Trying out the new loom - bookmarks!

Assorted Bookmarks

June 2024

Materials: Maysville Carpet Warp (8/4 Cotton)

Tools: weaving cards, tablet weaving loom

To take the new loom out for a spin with some smaller projects, I made a bunch of bookmarks to give out to friends and family. For most of these, I used the double-face approach I've described previously. Since it can be more or less thought of as pixel art, I didn't really need to draft things out much, and could sort of come up with the designs as I went along, with some trial and error, and occasionally using graph paper to plan portions.

 

This was fun - just making some silly little pictures with my homemade loom. It was a great way to get comfortable with a different way of weaving, without immediately investing a ton of time into a big project. When I finished weaving a bookmark, I'd cut it off the loom, fold the top end over a little wooden dowel (cut from gardening stakes), and sew it down. This is a great way of making little personalized gifts, and I'm sure I'll make more someday when I need another break from big projects.