#tablet weaving

[leo-fie]

We all know existential dread, but I propose (and please tell be if this is already a thing) existential awe.

Sometimes when I handsew or weave or something I get this immense feeling of connection to humanity. People for thousands of years all over the world have sat down and sewn a garment. Archeologists find needles and awls all the time. When I'm tablet weaving I have the same frustration at the arduous process of threading the tablets as the person 2600 years ago must have felt when they made the bands that were found in a celtic man's burial mount not far from my home. They probably also felt their back after a few hours of this.

#thought of the day #existential musings #hand crafted #handmade #hand sewing #hand weaving #tablet weaving

[fungiwolf]

Finally done! I'm obsessed with how it looks

#tablet weaving #weaving #crafts

[perikrone]

The depth of the global textile supply chain that you get into as you get into increasingly obscure fiber arts is so wild.

You can start with knitting, or crochet, and there are *so* many choices for yarn and materials. Indie dyers with unique colorways, weird fibers from heritage breeds, and patterns for hundreds of lifetimes worth of hobby. You can even dive into spinning! Buy weird fiber from hobbyists and conservationists around the world, and spin things that you can't easily get otherwise.. Just those skills are enough to take a lifetime to hone.

But if you go far enough down the rabbit-hole, you're suddenly googling for how to compare thread weights between crochet thread numbers and weaving numbers, and is flax graded differently than cotton? Oh, I can get 20/2 and 60/2 silk all day long, but suddenly if I need 30/2 silk there are just a handful of results and wow I'll never be able to buy this again, is this a random mill in Turkey just selling cone ends??? And before you know it you have a note file with 10,000 Etsy links and Google translated half functioning corporate websites and you're trying to figure out if it's worth it to just see if you can import from this tiny store in Germany that seems to have a reliable source of *close enough* fiber for what you're going for, and why are you even so into *tablet weaving* of all things, why can't we just be knitting endless socks or something like that???

Love it, wouldn't trade it for the world.

#fiber art #weaving #tablet weaving #yarnblr #knitting

[himikochan]

Don’t know if anyone has seen this before but here’s a free resource that basically tells you everything you need to know for your first tablet weaving project

It’s a website from 2003 and is very easy to read and has no paywall

#tablet weaving #weaving #free craft resource

[trkkr47]

Absolutely awesome new tablet weaving pattern!

#tablet weaving #card weaving #weaving #fiber arts

[gardenvarietycrafts]

The first little sheep!

#crafts #description in alt text #weaving #tablet weaving #inkle loom #trans #trans crafter #trans fiber artist #trans weaver #sheep #sheep band

[trowelsanddirt]

weave with me ASMR

#tablet weaving #rox.thots #weaving #hand weaving #textiles #anthropology

[leveragehunters]

I've graduated to tablet weaving, which is inkle weaving but with a bunch of cards that you twist around to make patterns. It's a little fussy, but the results are completely worth it.

#weaving #tablet weaving #band weaving #inkle weaving #fibre arts #it's a hell of a rabbit hole! #so many gorgeous patterns - I even designed my own which I'm going to work on next #the blue and white is based on the vines pattern from 'Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice' blog #the rams horn is based on a rams horn pattern by Shelagh Lewis

[that-other-lesbian-ellen]

List of activities considered the worst:

Loom warping

List of activities considered the best:

Weaving

After some issues figuring out which way is S threaded and which way is Z threaded, and having to flip over the entire project, finally got this going! Then I accidentally flipped the pattern vertically 🙃 But now it's recognizable! I just hope the yarn doesn't fray completely apart before I finish.

Pattern I was going for and pattern I ended up with below. Intended for gradient of 10 colors and a neutral, designed by me using Tablet Weaving Draft Designer.

(The rainbow yarn was a present from someone who bought the first thing that came up on Amazon when he searched "yarn." The experience of tablet weaving with it is 0/10. It's using up the yarn, though. There should be one more diagonal of light blue, instead of the left most dark green diagonal, but I ran out of light blue. The neutral is leftover from another project. The loom was handmade by me.)

#tablet weaving #pro tip: tell your family exactly what yarn you want as a present

[dykepuffs]

I started this years ago and then buried my loom underneath a pile of other unfinished projects on other equipment. So today I did the last few dozen turns and cut it free.

I wanted it to look like how it looks when you're tuning a CRT near to a channel and the scanning keeps wobbling back and forth between different patterns.

#tablet weaving

[leo-fie]

This sheep tablet woven band might be the cutest thing I ever did. Probably because I don't do cute things often. But now I get the appeal.

#tablet weaving

[fungiwolf]

Working on my first tablet weaving on my new inkle loom that I constructed myself!

#weaving #inkle weaving #tablet weaving

[thackeroy]

Before I became bedbound for a year, which I'm thankfully no longer trapped in bed, I got myself started with learning tablet weaving and this is the first thing I made! It's super basic obviously, it was my first time trying it out and I'm very happy with how my progress was. Now that I'm able to sit up and weave again I have plans!

#project || first tablet weave #my content #weaving #tablet weaving #craftblr #crafter #crafting #queer crafts #trans crafter #crafts #textile arts #fiber arts #fibre arts #fiber crafts

[dangerphd]

tablet weaving is friggin magic 🪄🧞‍♀️🕴️

prompted by the note, edited to add:

#tablet weaving #cotton #handweaving

[ochipi]

This is going so much better than I thought!

#tablet weaving #fabric weaving #vikings #archaeology #history #field archaeologist #reenactment #traditional handicraft #Celtic #halstatt #inkle loom #inklette loom #card weaving

[ivorivet]

I got a copy of Tablets at Work by Claudia Wollny last weekend and really fell in love with the Diagonals section of the book. (It's also called Egyptian Diagonals in some circles, but I guess the Egyptian part is questionable so she dropped the term for her book.) They create a really cool, 3D like effect so I wanted to warp up an example for the tablet weaving workshop I'll be teaching in a few weeks. This is 20/2 mercerized cotton, and also my first time winding a circular warp on an inkle loom for tablet weaving.

I had two false starts but finally got it on the third try! I had forgotten that each square in the pattern corresponds to two picks, and I was doing just one before turning the tablets.

#card weaving #tablet weaving #weaving