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@pips-left-paw.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:26 AM

Got in a little #weaving time today, so weaving season is officially open (in my house). #handweaving 🧶

A loom with a coppery peach warp of wool/silk. The first few patterns are woven: a tubular double weave hem, then three twill patterns woven for about 3 inches each. The weft is variegated black, blue, green, and ochre handspun BFL wool.

An earlier view with a closeup of the variegated weft on the shuttle.

The back of the loom. Orderly warps are nice to look at.

@jessica-handweaver.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:53 PM

I've had my first ever weaving article published in the latest issue of WEFT Magazine! This is a baby blanket made from leftover cones of cotton yarn. Check it out at www.weftmagazine.com. #weftmagazine #handweaving
#weavingcloth #supporttheweavingcommunity #weaver

@pips-left-paw.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 8:18 PM

The guts of the Toika dobby loom mechanism as I open and close sheds using the (sole, sewing machine style) treadle. #weaving #handweaving 🧶

@pips-left-paw.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 8:14 PM

Warp is fully laced on, only needs a little tension-leveling before weaving. Dobby maintenance is done. Now it is too hot up here so I am headed outside. #handweaving #weaving 🧶

A view from a ladder while lubricating the dobby. The loom is more of less ready to weave now. The top of the image is a gray stool with a shuttle on it. Then the warp is lashed onto the apron stick with fat linen yarn. The beater just looks like a hefty slab of timber, and then the front shafts are visible at the bottom along with the side of case for the electronic dobby mechanism.

@pips-left-paw.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:45 PM

Back at the loom, threading and now sleying, for a fine Saturday (and I spose #Caturday) morning with supervision from Pips #handweaving #weaving 🧶

Sleying the reed two per dent for 24 ends per inch. The image shows various peach and copper weft yarn bundles and many vertical white strings of Texsolv heddles. About four inches of the warp - on the right hand side, is sleyed through the reed which is suspended horizontally. The next bundle is ready to go, and the red sley hook is poking up through the reed.

Pips the tabby cat is surveilling the neighborhood from the windowsill beside the loom. The loom reed is visible in the foreground, and the window is framed with linen curtains.

Pips has turned back to her surveillance and is loafing in the windowsill with her stripy tail dangling into the room.

@pips-left-paw.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 8:46 PM

First warp for the winter weaving season is going onto the big loom (despite it being very warm and sunny and enticing outside). #handweaving #weaving 🧶

A close look at various coppery peachy shades of a wool silk yarn running through a tension box.

The tension box is mounted on the back beam of a large loom. The yarns for the warp are coming from cones on a wall-mounted (and very DIY) creel on the wall behind the front of the loom. The threads come through from the creel on thread guides on a suspended stick and freely over another dowel to keep them all clear of the loom shafts.

A wider view showing some of the bouts already beamed and secured with tape.

@atelierglenmiva.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 8:20 PM

The next weaving project a brown cotton and weaving at the perfect time as the sun shined in when I was weaving. #weaving #handweaving #handwoven #cotton #fabric #handcrafted #handmade #textile #textileart #cottonfabric #smallbusiness #weavers #brown #brownfabric #loom #handloom #sun #sunshine

@templemom.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 11:40 AM

Cleaned out the linen closet and discovered a handwoven shawl that I made years ago. I had tucked it in with the tablecloths after using it as an altar cloth and getting wax on it. 😆 Time to get it back out and use it again!

#FiberArts #Handweaving #Handwoven #Pagan #AltarCloth

Photo of a handwoven plaid shawl draped over a chair, with a white wall and golden wood flooring in the background. The shawl is a cotton twill weave in shades of navy blue, forest green, and burgundy with fringe along both narrow ends.

@atelierglenmiva.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 12:23 AM

Not perfect but as my first ever weaving project very happy with it. #weaving #handweaving #handwoven #cotton #fabric #handcrafted #handmade #textile #textileart #cottonfabric #smallbusiness #weavers #houndstooth #dogstooth #purple #blue #cottonfabric #bluefabric #purplefabric #loom #handloom