Reading Time: 3 minutesIn preparation for an event, Archaeology of the Dark Ages at Bishops Wood Environmental Centre (near Stourport, Worcestershire), mentioned in the last post, I’ve been helping to set up a Saxon style warp-weighted loom. Nina, Deborah and I battled with metres (or yards, in old money) of flax yarn for several hours as this is a job that takes […]
Weaving
Norwegian Warp-weighted Loom Weavers
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m re-visiting the ancient (as in thousands of years old) craft of warp-weighted loom weaving in order to share some links to film made in the 1940s and 1950s in Norway. I’m sure many who are interested in weaving will be glad the films are still in existence. Last November I described the process in […]
Warp-weighted Loom Weaving: Ancient Ways of Making Cloth
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe journey from flax crop in the field to finished linen cloth (even before washing and bleaching) has many steps. The transformation from a retted sheath of flax, from the field to flax fibres ready for warp-weighted loom weaving is remarkable. We start with scratchy and straw-like and end with floppy and silky. It takes […]
