and offered the loan of a table-top loom. When set up, it provided an introduction to the art of weaving for the members of all different interests and backgrounds, and many of them have been ...

Guertin said weaving is in her blood. “When I was 9, my grandmother gave me a 4-shaft table loom and told me that my great-grandmother in Sweden was a weaver, and she said I was to be a weaver.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

Holding her first weaving, a table runner, Simpson recalled the first time she sat down at the loom. "It was a powerful moment," she said. "I had goose bumps and thought, 'This is what I love.'" ...

The warp-weighted loom uses a system of holding the warp threads parallel under tension by tying them in small bunches to weights made of stone, pottery or metal. From the beginning of Western history ...

John Gledhill, of New York City, has mad several improvements in looms, most of whicl are for weaving hair cloth, an article whicl: has heretolore been manufactured but slowly owing to the ...

Abdul Sattar stands in a dimly lit aisle surrounded by dozens of electric-powered looms that make a rhythmic din several ...