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The Weaver’s Idea Book: Creative Cloth on a Rigid Heddle Loom

January 20th 2011 in Books [Open Library Data Unavailable (books)]

This is a great book which explores the possibilities of the rigid heddle.  It covers plain weaves (which don’t have to be terribly plain!), laces, finger manipulated and pickup weaves, warp and weft faced fabrics as well as weaving with two heddles.

Each section has numerous examples, with colour photographs of the weavings.  There are also a number of projects throughout the book utilizing the various techniques.  I am planning to weave several of them.

If you’re interested in rigid heddles or want to learn more about what you can do with yours, I highly suggest you take a look at this book.




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This beautiful book was out of print for a long time and copies were very, very expensive!  However, it’s been re-released and is much more reasonable now.  My copy arrived just a couple of days ago and I have spent hours looking at it already.

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