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Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025
When I saw Syne Mitchell was the author I knew I had to buy the book. I just got my first rigid heddle loom, I wanted some direction as I haven't woven in a few years and never on a rigid heddle loom. Many years ago I listened to all of her podcasts - Weavecast they were interesting and very informative along with being helpful in my weaving.Keeping to form, Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom: does not disappoint. Great book and even if you aren't new to weaving, it's worth buying
David Ross
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2024
I have three weaving books and this one is the best. Easy to read, great photos, diverse content for the rigid heddle loom.
Rynda C
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2024
I bought this book for my Weaving class and it was very useful. However, I find YouTube’s more instructive in the actual doing part
Cathy S.
Reviewed in Canada on August 16, 2023
This book goes through all the steps, from the tools you’ll need to get started, choosing the right yarn, basic weaving and the more complex weaving techniques. It’s a great book to have in your fibre library.
tyzha
Reviewed in Spain on October 25, 2023
Óptimo não só para rigid heddle loom mas para qualquer aprendiz de tecelagem
Anna Maria
Reviewed in Italy on May 5, 2021
It is an absolutely wonderful book. It covers every topic related to the use of the rigid-heddle loom and a short part dedicated to other techniques with more heddles. It is a complete book, always to keep close at hand. I had in the past already attended a course, nevertheless it offers a lot of useful and precious information. Even if I had already covered the first part of the book during my course, it is always better to have written information because otherwise many small information and tips and tricks will be losen during the time. I am very satisfied with my purchase which is above all my expectations. I would have given 6 stars if I could!! Anyone who approaches weaving should have it. It does not describes many projects but the beauty is precisely in that because it provides everything there is to know about techniques in order to offer the tools and skills to everyone to create their own works.
Dilip Vyas
Reviewed in India on May 24, 2021
Very informative book
Helton Pedro de Alcântara Leite de Souza
Reviewed in Brazil on March 27, 2021
Ensina a confeccionar tecidos nesse modelo de tear e outras informações importantes para o domínio da tecelagem. Um livro que vale a pena adquiri-lo porque é muito detalhista na forma de ensinar, alem disso explica todo o funcionamento das partes que compõem este tipo tear.
Johann Mitchell
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019
Years ago, I tried a large loom, and didn't get very far with it. It was too big and unwieldy.I did have an inkle loom and some other small looms, and used and liked them.So, recently, I found Ashford's SampleIt loom. The 10-inch loom is about half the price of the next lowest-priced one, and it has a second heddle block built-in. I got it and wanted to know everything I could do on it because you can do almost any small project on the loom.So, I got this book, and it's perfect! If you buy a small rigid heddle loom and want to make the most of it, THIS is the book to get! It covers the basics of weaving on a small rigid heddle loom, and covers everything!It shows how to weave plain fabric, how to use a second heddle to make some more complicated fabrics, how to do tapestry, how to do inkle weaving (to make narrow bands or belts or straps) and everything you can do on any small loom, and how to do them on a rigid heddle loom. But it goes on into territory that I didn't even know was possible, and shows bead weaving and how to weave with wire! The last project in the book even shows you how to weave textiles that incorporate lights, wires, and power sources!It shows you how to dress your loom, how to weave, and how to troubleshoot any problems you might have.There isn't a lot of projects on any one topic because they cover so many kinds of weaving, but there's at least one project for each, and they cover the how-to with all the basics. This is a great book for the basics, and to show you the scope of a small rigid heddle loom.This is the perfect book for me to use this loom most effectively right now! I'm delighted!
Benca
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2019
This beautiful 295 page book is better than the 96 page “Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving” which is outdated and has even more techniques than the 238 page “The Weaver’s Idea Book”. It is hard to understand why people continue to refer to the 1987, 30+ year old “Hands On...” as the rigid heddle bible unless they just haven’t yet discovered Syne Mitchell’s 2015 “Inventive Weaving....”. This book covers every single topic and method in each of the other two books and does it better with excellent photos rather than diagrams of every detailed step and sample. For example Mitchel gives detailed photo steps for both the warping board and direct peg methods of warping. This much simpler direct peg method hadn’t even been developed yet when Davenport’s “Hands On...” was written and Patrick’s “Idea Book...” assumes you already know how to warp and use your loom. Mitchell gives detailed instructions for, samples of and projects for plain weave, Brooks bouquet, Spanish lace, Danish medallions, clasped weft, soumak, tapestry, transparencies, floats, spots, doup leno, honeycomb and design element floats. What more could a beginning weaver want?!She also gives careful instructions for weaving with two and three heddles and converting four shaft weaves drafts to rigid heddle weaving. She discusses wild weaving with fabric strips, fuzzy yarns, LEDs, added beads and wire - much more really creative and contemporary stuff than in Patrick's book. Unlike either of the other two authors, she discusses loom maintenance and weaving for and clothing assembly. Like them she discusses color theory but she does it with actual color photos of actual woven samples. She provides a comprehensive and current list of other authors and online resources. And she does it all with wonderful humor throughout - one chapter is titled “Get your weave thing going”!Bottom line? This is the only book a beginning weaver needs or will need for quite a long time. It should also be a marvelous resource for more experienced weavers. I purchased the other two books based on recommendations but am returning them and can only guess the recommenders haven’t discovered this encyclopedic treasure trove yet!
ABoudreau18
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2017
It’s been less than 24 hours since I recieved this book, bought at the reccomendation of the weaving expert at Webs (America’s largest yarn store which I am so lucky to live less than an hour from). I was initiallly overwhelmed by receiving a loom for Xmas, as a avid knitter, this is a fiber art I didn’t know I wanted to try. I am on page 77 and have learned so much and am so excited to get warping! I’m trying to be careful and learn in advance of my first try so I don’t get frustrated by messing up right away. The book has clear explanations and photos, addresses the right way and wrong way to do things while still taking into account that some weavers may want to just jump right in and learn on the fly... there are trouble shooting sections for those weavers. The book addresses color theory in chapter 4 which is a nice addition as so much of weaving is about color combination. I think this book appears to be the perfect first weaving book for anyone with a rigid heddle loom. It boils everything down so you aren’t overwhelmed, it has a light touch teaching style but is rich in content. I think it should accompany any gift of a loom actually - help a New weaver get off on the right foot.
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