#loom

② Weefgetouw — Knutselen — 2dehands

② Weefgetouw — Knutselen — 2dehands

cute little loom for sale

I had an opportunity to attend an estate sale this past weekend, that was advertised as being from a lady who had been an avid crafter, a quilter and spinner who had left her two daughter more craft supplies than they could use in a lifetime.

With that outstanding sentiment I packed up my car and drove the nearly an hour to see what I might be able to find.

What I found was a treasure trove!

The lady had owned and been employed in quilting shops throughout her adulthood. She had what seemed to be over a thousand magazines for all fibrecrafts, 3 spinning wheels, quilt squares and sewing machines and every bit and bob that you might need.

This was wonderful and I spent quite a time wandering through the arranged tables. I found some lovely magazines and some great books, some gifts for a friend who is interested in natural dyes and some things for myself.

The great win though was what I found in the final room, bins and bins of beautiful handspun wool.

I went digging and broke my rule of patterns before wool, but my goodness look at the finds.

They were quite reasonably priced but somewhat subconsciously I only took what I could carry under my arm! I left quite a bit there and wish I had gotten more but then of course is the matter of where to put it. (I’m making a trip tomorrow to buy a new bin).

There was also some unprocessed wool and I was very tempted, my partner was a little too supportive.

I told myself I wasn’t allowed to buy wool (or a spinning wheel!) Until I had finished the little amount I was given with my drop spindle. And I definitely need to use the drop spindle for a while before I decide if a wheel is the move.

I have some rough ideas in mind for all the wool, some for gifts and some for myself and we will see what comes about out of all of it. All of the pictures here also are taken on an unfinished quilt topper that I purchased!

As I left, a dear friend spotted tucked under a table the final item I had hoped would be there.

A loom! It came with it’s manual and I hope I am able to work with it with the help of some of the books I bought as well.

Overall it was a wildly successful outing and I was thrilled to have gone. I hope I am able to do this incredible woman justice with what I do with these materials!

all art is pretty demystified if you try it once. except loom weaving that’s some wizard shit

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Shadow Milk keychain

— Shadow Milk (fictkin)

I am having a conundrum. For my first ever warp should I use the slightly stretchy sock yarn I’ve already cut? Or should I go with non-stretchy pure cotton? This first warp is mainly for testing the new friction brake and learning How To Loom.

the vents provide a fun loom ragebaiting opportunity

Why are metal heddles like this?!? ;_; I have to get the loom set up with a warp in order to get the friction brake tested and working. And that means putting all the heddles on. The front two harnesses get a full complement of 384 heddles each. That’s enough for a full 12epi and 32" width which is the max the loom can do and where I’d like to get to by the end of the year. But for now? I have 768 heddles to put on and they refuse to cooperate. They’re continuously tangling and not cooperating while I count them.

Trying to help a friend ID an antique loom and all the info I have at this time are these pictures:

Any ideas gang?

Mini loom wall hangings with scrap yarn ❤️

red | green

Loom got! It needs a lot of love but nothing i didn’t know from the photos. We took the treadles off completely to move it due to the broken beam. I think the first step is finding a manual so I can label all the parts with painters tape as I deconstruct it for cleaning.

(Its in my garage until things are cleaned.)

Made myself a heddle, shuttle, and a lil hook for myself out of black walnut. Forgot to take progress pictures :shrug:

2026-02-09 update:

Wasn’t pleased with this one so I’ve made a v2 of my heddle design over here: https://www.tumblr.com/elder-goblin/808126424479350784/im-sanding-the-eyelet-stubs-to-give-them-a-smooth?source=share

2026-02-26 update:

Made a rigid frame too: https://www.tumblr.com/elder-goblin/809623527851425792/decided-that-i-needed-to-make-a-rigid-loom-for-my?source=share

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Here is the latest tapestry attempt. I made a little loom with a thrifted picture frame and some nails, and let me tell you, hammering nails into a wooden frame should not be as difficult as that was. It took way more force than I was expecting to actually get the nails in the wood, and some of them kept falling out, so I had to supplement with glue. And most of them are crooked and weird, but it is functional and that’s the important part.

I debated on what picture to do, and yeah, I should have started with something a little simpler, but I was struck with the soft shelled turtle (me? making a rottmnt donnie related craft? preposterous), so here we go. I did decide about halfway through that my loom is just too small to do something so detailed, which does mean I will be making a larger one at some point, because I have ideas. I do want to work through some of my problems first, like how to keep the wefts even at the bottom without pushing into the nails (which makes it a pain to take off), how to stop gaps between color changes, and how to weave in the ends in a way that doesn’t drive me nuts.

I’m still finishing the turtle, I want to go through with black and do some outlines and details, I’m just still working out how to do that without ruining the vibe. I am actually not that disappointed in it, though! I got a quarter of the way through and realized the mechanics of it all and was expecting this to end up a lot worse. Don’t get me wrong, it’s bit of a mess. There are a ton of gaps and the tension isn’t super consistent and there are quite a few places where I messed up the actual weaving part, but overall, I’m pretty proud of it for a first attempt.

I was lying in bed at like 9 pm, pleased that I was going to sleep at a decent time since I had a dr’s appointment early the next day, when my brain suddenly and adamantly said “this is how a loom would work, theoretically” followed by “I could make a cardboard loom and weave a tapestry”, and could I have ignored the impulse? Maybe. Did I? No.

The first iteration of the loom was actually a lot jankier and I used some scrap yarn just to make sure that I did actually know how weaving worked (which I did), and then I made this version. I did exactly 1 google search on how to weave, watched like 2 youtube shorts that did not have any explanations just the visual, and then decided I actually could figure it out on my own. So then I made a minecraft tulip! It’s not great, and it’s not very good technique, but I accomplished my goal!

I have since done research and made a sturdier loom and I am planning on redoing this one, but I’m still working some stuff out and trying new things, so we’ll see when I get to it.

In the meantime, I’m having a lot of fun working this stuff out. I do think it’s kind of funny, cause I have refused to learn to crochet, I know that it is absolutely the kind of craft I would enjoy, but I feel like that’s crossing a line somehow, like a point of no return. Which is silly because I am literally teaching myself how to weave, if there was a point of no return, I passed it eons ago. Oh well!

Funniest reveal in a Clair Obscur sequel would be that the games take place in the Loom universe

theoretically, if one were to buy a small-to-medium table loom, would a shuttle race be an important feature? I imagine it’s very useful for bigger sizes - or is that one of those things that are nice to have but overhyped