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WOODEN HEDDLE FOR WEAVING TAPES

Do you remember making macrame bracelets? There is a similar, yet much older textile technique - weaving tapes on a small heddle. It is a very simple tool, which will help you make durable thin woven tapes, useful everywhere, where you need strong strings, belts, laces. It is also a wonderful tool for introducing children to weaving.

18.00 €

These tapes, called in our area Gypsy tapes, were made as a warp-faced fabric, where the warp threads completely cover the weft thread. They served as a functional or decorative hems, laces, shoulder straps, belts, or just as surprisingly durable and strong tie strings.

The weaving principle is the same as on any rigid-heddle loom. 

  • There are alternating slits and holes in the wooden tool and after threading thin yarns into these you get a simple warp. 

  • Both ends of yarns are to be tied (for example one onto your belt and on onto a chair), so that the warp is tensioned. 

  • By moving the heddle up and down the yarns change their position and you thread the weft yarn in between. 

  • The length and colours are up to you, of course! :-)

The heddle is made locally, by our crafty woodmaker friends in Modra.

Size:

  • 14,5x7 cm

  • 8 slits, 9 holes - size for 17 threads