I'm still learning

ByThe haberdashery

I'm just jumping from one YouTube video to another and I'm finding a ton of interesting stuff. Some phenomenally clever chick is showing the principles of weaving on a horizontal loom. I wish I had thought of those obvious solutions. Her method of putting on a half-harness is much simpler than the one I saw in Professor Turnau's book.

A horizontal loom is a distant dream for me, but a horizontal loom will probably fit here and it's easy to make - after all, one of the first textile inventions 😀
But how am I going to hunt sticks now? ;P

I wanted to add a photo to illustrate my brand new craze, but there are too many of them on the Internet. It's worth typing "backstrap loom" into an image search engine. And typing "inkle loom" can also find many inspiring images 🙂

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  2. Thank you for your kind words.
    As for the advice about poles, it's wonderfully misguided, because I've always avoided (hyper)markets. Besides, I lived in a district that was a drinking den at night and a DIY Mecca during the day 😉 (Stores with good products and sellers.) And now the markets are out of my reach – about 80 km away? But the forest is close…

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