I know this is an old video, but I have been looking for somebody to show piece by piece how to put together a backstrap, warping and wef, I’ve never did backstraping Weaving before and I like to know how to begin with I am glad I found you after all this time thank you

You defeated these damn threads!

Thanks!

So I'm reading James Maffie's "Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion". Backstrap weaving is the central metaphor (the whole cosmos is seen as a weaving in progress, as with many other cultures). I could not understand the author's description of setting the warp threads, so I found your video. Now I get it, thanks! From the book: "Before being transferred to, stretched out upon, and mounted upon the loom, the warp threads are first stretched out on a warping frame or board. Warping frames may be either vertical or horizontal. The purpose of this is to keep the threads from becoming entangled, to establish the length of the weaving, to establish the breadth or width of the weaving, and to arrange the threads in the order and pattern the weaver desires that they occupy on the loom. Warping involves winding the selected thread around two or more stakes or pegs while at the same time crossing the thread over itself in the shape of a butterfly, figure eight, or X. Barbara Taber and Marilyn Anderson call this process “winding a butterfly.”15 The parallel with the Aztecs’ use of quincunx, floral, and butterfly motifs as chronotopograms of the Fifth Age is striking (see Figures 4.2, 4.3, 4.6, 4.7, and 4.10). This creates a cross or “lease” that fixes each warp thread in its proper position and makes it easier to distinguish even from odd threads during the weaving process. The figure eight or butterfly-shaped crossing-over of the warp threads is preserved after mounting on the loom by means of a shed rod. This creates the shed, which is the space through which the weft-thread-transporting shuttle stick (or bobbin) passes in the process of weaving over and under warp threads."

This is incredible! Thank you for sharing

This video tops the previous two videos off with cleverness. Thank you.

Thank you, this is simple, but useful.

What a great idea! Thank you.

Where I can buy this loom?

Sorry, but I didn't see the pattern looking like the draft.

How long can be the liquid be preserved ? can it be reused ?

Thank you for sharing this video. You really explained the how and why. Especially the pause after your question: ‘and now what do I do’ is very helpful. I am down with the flu right now but I still can order some yarn for a new project 😊

thank you well explained 😀

Thank you so much for talking about the importance of safety with this process.

This is good stuff! But I was barely able to hear it, even after turning my volume all the way up. I'm wondering if you need to check the volume on your video recording device to make sure the volume is on high?

That's an effective technique and something I haven't tried yet. Thanks for the tips.

I could open the shed with the headle but not the other not to sure what happened 2 this happened

Hello, where do you get your dyes from?

Geometry is your friend. Circumference = 2 times pi times the radius. There are videos on KZfaq that explain the formula and there are calculators online. This should work for fabric because it is not very thick.

Cool. Like seeing patterns done on frame looms.

Thank you for sharing this, it’s really inspiring.

Thank you

Wonderful video with excellent instructions - the title says it’s part of a series of videos but I couldn’t find them. Thank you for sharing!!!

Thank you for this! You have provided an important bit of information about how to advance the warp in tablet weaving when using a backstrap loom. Unfortunately, this information does not appear to be widely available.

Thank!

Your the only video i have found that explains only that. Thank you been struggling with it.

Showing the threading & tie up in print on the screen was helpful.

whats funny is i dont have any of this stuff

Absolutely brilliant series. Thankyou very much for making this.

I am making a plushie and this really helped me to better visualize how to sew it! Thanks for the tutorial, wishing you a great rest of year!

I really searched this video

Thanks for this😊🥰

There’s nothing more relaxing and meditative for me than this part of the process of dyeing yarn. I love watching the newly dyed yarn unfurl. Please keep the dyeing coming! I’ve just started dyeing cellulose fibres with fibre reactive dyes. So different from acid dyes on protein. I’d love for more on techniques for multi colours.

Those weaving swords are lovely!

شكرا 😘😘😍😗

your good at this

I have always used these clamps for warping, I never understood why I don't see more people using this method. They are fab.

Thank you so much, it all make sense now! I have inherited a backstrap loom (with some missing pieces and no instructions) and I was getting very mixed up with the heddle, but you made it easy to see and life has suddenly become much easier xx

Thank you for posting. What do you do with supplemental tails? Also, what happens with the supplemental yarn traveling up the side in between your designs?

When the string on the edge was loose, you tightened it up. What knot did you use during the warping that made it possible to tighten the string so easily?

At 6:01 you spoke about how your last string of warp was hanging because it wasn't part of the "X", so you put it on the dowel rod. Question: why wasn't it part of the "x"? And will it mess up the weave if there are threads not in the x formation? Novice weaver here, still trying to figure this all out. Thanks!

Very helpful👍

hi, really nice video, would you make one about complementary warp “Andean pebble weave” on a backstrap loom?

So helpful. Thank you!

your approach to this beginning makes so much sense, thanks.

I would tie a keeper string loop in my cross for when I drop the dowels!