Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts

Christmas Wreath Hangers

make fabulous warping board hangers, too.

2 Christmas wreath hangers can be readily obtained and allow you to hang the warping board to a door with the small side up - makes warping less stressful on the bones and is the board is easily removed for storage.

Joy Bergman

Betty's recipe for Fraying Preventer

Mix 1/3 Duco Cement® and 2/3 Acetone. Both products are readily available at the hardware store. (Use it to refill those expensive Fray Check bottles!)

Betty TerLouw via Diane Click

Floating Selvages

Floating salvages are placed on the bottom half of a Styrofoam cup split into two parts to make it higher thus more stable.

Janet Beck

Taking Off a Sample

To take your sample or finished weaving off the loom while retaining your warp, weave ½ inch of plain weave and put Fray Check on. Let it dry or use a hair dryer to speed this step up. Place a dowel in the loose thread and use shoe strings to secure the new warp to your front breast beam or bar.

Janet Beck

S-Hooks

have many uses in weaving: stabilizing and weighing selvedge threads is one of them.

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