a website with small loom shown -- and a plug for Weavolution

This website was noted on Weavolution today:

http://angeltelar.blogspot.com/2008/09/especial-telar-tobatcnica-bsica.html

Although written in Spanish (which I don't read) the photos showing how to set up a small, wooden frame loom are quite informative.  The loom seems to be one that could be easily constructed, if you're handy with saw and drill.  The advantage is the tensioning of warp possible with the moveable top bar.

And, by the way, if you haven't yet discovered Weavolution you might want to check it out.  It's a social network for handweavers and free to sign up to be able to post comments.  However, there's quite a bit of information you can see and read without signing up.  I've been a member for several months now and one of the things I like about it is that there are people of many different interests in weaving who read and post to it and quite diverse experience levels, also.  I learned about the website above from a Weavolution posting, for instance.  I've also just bought a loom from someone who noted it as for sale and in the fall, I posted a couple of tapestry looms for sale for friends.  There are several special interest forums--for instance, there's one for Georgia Weavers; others forums for those interested in tapestry, for Navajo looms, for backstrap weaving... almost anything one could imagine being interested in you'll either find a forum where a few other people are also posting--or you can create a forum to seek out like-minded folks!

I hope everyone is staying warm and warped!

Greetings -- hope everyone is happily weaving tapestry!

I hope you're doing well with life and weaving as we get well underway into the second month of the year--can you believe it?! I also hope all of you are getting a small piece ready for the ATA small format exhibit. Entry deadline has already passed, so if you didn't send your intent to participate already, sorry you missed it! Actual pieces are due by March 15. I'm entering--haven't missed one of these small non-juried exhibits since they began in 1996... BUT I have to get it designed and woven!!

I'd love to hear news from everyone. I read Lauren's blog so am keeping up with her adventures through that. Terri just got in touch by e-mail a couple of days ago. I follow Jennifer's blog, also and loved her documentation of the New Zealand adventure she and her husband recently had.
Any one else have a blog or other web presence that shows what you're up to? Please share, if you do.

I'm wondering how we can use the blog with the intent with which I started it about a year ago--to share ideas and to learn from each other. Any suggestions from anyone about that? One of the things that I've done during this year is to have another blog that I've set up with my ATA mentee--we've been sharing back and forth through that private blog since September and we're finding it a great way to communicate. She posts images and asks questions; I reply within the posting, sometimes adding images in response in addition to my written comments.

We could do something similar with this blog, among those of you who are authors to the blog... you could open a posting an edit within it to make comments that would show up in the posting rather than just by doing a comment that's in a pop up.

Here are some ideas I have for possible Q & A things:

--a warping tutorial for frame looms (specifically those like the Brennan-style copper pipe looms)
--a set of photos for setting up heddles
--mounting small tapestries on a fabric covered board
--warping a larger upright tapestry loom

Any other suggestions??

Happy New Tapestry Weaving Year Everyone!

Happy New Year Everyone!
Our guests have all returned to their homes, jobs and schools. I have been playing with the tapestry ideas and now to get busy weaving after I finish clearing away the holiday celebrations. I have set up 2 frame looms and I am learning that photos are my friend. I hope to get something done and be able to share pix. Our daughter requested a piece of woven shibori fabric to go with a bowl I am still working on for her. I did finish that weaving and will finish the copper bowl soon I hope. I'm looking forward to hearing from all of you!
Terri

more to share in 2010--happy (almost) NEW YEAR!

The new year is rapidly approaching, like a blank warp waiting to be woven.

My best wishes to all for health, happiness and lots of time to be creative in whatever way makes you happy! And I hope tapestry weaving will be one of those ways.
Tommye

It will be good to get this going. Like Terri, I am hoping to keep studying with Tommye. How could you not want to at every given opportunity?

Life and other interest compete for my tapestry time, but I have managed to do a couple of tapestries in the last month or two. Here is a link to my blog to see them. You probably have already seen them but... in an effort to post here. :)

http://laurenfinley.wordpress.com/page/2/

http://laurenfinley.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/in-sheeps-clothing/

Looking forward to hearing what you are weaving

Hi All,
We had our phone line taken down by a delivery truck and were without internet or landline phone service for a bit. I've seen Tommye's invitation to get back to sharing and that sounds wonderful to me.
I am beginning to work on a tapestry and mangaged to have a small hill in the tapestry. Finally, I unwove it and went back to the twined base and straightened it out. You would think that would be obvious wouldn't you? At any rate, one challenge corrected and now to see if I can actually get some tapestry woven.
Terri

Let's start this up seriously, gang... what say?!

I'm quite interested to make this a forum for sharing tips and ideas about tapestry. You were all eager to join when we began and I was, too. I let the ball drop, didn't I, when I didn't keep posting regularly!! But a few of you faithfully kept up the dialog ever so ofter--THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Now, I'd like to open this up to others who are on the learning journey about tapestry; what do you say? I've already made it an open blog so anyone can read it but haven't announced it anywhere--I think one or more of you may have mentioned it to others and that's great. But I'm going to make it more visible by posting about it to both the tapestry list that Kathe Todd-Hooker owns and Weavolution. Those of you who have been students of mine in the recent past are authors to this post--meaning you can create new posts at anytime you want to but you can't add to the side bar or make overall changes to the format of the blog--I'm the blog administrator and can do that. If you want to have anything added, please just let me know and I'll be happy to try to oblige.

I would like to add others as authors, as well. Maybe those who are recommended by you, me or others from the tapestry list, ATA, Tapestry Weavers South, etc. In other words, folks as authors who have an abiding interest in the making of handwoven tapestry, whether beginner, intermediate or more advanced in their skill level.

I'd like to do this for two reasons--one, of course, being to keep in touch with all of the wonderful people who've been in classes with me. Another is that I'm finding blogging an extremely useful way to share images with each other--rather than through e-mail attachments. If you don't want design or finished tapestry works on the web in a public way, please don't post them. If you do post your design/tapestry works, please state your copyright note about it. However, I think there are lots of tips, tricks, techniques that we can share with others that will add to the ongoing development of us all as tapestry makers.

So... let's get this car on the road!
Here's a link to my own blog posting about the finishing of my most recent tapestry to get us started: http://tapestry13.blogspot.com/2009/11/tapestry-finishing-process.html