Class 01:
- Intro
- The loom
- Getting to know your loom
- Shopping for a loom
- Different band looms
- Shuttles
- Making your heddles
- Reading a plain weave pattern
Class 02:
- Warping
- Warping your inkle loom
- Tying thread ends
- Using the heddles
- Following the paper pattern
- Starting to weave
- Weaving
- Advancing the warp
- Making adjustments to your tension
- Adding a new weft thread
Class 03:
- Finishing
- Ending an inkle band
- Making even selvege edges
- Using a smaller loom
- Working with different thread sizes
- Taping your thread ends
Class 04:
- Pickup weave
- Differences in plain weave and pickup
- Understanding pickup patterns
- Warping your loom for pickup weave
- Picking up the right threads for pickup weaving
- Following a chart row by row
Class 05:
- Choices
- Reviewing pickup technique
- Working different designs on the same warp
Class 06:
- Notes
- Progress on pickup weaving
- How to figure out where you are if you lose your place in the chart
- Border choices
- Adding more colors
- Use variegated colors carefully
Class 07:
- Patterns, warping
- Weaving styles reviewed
- Differences and similarities
- Baltic weaving explained
- Reading a baltic weave pattern
- Warping your loom for baltic weave
Class 08:
- Baltic weaving
- Reading baltic weave from other sources
- Keeping track of your pattern rows
- Understanding the pattern threads
- Beginning to weave baltic weave
- Weaving
Class 09:
- Recap
- Plain weave, pickup weave, baltic weave review
- Assembly
- What to make with all your bands
- Hardware available
- Assembling collars, leashes, key fobs
- The end
BONUS
- Patterns
Open Facebook Group to students of this course:
Curious Mondo: Inkle Loom Weaving
Time table:
9 hours
Level:
Beginners
Target market:
Fiber Artists
Main objective:
To learn the basics of inkle loom weaving
Prerequisite:
None
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