Winging It Week 31 | Introduction to Weaving | Textile Art Techniques For Beginners

It's Winging It Week 31. It's another Week 5 project, where we explore textile art techniques and this month, I thought it would be fun to have an introduction to weaving.

I am by no means a weaving expert. In this video we will look at some of the basic skills involved in weaving. The focus is playing with texture and experimenting with colour, so have fun and feel free to try whatever inspires you. We are looking at weaving through an embroidery lens, so I have made some adaptations to traditional loom weaving techniques to make something that will work for our book.

I know many of my methods aren't standard, but they did work for what I was trying to achieve, so feel free to take or leave the methods I use if you have a different system or have more experience.

To play along you will need:

20x20cm felt square
Waste fabric such as canvas or linen
Tacking cotton
A sewing needle and thread
Large embroidery hoop or frame
Heat erase pen
Strong sewing cotton to make the warp threads
A range of weaving materials - wool, yarn, threads, roving, fabric strips, ribbon, sari silk, paper strips, twigs, dried branches... whatever inspires you
A blunt needle
A comb or fork
Scissors

Have fun and don't forget to tag me if you post your creations. I would love to see what you make.

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Nails: Rimmel 60 Seconds - 721 - Siren

00:00 Intro
02:19 Setting Up
11:35 How to Create a Tabby Weave
16:19 How to Make Rya Loops
20:16 How to Create a Basket Weave
23:13 Spider's Web Weave
29:14 How to Deal With Thread Ends
30:57 Adding Sparkle to your weaving
34:08 How to Create a Twill Weave
40:15 Creating Texture In Your Weaving