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Sun, 02/20/2011 - 02:34

Marsha A. Knox (not verified)

I have always said that any art form can be as expesive as you want or as inexpensive as you want.  As complicated as you want or as uncomplicated as you want.  If the 'natives' can do these things hundreds of years ago with whatever they could find on hand, then we should all be able to do the same.  We can't all afford big floor looms.  BRAVO!

Sun, 04/17/2011 - 12:02

Thumper70 (not verified)

I've done this too and its loads of fun, but my god does it take forever! That said - I've got a lovely little rug out of it. My two favourite tools when doing this is a kitchen fork (as you say it makes a great beater), and a pair of herb shears (to even out the pile - I found its easier to manipulate than normal scissors - but then I could have been using the wrong kind of scissors to start with :) ).

What knot are you using?

When I started I made the "mistake" of pre-cutting my yarn for knotting. I had no clue what I was doing and based the project purely on rug knotting I'd done as a teenager, and a bit of intuition. Then I watched some vids on youtube of people doing it in villages in Central Asia and realised I was making it harder than it had to be and figured out how to run the knot off of a ball of yarn and clip as I went - it made the weaving process speed up by about 40%.

It'll be exciting to see more pics as it develops, and to read about the tricks you pick up along the way.

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8 knots per inch.

For learning and practice I improvised with a Picture Frame, crochet hook, embroidery scissors, kitchen fork to beat weft, ruler sanded one end for weft threader, and bought large sharp scissors for cutting pile. Knitting cotton for warp and weft, Tapestry wool for pile. So far, working well.  

 

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