In my office, I have drawer of ‘potentially useful stuff’ (or as Corey would prefer to call it, tat). The contents range from postcards to pencils, doorstops to stones, from ribbon to a plate rack. Today I was looking in the drawer for inspiration, and I found it! Today I saw French knitting looms…: I [...]
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Potentially useful stuff
May 24, 2009Totally loving these looms!
April 7, 2009Don’t tell Corey – I’ve been looking at new looms, again… These ones are so cool, though – handmade out of poplar wood, and designed specifically for earth-friendly rug-weaving with rags or plastic bags. Check out the Boyd Hollow Designs Etsy Store. You can get 6 different sizes, from mobile phone size (not shown [...]
More looms. There are, quite simply, always more…
October 28, 2008I was harping on about the copper loom, and the Archie loom a couple of posts ago. Well, I have just stumbled across another site, where you can buy a loom based on the same principles:Loom in a Tube. This one is not copper, but is still aesthetically pleasing. The text does not specify what [...]
More thoughts looming
October 11, 2008Something I didn’t mention in my earlier post about looms is the copper pipe loom. The original, Archie Brennan design is available online for you to make yourself - the photo shows a version constructed by Sara Lamb (pic borrowed from her blogspot). I haven’t made one, but I’d really like to, as there’s something very aesthetically pleasing about the copper. The Mirrix looms, although also copper pipe-based, don’t [...]
Thoughts looming…
October 10, 2008I go through phases, alternating between weaving and needlework (I never stray far from the lovely world of tangled threads). Needlework expresses my orderly side, and I do take delight in the satisfying symmetricality of many of my patterns and designs (although I do also embrace the occasional asymmetric quirk). This, of course, is because I have not yet really experimented [...]
