How to Fix Your Selvedges and Achieve an Even Beat
I’ve taught a fair amount of beginning weaving on rigid-heddle and floor looms, and I’ve noticed that many beginners are self-critical about their selvedges and beat.
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I’ve taught a fair amount of beginning weaving on rigid-heddle and floor looms, and I’ve noticed that many beginners are self-critical about their selvedges and beat.
I'm weaving a double-wide baby blanket in doubleweave, and I was wondering how to achieve a smooth fold. Should I use a temple?
We all know that weaving terminology is confusing. One beginning weaver wrote a poem about all the weaving terms she learned at The Weavers' School!
I think most of us can relate to having what seems like a great weaving project fall apart on the loom. Here is Elisabeth Hill's first post about that experience.
Is weaving with temples more time consuming because you have to keep advancing the temple? and does using one create a straight selvedge?
Broken warp threads at the edges aren't usually a problem for me. When they do occur, I understand that the breakage is probably due to draw-in.
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In a Weaving Today Q & A, a weaver asked about using fishing line for neat selvedges. What thickness fishing line is best?
I’m trying to work on my selvedges. I’ve heard that you can get better, stronger selvedges by setting the warp threads denser at the selvedge edges.
When is it too late to start using a temple? Madelyn explains to a reader how to salvage her much-too-drawn-in selvedges!
In essence, you are asking whether weavers really need to use a temple.
Selvedges are always a concern to weavers, even though most non-weavers would never notice what we consider to be terrible flaws.