Backstrap Weaving

Click on these links to find mini video tutorials and videos of me and some of my weaving teachers at work:

Montagnard backstrap weaver, Ju Nie, and a backstrap weaver from the Cusco region in Peru show how they load weft yarn onto sticks that they use as shuttles (embedded in post).

A weaver from Chahuaytire, Peru creates pattern with supplementary warps using a backstrap loom (embedded in post)

A series of videos that I made on operating a backstrap loom and making continuous string heddles are in this article: 

Montagnard weaver Ju Nie shows how she twists the fringe at the ends of her woven pieces (embedded in post)

A backstrap weaver in Peru uses a forked stick in her warp to help open the heddle shed (embedded in post)

I show how I use multiple string heddles and the Andean Pebble Weave structure to weave narrow bands relatively quickly (embedded in post)

A weaver from Chahuaytire, Peru weaves and sews a tubular band using multiple string heddles (embedded in post)

Deb McClintock’s demonstration and explanation of the vertical pattern storage system used on looms in Laos (embedded in post)

My friend Adem in Turkey shows how he uses sticks to store the pattern in the simple warp-float technique (embedded in post)

Cotton spinning Chiclayo, Peru (embedded in post).

1.Weaving a complementary-warp belt, San Ignacio de Loyola, Peru with mulitple sets of string heddles (embedded in post).

2. Making string heddles in San Ignaco de Loyola (embedded in post)

 Knotting the fringe of a traditional ikat pañon of Tacabamba, Peru (embedded in post).

Weaving a pañon, Tacabamba, Peru.

A Burmese backstrap weaver weaving supplementary weft patterns (embedded in the post)

Montagnard Backstrap Weaver Ju Nie shows how she creates continuous string heddles while she winds her warp. (embedded in post)

My “slowed down” demo and explanation of how Montagnard weavers add string heddles as they warp on my Youtube channel:

Installing a coil rod (embedded in post)

Basic Warping for Backstrap Looms

Basic weft twining (embedded in post)

Opening the shed rod shed on a sticky warp (embedded in post)

 

Bolivian Weavers doing Complementary Warp Pick-up (embedded in blog post along with a video on the basics of complementary warp pick-up)

A Weaver at work from Cochabamba, Bolivia

Three videos embedded in one blog post:

Overspinning plied wool yarn

Warping and prep for weaving pick-up on a simple toe loom

Weaving pebble weave on a simple toe loom

Weavers of South America – a Mapuche weaver from central Chile

 

Sling braiding – The Palma Braid

Braiding – The 4-Strand Braid on Finger Loops

Warping and Setting up the Loom

Techniques – Simple Warp Floats

 

Weavers of South America – Candelaria and Tarabuco, Bolivia

Five-strand Finger Loop Square Braid

Four-stake warping

Guatemalan single face supplementary weft patterning – setting up the patterning sticks

Opening the heddle shed

Weavers of South America – Zapote, Manabi Province, Ecuador

Weavers of South America – Pitumarca, Peru

Weavers of South America – A Guarani weaver in Santa Cruz, Bolivia warping and making string heddles.

Weavers of South America – a Guarani weaver in Santa Cruz, Bolivia weaving Moisy technique.

Ju Nie, Montagnard weaver, spins cotton on a traditional spinning wheel.(embedded in  post)

Ngach Rahlan, Montagnard weaver, making a weft twined design on the edge of a traditional skirt. (embedded in post)

Ju Nie, Montagnard weaver, shows how she prepares cotton for spinning and then skeins it. (embedded in post)

Four videos embedded in one post:

Weavers from Peru and Bolivia doing pick up;

Weavers from Peru and Bolivia weaving and attaching edge bands and braiding;

Spinners from the Cusco area of Peru;

A young boy learning to weave with his grandmother;.

Creating third and fourth selvedges in Chinchero

Weaving and attaching a tubular plain weave band to fabric

 

Opening the heddles on a narrow warp

Needle-weaving to close the gap on a four-selvedge piece (embedded in this post)