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I just made my own back-strap loom (It's period for the SCA! Although mostly for South America and Central Asia. I'm calling it good for my Russian persona. During the 13th century, those areas talked to each other). It's super janky and made with whatever I could find that would work. The "strap" part started with me using a towel around my foot for tension, but then I wove a foot strap and am working on a back-strap to go with it. The major problem I'm running into is clearing the shed. The yarn (I'm using cotton) keeps getting stuck together with fuzzies. I know cotton doesn't felt, but I'll be damned if it isn't just as infuriating. And, yes, continuous string heddles are the devil's work. The whole set up with the beginnings of my back strap:  The part closest to me. Yes, my shuttle is cardboard. It's bajankety to the max.  The foot strap I wove: 
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That drat Satyr posted:This thread is a bad, bad thing. I just made a deposit on a new loom just to do tablet weaving because whoops my paypal slipped. My next backstrap loom project is going to be tablet weaving. Just as soon as I finish the STUPID loving BACK STRAP itself. I bought a rigid heddle off eBay and am hoping I can figure out a way to fit the 96 ends I have into the 59 spaces on the heddle. I don't know if that's possible. Please tell me that's possible.
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Feb 10, 2015 20:56
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Tried out my new heddle tonight. It makes opening the shed SO MUCH EASIER, but the weirdness I had to do to fit 98 ends into 59 openings means that the weaving pattern is all bonkers now. And I need some dedicated sticks for the tension bars. And I need a roll-up bar that will do its job. So, it's better, but still needs some serious tweaking and is what is on it now is not even a little bit going to work for making the backstrap that I want, so I'm just going to weave until I get sick of it and sort out how to finish it off, then chalk it up to a learning experience and plan a new back strap that has even tensioning and 59 ends and is long enough.
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Feb 21, 2015 04:14
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Pile of Kittens posted:I know they say that card weaving is just for bands, but how big can you really get? I'd guess whatever size you want, as long as you are willing to fool with that many cards at every turn. The band I've done is about 25 cards and 1/2" thick. I've seen bands up to 2" wide, and if you want anything more than a simple pattern, keeping track of how many turns each one of them has taken sounds like a very picky job me and my lack of attention to details would fail at miserably. If you are better at keeping track of things, you might could do as big as you wanted to fool with. However, I am no expert.
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Mar 2, 2015 22:33
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I'm trying to follow the instructions found here: https://sites.google.com/site/fibrecraftsza/contents/weaving-on-a-box for making a cardboard box into a loom. I started following the instructions, and so far I have cut a box down to size, marked off 5mm increments, and poked two hundred holes around the sides of it with a tapestry needle and a thimble. Now I'm on the third tool to cut the notches at the top. Sawing with a kitchen knife was garbage. Tin snips worked beautifully to cut through the cardboard, but the ends were too wide and kept tearing the tabs. Using the tips of scissors didn't give enough leverage, so now I'm using the very top of a pair of scissors. It cuts through the cardboard, but it's hard to be precise, and it cuts the edges more than the center. I think the holes aren't doing me any good because they aren't big enough. I need to add an awl to my tools. I have a dozen skeins of home-spun yarn finishing right now in its final rinse. I'll need to thwap it and dry it before I can use it for weaving. I'm not sure what to use to warp the box, but I'll figure something out. Pictures so far: Box  Box cut down, ends turned into flaps that are folded in, 5mm increments marked, straight line marked for depth, and holes punched across.  Starting to cut them. The first few starting from the right were sawed with a knife, then snipped with tin snips. On the long side, I finally start using scissors, and it's much less raggedy. It's also much less crooked and stupid.  And here's the drying yarn I've spun that will be used to do this weaving. 
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May 23, 2015 20:04
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That drat Satyr posted:I don't know exactly how much it matters, but for what its worth the few times I've used cardboard boxes for loom-bases of this sort I've had better luck using compressed cardboard, not corrugated - but that takes a lot of sturdiness away, and you have to be delicate with it. With that me this, you can just scissor the holes and be fine. It's done cut. I went after it with scissors a few slits at a time. Now I keep forgetting the warp at school (where I store all the things I'm not using at home these days and sometimes use them for teaching). I'm just going to take the box with me tomorrow and do it there. I started thinking about the shawls I'm going to weave on the 4' triloom that's half-built in my classroom, then got obsessed with shawl pins, and now I am sitting in front of a wire jig and making horrible abominations out of wire. Symmetry is hard.
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May 27, 2015 03:31
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That drat Satyr posted:If it makes you feel any better, I've been on a nålebinding needle carving kick. Bonedust everywhere! Oh poo poo for reals wear a respirator. Bone dust is dangerous. You prob already know that, but just in case. Forgot my box at home. Gonna take the string to it today. If I remember the string.
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May 27, 2015 18:25
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Working on warping my box. I finally bought metal tapestry needles with bent tips so I can stop breaking my plastic ones. I hosed up the corners, and now I am going to have to be Very Clever to figure out how to fix it. You can see how it's been pulled in and the left side is all wopperjawed and awful. I will macguyver a fix out of this somehow. Edit: FIXED! I never said it would be pretty. 
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May 29, 2015 05:53
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Weaving takes so goddamn much yarn. I love it. And it means I don't have to knit this bullshit ugly dishwater pink gross yarn I hated spinning but couldn't bear to knit or throw away. YOU'RE THE BOTTOM OF MY BAG, rear end in a top hat YARN.petecas posted:As a side note, is there an SCA thread? I see bits of one all over the fiber threads as well as the metal and leather working threads. Not that I've seen, but there totally should be one. There's got to be some more Goon-SCA overlap going on.
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May 30, 2015 03:46
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Progress on my box loom up through last Sunday (I've been in Kansas City since then, so no more progress). That drat Satyr posted:Finally getting around to weaving a little more. Sometimes I think being into so many different crafts seriously works against me, but... oh well. More card weaving fun! This is my first pattern out of Applesies and Fox Noses - the pattern is called Fine Crooked Knees with Small Applesies. That's gorgeous! I love it. I also love the idea of an SCA thread, but I'm swamped with other things right now, and my down-time is planned for crafts and resting. Give me at least a week to recover from this ordeal in Kansas City (everything is not up to date), and then we can start planning.
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Jun 7, 2015 04:13
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Finishing up the bag. Woven up to the top.  Bound and off the box. 
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Jun 22, 2015 06:45
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That drat Satyr posted:Cool now weave some straps. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE HAPPY FOR ME?!? ... What's your favorite card weaving tutorial? Will index cards work, or do I need something sturdier? ... I have a problem.
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