Weaving Houndstooth on a Rigid Heddle Loom.

[@avrilp317]

Thanks Tess. Really clear and I love the tip about shuttle placement.

[@tessearle4828]

Avril your welcome glad to help

[@maresolaris]

Thank you very much for this great explanation video. Clear to follow with a lot of detailed descriptions. Another fan for you 🙂

[@tessearle4828]

Thank you glad you enjoyed it

[@4odyssey645]

Great Timing. I was curious as to how this technique was executed. Thank you for your easy and quick Tutorial.

[@jenniferfowler6713]

Thank you great edge tip!

[@tessearle4828]

Your welcome

[@curmudgeon66]

Looks very nice Tess. Sometimes I forget how many nice patterns can be made with "plain weave".

[@tessearle4828]

+curmudgeon66 Thank you Andy its a good one for beginners, I have some friends just starting to weave.

[@serenad52]

You made this look so simple. Thank you for the video

[@tessearle4828]

Glad it was helpful!

[@oksanapoberezhnyk2615]

great lesson! very visual and clear! thank you so much!

[@tessearle4828]

You're very welcome!

[@mastinomama8939]

Helps A LOT! Thank you very much for the video.

[@yakanmartinez4622]

Yay something fancy we just started learning about weaves in my textile class and I wanna do something super different!

[@tessearle4828]

Go for it!

[@anne-mariescheffer4691]

Thank you very much for sharing. This was very helpful 👌 if I want a bigger pattern I can weave f.e. 4 and 4 warps and then 4 and 4 wefts?

[@kristenschafli1969]

Thank you so much! This is so clear and helpful.

[@georgette329]

Thank you so much for showing this technique.

[@tessearle4828]

+Georgette M Your welcome glad it helps you.

[@AzRavnGrl]

Very nice work...Thank you, Tess.

[@tessearle4828]

+AzRavnGrl Your welcome glad you enjoyed it

[@knackfulknitter]

Wonderful and very inspiring!

[@terrikat2513]

Grazie, è molto ben spiegato!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@karenbochinski]

Excellent as usual.

[@tessearle4828]

+Karen Bochinski Thank you Karen I'm glad it helps

[@HeliosWorksAV]

Great video. Thank you for sharing.

[@tessearle4828]

Thanks glad you like it

[@hatchling88]

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how to warp this pattern. Would you wind each color into a separate warp as some suggest, and if so, what's the best way to get these two colored warps onto the loom? Would you thread each color separately, skipping a slot and hole between, then come back and thread the other color warp into the open slots and holes? Or is there another way? There would be a lot of tying off if one changed colors while winding the warp.

[@laceandbits]

I'm sure after a year you've worked it out, but normally on a rigid heddle you direct warp wrapping the yarn round the back warping stitch on each pass, so the loop pulled through the first slot would be colour a, the second slot would be colour b. Repeat all the way across with colour a through all the odd number slots and colour b through the evens. Each loop gives you two threads (1 hole, 1 slot) on the finished warp. Ashford's video is very clear kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJKUiKV-hLmdrrs So long as you can get a long enough warp, direct warping is much quicker and easier. If, like me, you only have a small table, place extra warping pegs around the table edge, or a warping frame horizontally on the table behind the loom and make a longer path zigzagging out and back. Note you don't need a cross with direct warping as you are putting the threads in the right order into the rigid heddle as you go. If you want to make a warp on a warping frame, then again you'd just do a single complete round with each colour as each pass gives two threads in the same way. Unless you have a raddle handy, to keep the threads in the right order, it can be a bit of a faff and you really are better off working out ways to get the length of warp you need and direct warp.

[@barbarajwilsonceramics8380]

Thank you!

[@tessearle4828]

Your welcome

[@desmond9168]

Just starting in weaving. Really enjoyed your well explained video. What yarn did you use? It looked so effective? How do you warp the different yarns. Thanks.

[@dv5205]

Thank you Tess. A couple of years ago as a brand new weaver, I was successfully able to complete 3 projects as a direct result of your great video and all of your clear tips regarding the selvages made the projects look beautiful. It was so easy and a lot fun. I hadn't woven houndstooth since. Ironically now, as a much more experienced weaver, I am having trouble with houndstooth. Like a few people who have asked, my weaving is coming out with wavy lines - not houndstooth. So I went back to your video but it doesn't say how you began. My warp looks correct when I check it against yours. Does it matter what color you start with? What shed? From what direction?

[@tessearle4828]

No

[@deasone8062]

Tess how did you start your first row did you start from left or right side and what colour did you start with? i am trying this but getting striping instead of houndstooth kind regards Ciaran

[@tessearle4828]

You can start with either colour I start from right to left do a pick change shed do second pick same colour you will be back to where you started then do the same for other colour

[@shellythompson7166]

Do you start the colors on the same side or opposite?

[@gaurang3442]

I can do that in plain weaving ?

[@marialuciasilvamarialucia1975]

Muito bem bom trabalho vou fazer

[@melaniedunkley3030]

Thanks Tess. Very helpful instructions. Where did you find your shuttles?

[@tessearle4828]

+Melanie Dunkley Thanks Melanie I bought my loom from a lady in my spinning group and they came with the loom

[@melaniedunkley3030]

+Tess Earle I haven't seen any like that before and they are a nice size but flat. I will look out for them. I find boat shuttles a bit too deep for my shed and the flat ones that came with my loom are a bit too long for narrow projects.

[@AzRavnGrl]

+Melanie Dunkley I like to buy supplies from earthguild.com; they have cherry wood shuttles in several sizes (and lots of warp yarn choices!) you can also find shuttles on etsy usually, sometimes amazon as well.

[@ncmagyar]

I am doing exactly as you illustrated but am only getting wavy lines, not houndstooth! What am I doing wrong?

[@tessearle4828]

Nancy try not to beat too hard or too soft also if wool is too thin it wont show up as good

[@ncmagyar]

Tess Earle 2yrs ago! I actually had the wrong set.

[@tessearle4828]

@@ncmagyar Sorry for late response I was very ill lost a lot of subscribers but I couldnt help it had to get healthy again

[@ncmagyar]

Tess Earle It's all good. I'm sorry you were ill. Hope you are feeling better!

[@tessearle4828]

@@ncmagyar Thank you

[@e2cmmm]

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