I’m a crocheter looking to begin weaving. This was at the thrift store with the yarn and knitting materials. Is this a loom?

I started working on the reverse of my knitting, but knit each thread individually into the weave is gonna be many days of work.

Someone knows some other technique to speed up this part of the process?

Some of my favourite gloves, that I just fixed up.

Like, literally painful. I’ve used up a whole mini tub of carmex as wax (the tutorial video I’m referencing used vaseline so I figure carmex is close enough). It is taking so much force to get these wooden screws in through the holes and my hand started to blister a bit! I had to go find gardening gloves to get some more grip on the screwdriver handle.

I think the salt on the wound is thinking about the price point of this item and really wishing it came assembled lol. I know I know, the knitter’s loom comes assembled but the 10” Sampleit is coming together bit by bit, with my blood sweat and tears

need to research what type of fabric

I'm brand new to weaving, but I've been a crocheter for about 15 years, so I'm not new to working with yarn. In almost every weaving teaching video I've watched so far, they either specifically say to use, or just use, a thinner yarn for the warp than the weft.

I'm just curious why. Is it structural, stylistic, just beginner-friendly, etc.?

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Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit. Sorry if this is not the case.

I’m looking for advice from people experienced with digital weaving and jacquard simulation.

I have a finished digital illustration, and I want to transform it so that it looks as if it were woven on an East-Asian style jacquard loom (Chinese brocade / yunjin-type aesthetics). Specifically, I’m trying to replicate the look of jacquard woven on a satin ground, where:

the warp threads are a single dominant color, and

the motif’s colors and shading are created primarily by the weft yarns, as in traditional Chinese weaving.

What I’m looking for is a tool or workflow that can:

take a flat image,

convert it into something that visually resembles satin-based jacquard weaving,

automatically generate realistic warp–weft texture, weft-dominant coloration, and short floating wefts,

without manually painting individual threads.

Important note: I do not intend to produce an actual jacquard weave. I only need a convincing visual simulation because the final output will be printed onto fabric, not woven. The goal is simply to achieve the look of East-Asian jacquard/brocade without the cost of real loom production.

If anyone here has experience with ArahWeave, Pointcarre, ScotWeave, NedGraphics, WveCAD, or even AI/ControlNet/Photoshop workflows that can create this effect, I would really appreciate your recommendations.

TIA!

Hello!

Earlier this year I acquired a loom that came with a couple of cones of this. I looked on the inside but it wasn’t labeled and I can’t figure out what it is. Is it silk, or some type of synthetic fiber?

Thank you!

I’ve been playing around with an idea for a summer weighted blanket made entirely from wooden beads instead of fabric and filling.

The idea is to make it heavy enough to give that weighted blanket feeling, but with lots of open space between the beads so air can flow through and it doesn’t trap heat. I made a small sample (photo attached), and honestly the feeling on the skin is surprisingly nice — cool, smooth and almost like a gentle massage.

I’m thinking of making a full-size version next.

Curious what you guys think — does this sound like something you’d actually use? Any obvious downsides I’m missing? And roughly how much would you be willing to pay for something like this if it was well made?

I’m itching to start a craft new to me - can’t decide if I want to try knitting or weaving. Of course, I can try both but I have to start somewhere.

Help me self-identify. Am I more of a weaver or more like a knitter? What are the distinctive characteristics or traits of one vs the other? Interests or skills or talents? What distinguishes one as opposed to the other?

Of course I’m asking you to opine and generalize. And I’m sure many of you do both. Still, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Afghan Girl (famous photo)

(Copied from wiki) Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic.

This is a photo about compassion for refugees, something that we need more of at this time as well. The subject of this photo was only 12 years old when this photo was taken - she looks so much older! She was not identified as Sharbat Gula until 2002, and was unsurprisingly angry that the photo had been published without her permission since this went against her culture. So this photo is also about respect for others’ culture or lack thereoff. She apparently then accepted this after finding out that many people got inspired to help refugees in response to her photo. She did return to Afghanistan. When the Taliban took over, they went after women who were publically known, and so thanks to this photo she was in danger, and was evacuated to Italy.

This is my second woven portrait. I still have room for improvement, but overall I am pleased with how it turned out. I do not like how wavy the fabric is due to some of my mistakes, so I plan to attach this tapestry to a stiff felt backing before hanging it up and stretch it out on that.

The tapestry is about 7.5 inches wide and 10 inches tall. It is woven using Faro wool. In some places I used two colors together as one.

For the face and hair I used embroidery in addition to weaving: 1. I did not like the mouth that I originally embroidered which was too purple and looked bruised but I only decided to redo it much later, so I stitched over it. 2. The facial skin colors had too much contrast and some parts were too dark so I used stitches to make the contrast softer. 3. The hair I actually intended to embroider from the get go and so I did.

I got this throw for my girlfriend but want to know when it was made for it said vintage but I can’t find a “vintage” date to coincide with me telling her it’s vintage lol.

Any help is appreciated!

There's a current thread there right now that's basically titled "I made a mistake; can anyone tell me exactly how to replicate it because I like the result" and the VAST majority of people seem to think that "you fucked up" is the best answer. Sigh.

For poetic reasons, I need to know if a 100% cotton rag is woven into existence or threaded. Is there a difference? I googled it and, even with all the AI crap, it kept popping up rug or just non-useful definitions.

I'm picturing a cheap, everyday, mass-produced Walmart-type cloth, or maybe whatever they might have used before polyesters and such. So no thick waffle weaves, handmade Etsy-type cloths, etc.

I just want something cheap and works well. Any beginning patterns and recs?

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