Next time I grumble about working and hiding loose ends into my knitting or crochet I'll have to remind myself what weavers go through just to start a project. Y'all are hard core!

My great aunt use to had a loom that encompassed a whole room. She use to weave wool blankets. The whole town was involved in wool production/weaving. It was very interesting seeing the weaving in the giant loom very similar to this one but much larger. Most of the weavers had varicose veins from years of weaving. Last time i visited her town I was disappointed to learn the local industry had dried up and most of the looms had disappeared.

My first loom video ever, I am confused and frightened

My aunt came to spend some time in my house in Switzerland to recover from an accident . I was glad to have her around and she told me that she would just be in her room looming and hoped she wouldn't be an inconvenience to anyone.I thought, what a silly lady, as if she could inconvenience me in any way, i adore her. And then 3 days before she arrived I received the Jack loom that my uncle sent me with a little note saying "Nope this is not a bed" . I spent 2 days just to put it together for my aunt as she couldn't move much, and was relieved beyond belief to see it had no electric device attached to it , and therefore wouldn't make any noise ( i grew up next to a jacquard factory and the noise is one of my most vivid childhood memory). Then she asked me if i could help her with the setting up and preparation like on this video . And of course as a good nephew (and father) i sent my kids to help her . Four days later she told me that she was ready to start looming , (my kids were relieved) and just out of curiosity i asked her what she was going to loom , and she casually answered , "a bedspread for you", so i casually answered "Oh how sweet of you Auntie " wondering how many weeks or months it took to loom a bed spread , and how beautifully it would match my very minimalist Japanese style bedroom . She wanted to show me what design and colour she was going to use, so i went to the room and checked the loom with her and tried to smile when i noticed that she decided to use orange , purple, blue, yellow and brown as a colour combination , realizing that my aunt still lived in the 50s with a hint of 70s and clearly thought the rest of the world did too. And then after about 2 weeks of looming something magical happened . One of my kids forgot to close her bed room's door and 5 lovely 3 months old kitten and their mother, ventured into auntie's room, decided that this was christmas and that their present was an amusement park . When auntie came back from a long walk (roll) in the park and a break at the coffee shop, she went back to her room and the next thing i heard was chaos coming from her room and a lot of yelling. But the funny thing is that far from being angry she just said that since the cats loved it so much , instead of a bedspread , she was going to make flat large cushions for the cats to sleep on . My bedroom remains japanese , the cats all have lovely brown, purple, yellow orange and blue cushions to sleep and lounge on and i do miss having auntie in the house as she truly is one wonderful lady . But she got the last word because when she told me that she would be leaving in a few days i asked her to just let me know when she wanted me to help her packing up the loom and send it back . To which she answered "I have another one back home, can i leave this one here so that next summer when i visit with your mother and grand mother we can all work together on it , i promised you a bedspread and a bedspread you will have" . "Of course auntie but just let me know how many kilometers of yarn you need and let me buy it " (read "let me chose the colour"). And now it's been months that this loom is in the room and i am getting more and more intrigued by it and here i am trying to find out how to use it ! It really grows on you !

1 week later..."so that's how easy it is to warp your Jack Loom"🤯 Shout out to the person that invented this tho, you're the real MVP here

Nearly 8 mins of sped-up preparation later: “So now we’re ready to weave!” Absolutely fascinating and so involved-I have such admiration for the skill involved in just preparing the loom, let alone the weaving!

I don't weave, just found this video per chance...but wow! Now I want to learn! I just love watching talented people and their crafts! 😍

Totally AWE inspiring to want to purchase and learn this! HOWEVER after watching the video, I was gritting my teeth and needing a cocktail at 4:45 in the morning! lol. I cannot imagine how many years it took just to learn how to do this without looking at the instructions. Just BEAUTIFUL! Richard

When you said that’s how easy it is I nearly died I don’t wanna see a hard one

"and that's who easy it is" omg that's not easy you're amazing!!!!!

I'm no expert, but this must be somewhat related to programming! The way she "programmed" the loom to make those small heart designs is amazing

Hello Kate (and company)! I know exactly zero about what you were talking about, I just wanted to see how loom weaving was done… but I must say, you are so incredibly talented, and I cannot believe this is out there for free for those who DO understand it! Also, you have the most calming voice, I could watch you for hours!! Thanks!

Totally fascinating. I see a piece of woven fabric, and never realize how truly complex it is. Maybe I'll have the patience one day to try it myself!

Thanks for showing us this. My mind went blank when I went to dress my loom. Thanks for coming over at just the right time and helping me!

The actual math at play here with, basically, a binary setting (thread over or under, up or down, 1 or 0), with 8 shafts that can be activated in 10 different configurations by the pedals is quite fascinating. Spent some time doing calculations on how many unique, non-repeating patterns (symmetrical and non-symmetrical) you can have on this set up.

I learned weaving on a rigid heddle jack loom in high school. I’m 20 years old and I know how very very lucky I am to share this passion with my ancestors. This really is fairly easy to do.

I crochet. I THOUGHT weaving would be something I'd like to try. I was wrong. Lady, you are a champion of my heart! 😍

No idea what's going on but it's fun to watch

It's like building a piano every time you want to compose a piece. Amazing!

What a great demo! It really is much easier the way you put on the warp! I love the raddle cross and that you use the raddle in the back instead of the front. I couldn't believe how much easier it was to put the warp on. I have the Ashford Jack and just love it! Thank you so much for the tips!

Awesome loom, way to go, Ashford! So many little improvements and innovations that when added up just make the weaving process so much more pleasurable. Love the use of the Texsolv, for both the heddles (good-bye, noisy Jack-Loom!) and the tie-on bars. I'd say it was worth the wait, Ashford got it right with this one. And as always, Kate, you show it to it's best advantage, making the whole process seem clear, user-friendly, and stress-free. Hope Ashford knows what a treasure you are! Love the new hair! Now, hmm... I wonder where The Jack can be fit into my already loom-crammed house...?!

Want to thank you for all of your very clear videos and your generosity with the weaving draft - I've gone from a 4 to an 8-shaft loom, and am excited to weave this!

SOOOO helpful, thanks Kate. I have only just got myself a Jack Loom and ready to start my first project (a really simple 3 shaft design to help me learn how to use a floor loom). I'd have been lost without this video. Looking forward to the day when I can use it to make something like you have here - gorgeous!

I feel like a stick figure artist watching a Leonardo paint. So beautiful. I only have a little table top rigid heddle loom. I had a string heddle loom once long ago but it was well beyond my skill set and a homebuilt that demanded a high skill level. The one I have now is my speed, LOL Maybe some day I can have a beauty like yours. Meantime please never stop weaving rainbows!

I had no idea weaving was so phenomenally complex.... I was having a little chuckle to myself about how massive the knot would be if I was allowed anywhere near that much thread when I hear, “that’s how easy it is!” Seriously?!? I’ve new respect for weavers, they’re clearly the master race 😉

WOW I had no idea that's how weaving is done 😲 I'm just so impressed, much admiration for weavers 👏

Hello Jesica, my name is Ziyoda. I live in Uzbekistan. I am 46 years old. There is a very good reason for the products you make on your desk. The work efficiency is very high I all liked it.

I dropped my jaw so hard that it broke the floor. I absolutely LOVE watching these videos, they get right into my artisan heart :3

Brilliant video. Shows all the steps needed to warp the loom, and weave. Lovely loom.

My eyes are super big looking at this video let me say first I am not a weaver.. this video I did not search for, it appeared on my KZfaq feed. I am naturally curious and wanted to see how this was done. Beautiful loom I have no idea how this invention happened or was figured out but wow! The. The putting it all together with all the steps NOT EASY lol this looks like a life time of learning which is inspiring. Gorgeous not sure what she was making there but gorgeous and.. love your hair what color is it and those boots where did those come from. Needless to say ♥️♥️😘😘👍this whole video!

I stumbled on this video somehow. I never knew making a cloth using a loom is so complex. All you guys in text industry are really great. Esp the one who invented the very first loom for making beautiful clothes. Although these days it's worthless after making with machines. Bottom line what a concentration and memory and dedication. Good job guys.

No idea how I got here, but this is fantastic. I don't have the patience to do this. Love how you say: "That's how easy it is." Hahaha

Excellent video! Can we take a minute to appreciate how fabulous those boots are though?

I have a rigid heddle loom that I absolutely love and before I even received my loom I was watching your videos it made me to want to learn more. Your voice is so calm and mesmerizing I could listen to your instructions all day thank you very much for making the videos

Three days later when you've finally set it all up.....

Wow. The level of necessary preparations is just insane. To think that this has been done more or less the same way for centuries is nausiating! Wonderful to see that this craft is not dead!

Absolutely stunning!! Brought back all the weaving day's memories :)

I love the pattern she weaves!!! Also, really loved the fact she has a spinning wheel in the backround!!!

Oh my God how it's sweet and easy, this is the best loom construction I'd ever seen before!

This has peeked my interest in doing more creative work this year. Thanks for sharing 🙋🏻

Easy to comprehend and get inspiration as well . From someone who tried hard before to learn the principles. You are awsome.

I've been hoping you would find the time to make a video on the new loom, Kate!! So exciting to see it in action... and excellent tutorial as usual. I'm saving up to buy one, hopefully soon! ❤️ (love your hair, by the way!)

I think this is absolutely impossibly complicated. This girl is a genius

This is the first video that pops up when you search weaving for beginner on KZfaq. That's saying much about the art of weaving....yall are some patient ass people.

Very interesting but I could never remember how to set it up, lol.

“So that’s how easy it is-“ Hey, no. No.

Hard to believe someone actually figured out this machine, amazing!

That pattern is gorgeous, as is your hair!! Love it!

Such a lot of patience needed to set it up, my salute to you ma'am 👌👌👌

Oh, pressing pedals on granny's loom was best entertainment ever when I was 4..

Wow this is such a beautiful process so intricate and patient and a technical marvel

Tiffany watching from Atlanta Georgia, US. I never even knew people did this. I feel down a you tube hole and ended up here. I’ve watched several of your videos today. I now want to do this. Your art is so beautiful and amazing. I subscribed. Thank you for sharing.

This is one of my favourite ashford videos

Wow this brought back so many memories...my grandmother use to weave with similar machine but 3 times bigger. I use sit next to her and catch the little boat thing.

My class had a field trip going to the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts! We were making these weaving things with our legs used too!!! We went in the room where the Mill girls worked. It was hot, smelly and tiring also a steamy. So cool how life worked in the old days! I got my woven thing back a week later and I feel so proud of myself :)

This is so freaking fascinating!!! You are amazing!!!

Eight months after seeing this demo video, I finally ordered one today. Now it just has to travel from New Zealand to Tennessee!

Very nice loom! I'm have accessibility/wheelchair/strength issues and some of those removable beams and the simple handle advance mean this loom might enable me to get back into weaving.

Thanks so much for your excellent tuition!

I had no idea that weaving was so intensive, thank you for this video

The machine is a work art and you are amazing. I don't know how I landed on this video but this was a rather humbling experience

Muy lindo trabajo! Es impresionante el trabajo previo, antes de empezar a tejer un paño! MUY divertido diseño en color y textura. A pesar de que no entiendo inglés, me pareció muy didáctica tu clase. Avanti!

I am meserized by the very very intricacies of yor work. This kind of creative ness has to begin with the gift of talent of a true artist. Your casual delivery of those intricacies shatters my ability to comprehend the process. This art is pwned by only a precious few and left for the rest of us to sit i awe. Thank you so much for this remarkable demonstration. 1926lady

I love the bright shiny colours!

Beautiful warp and beautiful video, inspired to continue dress my loom.

I don't know what any of this means, but I like it :D

Wow, your work is incredible

I have no idea what you were talking about but my god is this amazing. What a talent.

I love her works and her hair ❤️❤️❤️

Each stage in the process of dressing the loom is easy as long as you make sure that everything is in order before the next stage. The Ashford Jack Loom is an easy loom to work with on the whole. Brilliant for changing tie-ups. There are a couple of things that I would change, but then I say that about the design faults of the human body as well. There is not much that is perfect in this world. I love my Jack loom, I spend hours weaving on it. From baby wraps to tea towels and Blankets to scarves. and I'm just cobbling together my first jacket. My loom and I will go a long way together. Much faster than knitting or crochet. In fact - as soon as I'm comfortable with the way a piece is growing in front of me - I'm planning the next piece. Sometimes the finishing takes longer than the weaving and sometimes the dressing of the loom takes longer than the weaving as well. All part of a very satisfying process that links weavers down through the ages. It's very special. Thank you Ashfords and thank you to Kate - you do make it look like it's a piece of cake to dress a loom. I wish I could speed up, like the camera speeds you up!

awww there are tiny little hearts in it! i didn't expect that xD

I can only dream of owning such a loom. Amazing.

that is GORGEOUS what an effect love the rainbow hearts. But it seems hard as you make it look so easy GREAT JOB

I love this !! Beautiful, amazing

This looks fantastic!

I have no idea how I got here but this I so good and relaxing to watch

the colors of the warp threads are beautiful.

i am a knitter. I am confident enough to try this . I can't stop watching your vids

Love this video. Watched more then once.

So awesome to see this! Love Ashford products-they are the best! Another great job, Kate...you're a star! Thanks to your inspiration, my beginning rigid heddle students are now warping their own looms. You were right; it's going great!

Beautiful colors!!!

First time ever seeing something like this, this is both beautiful and complicated, .

wow I didn't know threading the loom is so much work... thanks for sharing!

"And that's how easy it is to-" Hold on a sec, that was hella complex with plenty of space for error. But you know what? I respect the amount of work and creativity. I would really like to learn to do this someday, so thank you for being the first to introducing me to this art.

I learned how to weave on the AJL many years ago in college. Now I'm retired and this video makes me want to get a loom.

OMG ...The first 8 minutes wasn't even the actual weaving?! 😭😭 when she said and now we can start our weaving, I fell off my chair! 😂😂😂

Strangely mesmerising. I can't quite explain it.

I felt in love with this loom...

I think I'm in love. The QoL features are exactly what I've been hoping for. Kudos for the warp-laying demo, scored some tricks I can use with our old big loom!

I just watching your viedio. The loom you weaving with multiple colourful treads is beautiful and design. My brother had business make the loom for weaving Thai silk and the loom you show on this video too.

Ohhh. Looks beautiful, complex and time consuming. I'm in!

This looks incredibly complicated! It makes me want to take a class.

There's no way I would have the patience for this but looks really cool! Def a cool trade to have

Having tried various times to set up a warp, when I see videos from experts like this, I wish to impart that there is no way a beginner can watch a video and achieve a seamless warping like this. But it does help once you have taken a class or two , to watch this and continue trying. Thanks for your video. Nice pattern!

Amazing and useful. Thank you so much for uploading.

7:55 and now we're ready to weave....oh wow. This looks like a hobby for people who are snowed in for a month. Very complicated but amazing.

Omg this is amazing craftsmanship :o

I was mesmerized watchin this! I was squealing when I realize there was a heart design. Gotta get me a loom when I get married when I get older :3 😸😸😸

First time seeing how to weave omg that pure talent an the cute hearts I don't even how they got there but u live it am I the only one who just understand the colours nothing else seems easy....ur awesome chick

Fabulous work