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.

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Invented by artist Lauren Puchowski, picked up by the Cooper-Hewitt

Photographed at the 2015 CLA Show by Jan Riser.

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…

In today's post, Janneken Smucker discusses Fraktur, an art form once popular among the Pennsylvania German people. --- Fraktur and Family Records Among the decorative items in some Amish homes—both today and in the past—have been ornamental family records, some stitched, some inked, some produced on painted glass (a unique genre that clearly deserves its

This is a Jonathan K. Seidel handmade cherry tape loom that I received for Christmas. Jonathan lives in Pennsylvania, and he made this ...

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It is April and Fiber Festivals start all over New England! Knitters, weavers, spinners, felters... we all get together to meet up and talk wool. Fiber festivals are fun family events. Families, older folks, reenacts from all era's. We touch the yarns, fleece, linen fibers, cotton rugs. We buy and trade socks, bags and clothing. We buy new tools.... combs, wheels and looms. I make band or tape looms for weaving colorful or plain bands used for trim and necessary drawstrings and ties on…

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...

I have been making traditional, individual, hand-carved looms. My newest design is very small, carved out of one piece of wood. ...

If I want to try out a band pattern or just weave something quickly I usually set up the warp and thread it onto my heddle at the same time. This isn’t the most meticulous way to set up a small weave, but I find it to be the fastest and for small weaves woven on my kind of heddles I find it to work

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…

When my friend, Karma, asked me if I used this trick, I was blown away by it's cleverness and wondered why I hadn't thought of it myself. I...