I spent 2 months hand-weaving my own wool fabric for my folk costume!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2022
- See how I weaved my striped folk fabrics by hand! It took me two months but I really love the result! Besides, I learned so much while doing this.
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1. That loom is truly an amazing feat of engineering.
2. It’s very impressive you managed to put it all back together from a big pile of wood, thread it, and weave so many meters of fabric.
3. It’s great to see you keeping cultural traditions such as these alive.
Beautiful job and well done!
Thank you! Luckily the pieces fit together one way only!
I have to hang my head in shame!! On my old Union Loom I had to thread 360 wire heddles (36 inches/10 epi) with my white, homespun 2-ply worsted yarn. I am almost finished with 6 1/2 yards of plain weave fabric which will be dyed dark blue for Continental Army coats. Historians tell us that in the Revolutionary War, mothers, wives and daughters had 2-3 days to make a uniform. Thank goodness I haven't had any fraying and breaking warp ends. A great video! It gives the viewer some idea of the work involved in the project.
That sounds quite a job. I would think that 2 to 3 days wouldn’t contain weaving the fabric! I think that the fabric would need to be dyed and felted as well to make it more waterproof. Not that I know much about the Revolutionary War uniforms!
that little bit of child labor brought back a lot of memories for me, as I was, and still am occasionally, the child that has to do the winding and placing of long wood strips (whatever they are called in english). Now I inharited my own massive loom from a friend of my mothers, and want to start weaving my own fabrics as well. Thankfully, since I grew up around looms, I come with a good supply of knowledge and supplies. I still learned something from this video, since I have never seen someone deal with broken threads like you do! I will incorporate that into my own weaving.You did very well, the fabric is looking great with very nice edges!
For the 'mistakes' you can see on the back, two things: first, as my mother always says, it's good to have a mistake or two in it, so it is clear that it was handmade, so it actually increases the value. second, there is a myth about people intentionally putting a few mistakes in their handcrafted works, because one cannot strive to be perfect, since only higher beings are perfect, so humans cannot claim to achieve it. Either way, a few mistakes here and there are very human and endearing in handcrafted items!
The hand woven fabric is one of my favourite part of folk costume. It's never exactly the same as anyone elses, when it's hand woven by different people. Like, my mother and I have folk costumes from the same village, but as different people have woven the fabric for our costumes, the colours and texture of the fabric is different, but the pattern is still recognisible as being for the same village's costume.
That fabric is impressive! So beautiful too. Love the humour you bring to your video, but keeping alive the history and techniques. . Really loved you showing that practice prevails and snags and errors can be fixed. Really loving exploring your channel. Thank you 🙂
I'm Polish and my grandma had really similar fabric to yours, also stripey buy stripes were only red and black. She never wove in her life but she lived in the time when you sometimes could get those kind of fabrics. I want to keep those kind of crafts alive, I learned tablet weaving, crochet, sewing and I want to learn more lol.
How brave to immediately go for the big loom! I'm dipping my toes into weaving as we speak, but I just picked up a small rigid heddle loom to try it out 😅
How lovely to have a folk/national costume to wear and even better to weave the fabric yourself! Congratulations on a fantastic project.
Thank you! And yes, making my own costume was very important to me.
Fascinating - I had never seen weaving up close. Thank You for sharing Your amazing work, and I'm looking forward to see this beautiful fabric made into garments.
You are welcome! I love sharing my crafty endeavours with all of you!
And some people complain about constructing Ikea-furniture :'D Amazing work!
Also love the utilization of the drill for yarn-spooling. Work smarter, not harder
Thank you! Even with the drill it took almost as much time filling the spools than it took weaving! That was a surprise to me!
@@withmyhandsdream That is very surprising indeed! Would've definitely been a crazy amount of spooling without the drill, then
Absolutely wonderful!
Your fabric is beautiful. My girlfriend has learned how to weave and has 2 looms: a ridged heddle loom and a smaller table loom, but gave up weaving because of the amount of time actually needed to warp the loom. Plus she keeps unusual hours because of insomnia and getting any of the rest of us to help was almost impossible. I love that you employed the use of "child labor" to help with the warping. I think I'll stick to an inkle loom. That's more my speed. Plus it takes up less room in our already too small apartment.
Thank you and yes, warping takes time. That’s why many people in here prefer going to a weaving centre where the looms are already warped. Of course, then you have to settle for those warps that are already there. But for those that want to weave rag rugs the warps are always ready for the weaver.
I just found you and am so impressed with your work. Thank you for sharing! I went to your blog and love the finished skirt and vest AND jacket!
oh my goodness!!!! stunning!
Thank you!
Amazing work ❤🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹❤️
The fabric you wove is beautiful. Isn't amazing what you can make with a pile of wood and some strong,? A job well done.
Thank you!
Really beautiful fabric. You're very skilled. Thank you for sharing.
such very competent and beautifull work
Thank you!
Beautiful work! I'm now itching to get my loom set up again - I haven't woven for about 10 years and my loom is in pieces in the garage. I look forward to seeing your finished skirt and vest.
That is a lovely countermarch loom. Nice small footprint. Thankyou for showing all of the things you have to go through before you start weaving. That is some beautiful fabric. 😍
I reassembled a loom for my wife several years ago. It was much simpler than yours. Kudos, Madam. And your fabric is wonderful. Magnificently done.
Congratulations on your new loom! And congratulations on finishing all this fabric. It looks amazing!
Thank you!
This fabric is beautiful 😍
Thank you!
What an incredibly complex project! So beautiful.
Love your videos! The bar between the treadles and the shafts (hold the heddles) is called a Lam in English. Beautiful loom and fabric.
Thank you!
I hope to be able to do something like this one day! I loved watching your process!
this was genuinely both fascinating and a joy to watch! i'm so impressed with your craftsmanship and dedication to your craft and cultural traditions/histories! 🥰the end result of the fabric is amazing and i can't wait to see how the whole folk costume is going to turn out!
Thank you so much!
IT’S SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So talented and encouraging. Beautiful 🥰 fabric and love the idea to just to give it ago. Thanks 😊 so much sending good thoughts and wishes from Katy from NZ
Absolutely amazing job!!
This was an amazing video!!! The fabric turned out so pretty
Thank you!
Beautifully woven!
Wow wow 😮 so impressive! It must be very rewarding to be able to weave your own fabric !
It is!
Wow this is amazing !
Thank you!
I that’s got to be very dense, when I started weaving wool depending on the dpi and the yarn size, I learned to leave a space between each weft to allow the yarn to expand in the fulling process, I also learned that a faced weft weave likes to curl if you beat too hard but your project turned out great so far, I love faced weft fabric but it takes so very long 😂
It is very dense but that makes it durable. It softened in the wash though and it’s still very suitable for a folk skirt. I didn’t notice any curling. Perhaps it depends on what materials you are using. Also my warp was super tight as well. The only problem I had is that if I didn’t leave enough slack to the weft the warp broke at the edges when I moved the stretcher. So everything had to be balanced very carefully!
@@withmyhandsdream yes, uniform consistency with the warp tension is very important. I built a rigid heddle loom out of old pallets and chopsticks and popsicle sticks, I learned to weave by building the loom, my second loom was a very improved version of the first one and I just finished building a 6 shaft attachment which converted my rigid heddle loom to a shafted table loom, as my skills improved in weaving I built more complex looms, next I will be building a 16 shaft floor loom. I can’t justify buying something for so much money when I can build it for free, but that’s besides the point, my point was going to be, I haven’t experienced the movement of beating such wide fabric so when I watch someone else do it it seems very rough or hard-hitting, the reed seems so heavy I would be afraid of packing down my whole weft on certain projects.
I have bought my both looms second hand. This one cost 100 € and has payed the money back already as the fabric and the rug would have cost many times that had I bought them. But weaving has been popular hobby in Finland, so there are always looms available. Most people weave rag rugs so the looms tent to be very sturdy and big. Smaller looms are more rare. But then many looms take space and people are sometimes ready to just donate the looms for free if somebody just comes and takes the loom away!
So lovely! Watching your video is NOT helping with my loom fever, I miss weaving and want to have one so baaad 😭. Every time I see one on Tori or others I'm itching to get one, but I don't have the space or time at the moment.
Your Askola costume is lovely, are you planning to make any more Finnish folk costumes? Now that you have the loom and all... 😉
Thank you and who knows! I had to put the loom to the cellar after the weaving. It took a ”bit” too much space in our living room. Right now I want to weave a square shawl out of wool. Luckily I have a smaller loom that I can use for that!
Can you sew this cloth on a sewing machine?
Sure you can!
What would the yarn be called?
I don’t know what it is called in English but it is this yarn: putiikki.brage.fi/product/30/karstalanka-brage-84