Thu 20 Sep 2007
Tonight I made a cartoon of the photo I took yesterday for a small tapestry. I made a pin loom frame out of a sheet of foam core board. The pins will go across the top and bottom of the design. I like to use foam core board because it is very light and it’s easier on my injured elbow, but you could use cardboard or wood with nails or even a book with the yarn wrapped around it. This is four panels thick with a window cut out of just the top panel.
Anybody can weave on a loom like this very cheaply and create some amazing work. For examples, see these small tapestries I wove several years ago on looms just like this one. You can incorporate beads with this technique also.
I’m heading out for a 3 day vacation early in the morning and will be offline until Sunday night. I hope that I’ll have some interesting art work to post!
September 20th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Hi. I’m just surfing WeaveRing and wanted to stop and tell you how interesting this is. I really don’t have the patience for tapestry weaving. I took an online class a couple of years ago; just enough for me to truly appreciate the process and be thankful for my floor loom.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 pm
I looked at your tapestries. Now, that is something I’d love to learn to do. Smaller projects would appeal to me in two ways–I’d finish more quickly and I don’t have the physical space right now to put up my floor loom.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 pm
You can totally do this. I’ve done a few that were only 2×3 inches - just simple geometric lines and I enjoyed them very much. Almost like coloring in a coloring book.
The cartoon of my husband’s face was a copy that he made of on old driver’s license and he enlarged it over and over until it was just black and white silhouette. He was just horsing around but I got some mileage out of it!