Northern Europe.  In Latvia and the other Baltic countries you will find weavers...