5 Essential Tips for Using a Pick-Up Stick with a Rigid-Heddle Loom

Learn to use pick-up sticks efficiently with the five tips in this video excerpt. Weaver and instructor Sara Bixler begins by describing the importance of stick length and width, and how to use the beveled edge correctly. Then, she shares two valuable tips for picking up warp ends and storing a picked-up pattern. With these five tips under your belt, you’ll find using a pick-up stick on your rigid-heddle loom exciting and fun.
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If you love these tips, you'll love learning how to use a pick-up stick to weave beautiful lace. In Sara's course, Huck Lace on the Rigid-Heddle Loom, she provides everything you need to get started, including how to:
• Weave lacy fabric using a rigid-heddle loom and pick-up stick
• Read and follow a lace pattern
• Handle a pick-up stick with confidence
• Vary and combine lace units in your weaving
Along with video instruction, the included tips, techniques, and bonus napkins pattern will help you get started. You'll be weaving elegant lace fabric in no time! Join Sara today at learn.longthreadmedia.com/cou....
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:09 Pick-up stick length
0:25 Using the beveled edge
1:01 Pick-up stick width
1:52 Only pick up slot threads
2:21 Pick up behind the reed (heddle)
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