This is absolutely outstanding. Thank you and Claudia for this wonderfully useful video, that will help preserve this art form for years to come.

I am happy to see all the comments saying how hard and time-consuming the work looks. Hand crafted things do take time to make. Next time you want to buy something that is hand made - from anywhere around the world as well as in the USA - consider the artist/craftsperson is really working for very little money. It takes me a couple of days or so to knit a hat. Plus yarn. A hat that I could probably sell for $40 at the most. That's something like $2.50 an hour at best not counting materials!

This really helped me understand the mechanics of separating sheds like nothing else, because it's so hands on! This is very much the base method for all modern looms, and mechanized weaving. I love learning traditional methods og anything, because it always gives me insight into why and how we do things the way we do!

This is a really great teaching video. Thank you Caroline for making and thank you to Claudia for so generously sharing her knowledge with the world.

It's always wonderful to see a master craftsperson at work. Inspiring.

This is a wonderfully instructive video. I agree with some other comments about showing the finished product, and maybe including some of the history of the development of this kind of weaving. I'm really glad to see that the weaver can do this while sitting on a chair. I seem to recall seeing photos of women sitting on the ground with the warp rising to an elevation higher than their sitting position. I know I would get a backache sitting like that. I might give it a try someday.......retirement arrives in less than a year and I'll have a lot more time to try new things. Thank you Caroline!

this is the absolute best video on how to correctly assemble and use a backstrap loom!!! thank you so much for making it!!!

seeing this after watching the himalayan weavers i get the urge of weaving myself. after all modern ppl dont really cherrish their possessions when they buy it. its broken? throw it away buy a new one. weave it yourself and youll cherrish the work it took and handle it with love instead of just being a throw away consumable

This is an extremely well made video. Easy to watch, clear instructions, good quality camera work. It made it very pleasant to watch. At first, I thought this was going to be easy weaving, just a few stick, oh boy was I wrong! This looks like extremely hard work and very time consuming; which is fine for a hobby, but as a craft to earn a living it must be very hard. What a very clever lady!

I couldn't help admiring Claudia's beautifully starched and pleated apron! A masterpiece in itself!

I like how optimistically she keeps saying "you will". I probably won't, tbh, but thanks for the confidence!

Good grief...who ever figured this out was a genius

Thank you for sharing this! As we move forward with technology, some of these old methods of creating things die. I remember as a teenager visiting an 85 year old woman in my town to learn tatting. I don't think I will ever try this, but others will, and it's a great way to keep an old method alive. Claudia, you are amazing!

So clever! Those heddle sticks!! That was what I wanted to learn, how to lift the threads in a simple way without a loom, using mostly your body and ingenuity! Awesome, thank you! 🧡💜💙💚❤️💛

I want to thank Claudia Vega for this invaluable lesson! Thanks you! Greetings from the Russian Far East!

That's one heck of a complicated way to weave, I'll stick to my much loved heddle loom. I'll appreciate it even more,. Respect to that lady.

As advanced we become, the more we loose. Thanks so much for this video!

Thank you so much for this! I have never seem a simpler (and beautiful) video explaining the process. Thank you for taking the time!

Brilliant!!! It makes perfect sense, but it take a civilization to come up with it. Amazing how all over the planet, people have brought ideas to fruition that make things better for all... ...and they'll keep doing it, too.

All my questions were answered in the last minute. From above it's really hard to tell how sliding the heddle rods creates a new shed. From the side it's easier to see.

I think I'd die at the first step of this, props to the lady demonstrating for being so skilled at such a complicated thing

I love how authoritative the instructions are. Claudia, I probably will not, but thank you for showing us this ingenious way of weaving! this is such an interesting and smart way of weaving, I love the idea of using your body weight to create tension.

I would have loved to have seen the finished product.

Great teaching video!!! Can’t think of any other video or book I’ve seen that could teach this art any better then if she was right in the same room teaching me! Thank you so much!!!

Thanks for showing me how to weave Claudia and your team! I thought that knitting and crochet was hard work,but as you know,once you get going,it ends up being kind of therapeutic in the end. Take care all and happy weavin✌🏽

Thank you. A process oriented demonstration was exactly what I needed.

An excellent slow demostration for the basics of preparing a warp

LOVE this. I'm an experienced weaver with the floor and inkle loom, and have always wondered how these looms are set up. Gorgeous. I can't say that I grokked all the ins and outs of making the warp, so there's more to study later. :)

Muchas gracias! Gracias a la señora Vega también por compartir su destreza ;) Excelente video, me ha aclarado varios puntos que no se mostraban en otros videos menos completos! Saludos desde Uruguay!

Muchas gracias ,Señora Carolina , por su maestría en mostrar cómo se prepara el telar , un abrazo .

I love how she did the heddles. Very interesting video

Simply brilliant weaving method! Thanks so much for showing the side view of how the two sheds are made - the heddle one is obvious, but the slide shed isn't. Excellent video!

Beautifully hard working hands, reminds me of my 85 year old mother (she raised 9 kids in a tiny 3 bedroom house, no electricity, no running water, she cooked over a cast iron wood burning stove, hauled water, did washing by hand using a manual wringer washer, she lost her mom when she was just a tiny 3 year old and lost her dad after having 4 children of 9, dad worked as a hunting guide and was away most of the time, sadly when he was home, he drank, but quit after 40 years of daily drinking, mom had a hard life, I always say, "God blessed us with the perfect mom"...she worked hard and to this day, she does not sit long for long periods and works from 8am until 8 pm at night, that is when she will sit with her tea and "magic machine" aka iPad..lol...that one of her great grand children gave her to search for crafts and old pictures of days gone past), this beautiful woman reminds me of my momma, no matter how hard and time consuming the work, they get it done, they never give up, they rarely get frustrated and they put so much love and thought in to things they do...I so would have LOVED to have seen the final product...kinda feel cheated..lol...but I lost it at the 3:00 mark..lol

Thank you sooo much for the beautiful clear video! I’m trying to teach my students native crafts as we study the Spanish speaking world (Spanish class) and the setting up of my Backstrap loom and figuring out how to work it took me soo many frustrating hours I was almost in tears 😂 and then when I saw this video soo many things became clearer to me 😊

I want to learn this, thank you Madam Claudia so much!

Anybody besides me TOTALLY lost? Guess this is a skill to begin learning early in life! This lady is quite a craftsman.

thank you for this video really good help for beginner backstrap weavers great to look back on

this is a fantastic video thank you so much, i too would love to have seen the final product. So patient was she to do this, which i suspect she has done hundreds of times . x

what abstract mindset you need for this….. great respect

It is so amazing to watch such a great artist!!!

This is betty not james.what a precious little darling she is for showing us how to do this.thank you claudia.

Thank you, thorougly and well narrated, intersting and amazing, too. So simple tools like sticks and some thread you can create a textile!

Thank you SO much. I had taken lessons from a Guatemalan weaver a few years ago,--40 hours of classes--and, despite being an experienced rigid heddle weaver I found the Guatemalan warping method very confusing, as they do 2 sets of figure 8s. The second cross is where the string heddles are placed. The Salvordoran method and your video makes it much easier for me to refresh and to start again.

I wonder how there is no one in the comments talking about the man sitting behind Claudia's and Caroline's shoulders the entire time... I cannot imagine what she has to put up with on a day to day basis. My biggest respects for Claudia and her complex weaving skills!

It appears that no one commenting is using this as instructions because there is one thing that is an impass and not explained: The top and bottom sheds are switched on either ends of the loom (figure 8), which means that the heddles only work for one end. The video shows using the same heddles with both ends of the loom. How? Also, the verbal instructions referring to knots are protentially confusing. Knots are specific and have proper names. The narrator refers to a slipknot as a loop or bow. For other (unknown) knots, the narrator refers to them simply as knots. This is an otherwise good, informative video that tries to be very clear.

Awesome! This is the video I was waiting for! Thank you !

I want to try this, but I got lost. It looks so interesting and beautiful to try. One day I will attempt to try this after I finish spinning my yarn. Thank you for showing us how you do this.

This is amazing! Thank you both for this video. I will try this! What a gorgeous art form!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

This lady might as well be an astrophysicist for how complicated this is to me. We're so clueless today

thank you madam for the hard work you do in my country which is algeria some women do the same thing but on very large equipment

Damn. Thats intense. Never imagined such a simple but complete loom.

Privilege to watch complicated job worked calmly... 💜

Real good instructions! Thank you I really appreciate it.

The best video out there - thank you ☺️

wow, this is very clear and easy to understand. what a master!

Te agradezco haber gravado este video. Porque... LA MAYORIA (mas bien casi todos) QUE SABEN EL TELAR DE CINTURA, NO LO QUIEREN ENSEÑAR. PIENSAN QUE LES ROBAN SU TRABAJO. Yo vivo en la Cda. De Mexico y en una visita a Toluca, un lugar en el Estado de Mexico: en una explanada cerca del centro, estaba una mujer con su hija enseñando esta tecnica. ME COBRO POR ADELANTADO EL MATERIAL Y SEGUN LAS CLASES. CUANDO ME ENTREGO EL MATERIAL, YA ESTABA ARMADO EL TELAR (y segun, yo lo iba hacer) Y ME DIJO... QUE SOLO ERAN DOS CLASES, QUE SI QUERIA MAS CLASES ERA MAS DINERO. OBVIAMENTE, NUNCA REGRESE!!!

I enjoy how the simple wood tools help make the fabric strong. Very nice crafting.

Thanks so much! Ive always wondered how this was done.

Dang... I've always wanted to learn to do this but WOW, did I ever get lost at chapter 4!! I think I'll need to watch this more than a few times to get the hang of it!

Un excelente video muy buen explicado y visualmente claro me encantaría seguir viendo algo más de esta técnica Muchas gracias

maravillosos oficio de artesanas :D GRACIAS por compartir!

This is crazy amount of work.

It is amazing! Thank you for sharing!! 💚

wow that's way too much for me to want to do but good on Claudia for being so clever . thx for the vid just the same.

I would love this video was hers or her family channel, so the money of views went for them...i've seen so many of you bargain at my people (im mexican) for these at touristic destinations...most of you dont appreciate all the hardwork.

C’est fascinant et passionnant ! Bravo Madame

That is a great video, and I enjoyed watching it. Now let's say you get to the end of the weave, how do you finish it and remove everything?

Thankyou so much for documenting this!

I love creative, rustic workmanship. To me, the method that was used to assemble her project is very comprehensive. I prefer the primitive Heddle. I will use her tutorial tomorrow for my project. Thank you for sharing this video.

Amazing work.

I feel so privilaged watching her do this.

Wow! What a lot of work! Is there another video with the finished product?

HI Caroline is it possible for you to tell me how many threads she puts on . i am a first time beginner at this weaving and i would love to try the back strap weaving . i am trying to learn the card weaving aswell As other weaving projects.

That is insanely cool.

These kind of talents always amaze me, like watching with my jaw on the floor. It must seem so easy to the master craftsperson

The heddle part confuses me, but I’ll probably have to check it once again

Oh, the precious, precious hands.

Thank you 😊 Ma’am. That shirt is beautiful all so , did you make it ?

Nice,no waste at the edge. So, nature friendly method .

Thank you very much for a great tutorial :)

it's a great work for who will learn something new ... do you agree ?

Nice video 👍 Thank you for sharing 👍

600 years later, you have a hand towel! My brain is fried

wow - fascinating !

THANK YOU!

Wow....this is so complex 😮

Gracias por este video

I have watched many videos and yours is the most educational, the explinations, step by step, are clear and complete! I am wondering something though (which I could not find the answer to, anywhere on internet). If I want to use two different colors simultaneously to do a pattern, when I set the threads in an 8 shape, do I have to change colors (and make a knot) at every end of the loom (to have half of the 8 shape in one color and half with the other color)? Or is there another method? Thank you for your video, again, very good!

I wish someone in my family did this and I was around to learn!

Thanks Claudia.

I can’t believe that I watched the whole vid 😃 it was good tho!

Cool video!

I dont know anything about this weaving, what did she make? way too complicated! amazing!

Gracias Claudia

thank's very much! it is very helpfull i love the technic

What was the end product?

I would like to see the advanced work

I love her hands.

I don't completely understand because there were so many moving parts, but what I do have is a better understanding of the work that goes into weaving like this!

🇧🇷👍. parabéns congratulations