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Long Thread Media
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2019
Long Thread Media serves content for the handspinning, handweaving, and traditional needlework communities online, in person, and in print. The company was founded by Linda Ligon, Anne Merrow, and John Bolton to publish Handwoven, PieceWork, and Spin Off, as well as offer information, education, and community to crafters in those fields.
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Tommye McClure Scanlin, Tapestry Artist
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Tommye McClure Scanlin had a choice. To make the images she wanted to create with weaving, she could either pursue complex forms of weaving that rely on dobby, jacquard, and draw-loom technology-or she could go the other way and place every color and pick by hand using tapestry techniques and a very simple loom. Preferring a drawing pencil to a calculator, she made the choice that now seems ine...
How to Finish Your Rugs with Damascus and Half-Damascus Edges
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Looking for a clean and neat (and easy!) finish for your handwoven rugs? Use a half-Damascus edge for fringe-free rugs, or go a step further with a full Damascus edge on your fringed rug. Master weaver Tom Knisely will share everything you need to know, along with his trademark tips. Learn More: If you liked this clip, you’ll love Tom Knisely’s full course on rug weaving: How to Weave a Rag Rug...
Rowland & Chinami Ricketts, Indigo Artists
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Indigo is a unique dyestuff, no less so for being found in so many different plants. Coaxing the blue hue out of green leaves and onto yarn or cloth requires a combination of chemistry and skill that has arisen across the globe. Rowland and Chinami Ricketts each found their own way to indigo in Tokushima, Japan: Rowland was looking for a sustainable artistic medium after learning that the darkr...
Spotlight Episode: Brown Sheep Company
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Andrew Wells is the third generation of the iconic American yarn manufacturer Brown Sheep Company. Living near the family business outside Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, he grew up giving tours and sweeping the floors when his parents, Peggy and Robert Wells, ran the business. His grandfather, Harlan Brown, had been a sheep and lamb farmer before deciding to begin processing wool yarns, a business he ...
Kate Gagnon Osborn & Courtney Kelley, Kelbourne Woolens
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Working together in a Philadelphia yarn store, Kate Gagnon Osborn and Courtney Kelley learned how to help customers choose the right yarn for a project, welcome in timid new knitters, and create samples to help move yarn out the door. They learned what didn’t work (donut-shaped balls of yarn that hopped off the shelves and tangled, patterns that used a few yards of a 100-gram skein) and what di...
Starting an Inkle Band: Securing the Tail
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Start your inkle bands off right with this easy method to secure your weft. Use this technique as you begin weaving, and your inkle bands will never ravel. For how to end your band, see our second video: th-cam.com/video/2TVcb2_KdxI/w-d-xo.html Learn More: Angela K. Schneider is here to help you to inkle weave with success and teach you new tricks along the way. If you loved this tip, you'll lo...
Ending an Inkle Band: 2 Ways to Weave in Tails
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To secure your weft at the end of an inkle band, you can use either of these methods: First, you'll learn the most common method, using a tapestry needle. Then, you’ll learn a faster and more efficient way-no tapestry needle required. Both methods will secure those tails and leave you with inkle bands that never ravel. See our other video on how to secure your tails as you start weaving: th-cam...
Masey Kaplan & Jen Simonic, Loose Ends Project
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When Jen Simonic and Masey Kaplan’s friend lost her mother, she had the challenge of going through her mother’s things while grieving her loss. Among her posessions was something almost every crafter has at least one of: a work in progress. Jen and Masey had each finished projects for bereaved family members before, but neither of them could take on this one, a pair of crocheted blankets for tw...
Eileen Lee: From Quilts to Jeans to Painted Warps (classic)
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A career professional at Levi Strauss & Company, Eileen Lee learned about dyeing, weaving, and sewing on an international scale: giant factories full of loud looms weaving 2/2 twill, pattern pieces cut out of four-foot-high stacks of cloth, and no possibility of adding a tuck here or a dart there without retooling. During her years in the industry, Eileen saw major shifts in the market for the ...
Lilly Marsh, Custom Weaver
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Lilly Marsh creates blankets, shawls, and other cloth, almost exclusively from local wool. Working closely with farmers and the nearby Battenkill Fiber Mill, she gets to know not only her neighbors but the fibers they grow: the surprisingly lovely wool from East Friesian sheep raised to produce milk, the springy Dorset crosses that are popular in the region, and other fibers of the Hudson Valle...
Cable Knitting: Simple Mock Cables
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Join knitter Corrina Ferguson to learn how to create beautiful mock cables quickly and easily. This technique is found in the Chamfer Cardigan pattern from Farm & Fiber Knits. Get this tutorial as written instructions at farmfiberknits.com/creative-cables-the-chamfer-cardigan/. Find the gorgeous Chamfer Cardigan pattern at farmfiberknits.com/library/XwKzDEqsSsOA63r7AvQ2XA. Join Us Everywhere We...
Cabling without a Cable Needle: Right Twist Cable
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The Chamfer Cardigan pattern from Farm & Fiber Knits features many cables, including a right twist cable. Use this method from Corrina Ferguson to knit these right twist cables quickly and easily (and without a cable needle). Get this tutorial as written instructions at farmfiberknits.com/creative-cables-the-chamfer-cardigan/. Find the gorgeous Chamfer Cardigan pattern at farmfiberknits.com/lib...
Cabling without a Cable Needle: 2/2 Right Cross
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Leave the cable needle behind and use this easy method to knit a 2/2 right cross cable. Watch and learn this technique to simplify your cable knitting, and then apply your new knowledge to the Chamfer Cardigan pattern from Farm & Fiber Knits or any cable project you are knitting! Get this tutorial as written instructions at farmfiberknits.com/creative-cables-the-chamfer-cardigan/. Find the gorg...
Cabling without A Cable Needle: 2/2 Left Cross
มุมมอง 6643 หลายเดือนก่อน
Are you looking for a faster way to knit cables? Start here to learn an easy way to knit a 2/2 left cross without a cable needle. Apply this technique to the Chamfer Cardigan pattern from Farm & Fiber Knits or any cable project you are knitting! Get this tutorial as written instructions at farmfiberknits.com/creative-cables-the-chamfer-cardigan/. Find the gorgeous Chamfer Cardigan pattern at fa...
Annie MacHale, Inkle Artist
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The call of complexity draws some weavers to more shafts, more structures, more hand-manipulated techniques. For Annie MacHale, refining the techniques and celebrating the artistry of very simple bands has been a lifelong fascination. Starting when she first picked up a shuttle and inkle loom in her teens, Annie has worked in wool, cotton, and hemp, creating practical cloth that’s just a few in...
Okay, I visited the Dancing Goats and I'm ready to weave! Thank you for the instructions.
Enjoy and we'd love to hear how it goes!
apparently the Romans used these (not necessarily with backstraps but we don't know how they exactly did it, we just have the rigid heddles) so reenactment purposes is my main interest in these, real fascinating stuff
These tools are pretty unique and amazing, and even more amazing to see them in action today. Thanks for the note!
Enjoyed this podcast very much. Thank you. It's always good to hear other weaver's stories.
Thanks for listening! We're glad you enjoy them.
EXCELLENT video! Thank you! One of the things I do to open up the tops fiber before spinning is to hit the entire length with steam. I use a steam gun, but you may also use steam from a kettle. You want to be very careful, of course, not to burn yourself. It's like magic watching compacted roving/tops puff and balloon open. Thank you for this lesson in spinning directly from the fiber. I'm trying to move away from fiber prep such as rolags or dizzing.
What a great tip! Love that, and thanks so much for sharing.
Good video BUT you said you would show how to weave the ends in, but you didn’t. Not good for a complete beginner.
I found this very interesting. Amazing work. Thank you
This is so wonderful.
Ok! The rubber bands are sophisticated weaving technology! Thank you for helping me with my tensions issues. I have been having a hard time with the tie on stage. <3
We found that trick super handy too! Happy weaving!
Thank you so much, great video! :) Just a question: given that you know the lenght of the band you need to weave, how long shoud your threads be at the beginning? (eg twice the final lengh, three times the final lenght...?)
Great question! It greatly depends on the size of the warp and weft yarns as well as how densely you weave. Kate often adds about 25% take up for the band styles she weaves. She suggests making a small sample as she did here to determine take up. Then, you'll need to add several inches of waste in the front of the band (tied to the waist) and about 12 to 18 inches of waste at the end of the band.
This was perfect, excellent, exactly what I needed. I am planning to weave a belt for a traditional costume here in Norway, and I have never used this kind of loom before. I needed these basics before launching in to the more difficult pattern picking of the belt! Time to pull out my own handspun that I've never found a use for to teach myself the motions!
Glad it was helpful! We can't wait to hear how it goes.
I have a vintage crochet coat pattern, no matter how I try, I cannot get it to work. Can anyone help
Here's what I did for the last vintage pattern I worked on. I used the stitch guide accompanying my pattern to map the terms to their modern-day equivalents. Then, because it was a shorter pattern, I transcribed the entire pattern into modern terms and followed that as I crocheted. You can also find a local crochet group to meet up with and see if anyone has experience with translating vintage patterns. Often, getting a few folks together really helps. Good luck with the pattern, we hope it works out!
I say forget the loops and use the needle!
We're glad you found the method that works best for you! Happy weaving!
Excellent tutorial, thank you!☺️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Devin!
Devin is just wonderful, we loved these tips from them!
❤❤❤ Thank you for making this video, so helpful!
Excellent. Forget the needle and use loops. Thanks.
It is so handy to use the loops! Happy weaving.
Thank you. Finally a clear and helpful lesson for this starting part. thanks.
We're so glad it was helpful. Happy weaving!
how much would you sell the Ranch?
This is very helpful thank you!
We're glad it was helpful! Happy spinning.
Great information. Thanks.
We're glad it was helpful!
Great information. Thanks.
Great information. Thanks.
Great information. Thanks.
LOVE!!!!!!
Bonjour bravo pour la Vidéo. ! Je veux comprendre comment lire les patrons.. sur le vôtre dans la vidéo.. doit -on aussi calculer les fils de la bordure chaque côté ou c'est seulement le patron du dessin? Tous les patrons se lisent-ils de la même façon
The pattern shown in the video is one for Baltic pick-up and is different than other inkle patterns. If you want to learn more, Angela's video is a great resource: learn.longthreadmedia.com/courses/baltic-pick-up-on-the-inkle-loom. Angela also shared with me that her favorite book for this is Anne Dixon's "The Weaver's Inkle Pattern Directory." It contains lots of plain weave patterns and many specialty techniques including Baltic and other pickup with a good selection of charted designs. This is an excellent resource for anyone with an inkle loom. Happy weaving!
Wonderful uplifting spirit, enjoyed every minute of this positive, move forward, podcast!
Thanks for listening!
I'm a sewer and Nalbinder . Thank you for concise and easy to follow instructions ! many band weaves look very tedious with: turning cards, picking up and dropping the threads and going up and down with the shuttle thing that goes back and forth is too much for me ! this kind looks very beginner friendly . I would have to get the tools - but $30 for two items from the shop you suggested ? totally worth it !
We look forward to hearing how it goes!! Happy bandweaving.
How do you pass the shuttle through the upper and lower crossed parts of the warp?
The turning of cards means it's tablet weaving which is another weaving method. I have avoided trying that one. It looks too complicated to me!
This is utter perfection, thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed it.
I just love Annie and her work, she is so inspiring. Another great interview, thank you!
Thank you. Just bought the darning Loom. I am getting a friend to help me. 2 minds are better than one. I must say I preferred your 2nd option.
Enjoy, and we hope you have fun exploring with your new darning loom!
Can't see what she's talking about, a bit disappointed😢
You might enjoy checking out the show notes page for this Podcast episode: littlelooms.com/long-thread-podcast-annie-machale/. On it we've included links to go check out some of Annie's amazing work. We hope that helps!
Wonderful information, thank you so much. You have answered most of my questions 😊😊
Glad it was helpful!
This was Wonderful! Thank you!!!
How would you finish it if you were patching a hole? Is there a specific way or would you just have to make the patch big enough that you’d have fabric around the hole to weave the tails into?
It would depend quite a bit on the base fabric. There are so many variables that it just depends on the situation. Generally, as you say, making the patch big enough to cover the hole and weave the ends in is great. Luckily, if you are working a darning-loom patch over a hole, the patch stabilizes the area and prevents the fabric near the hole from being pulled and stretched. Happy mending!
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Nice video. I also have an Alex Ver loom. Super high quality item and well worth the minor extra expense over the cheap ones. The dome in the wood part helps a lot.
Great tip about the dome in the wood part! Thanks for watching.
I’m completely shocked that there are no comments here. Yes! Knitting saved my life. Thank you for caring enough to share. For all the drama we’ve seen in the knitting world, this should be shouted from the rooftops!❤🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
I have never used a Darning Loom. Can you use embroidery thread for this kind of darning, or do you have to use yarn? I found this video very helpful, thank you so much.
Great question! Many people who use these darning looms use embroidery threads, and it’s a fun way to incorporate lots of color.
Lovely interview, thank you!
Our pleasure!
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I have one of those wheels I love it
How cool is that! Such treasures.
Most fascinating and important episode ever!!! I would love to hear and learn more from SallyThank you!
We're glad you enjoyed it!
Very good questions as an interviewer, by the way. You brought out very interesting information with thoughtful questioning. She is a great example of a ‘degree not needed where a skillset is present’.
Thank you for the lovely note!
I am definitely a slow knitter. It can take over a month for a pair of socks. However, i am not knitting for socks, i am knitting to learn and becoming better at a hobby that frankly I don't need, but then gifting. Reply
It was very interesting to see the various techniques for carding. The way Norman Kennedy cards wool is exactly the way I was taught/shown some 50 years ago . Interesting to find it is the way done in Canada because my almost 175 year old castle style wheel is from Canada, still retains some original green paint with very faded red trim, has its own personality from wear, can be a bit cantankerous but still spins beautifully!
What a great episode!! Yarn Barn is my local yarn store, even tho we are in different counties and separated by numerous long term road updates on K-10 and 23rd street! I have taken many classes there, and i am never disappointed by what is offered for sale. If i need it, they have it! ❤
This was FABULOUS! Thank you for more info on The yarn barn!
You are so welcome!
Instead tieing, use looping method, will be very convenient.
We agree it's super handy. Happy weaving!
Thank you❤
Was gifted dusty beautiful suri fiber of a few different colors. Have washed some, and tried flicking other to see what might work best. Is so silky like ! Have spun it mostly straight suri and wondered if other hints . What was done originally where it is native to? Is it carded or just spun straight on a hand spindle....???
This article has some great tips in it spinoffmagazine.com/blending-suri-alpaca-with-wool/, and for more on spinning alpaca in Peru, this video from Nilda Callañaupa Alveraz has great resources on traditional Andean spinning methods: learn.longthreadmedia.com/courses/andean-spinning. Enjoy and happy spinning!