![]() ![]() PDF DOWNLOAD (5.4MB) - ©Bucilla Corporation. ![]() (Permission granted to offer these files here for your personal use only.) PDF DOWNLOAD (3MB) - ©Bucilla Corporation. "Bucilla Dictionary of Magic-Loom Weaving Stitches." Vol. "Jiffy-Loom Book of Novelty Weaving." Hollywood, California: Calcraft Co., 1942. ![]() Novelty Weaving Suggestions “Jiffy-Loom pattern, Original Ideas.” Glendale, California: Calcraft Corporation, 1937. "Loomette King Pattern Weaves." Los Angeles, California: Loomette Studios, Division of Albin Enterprises, 1951. "Original Loomette Weaves." Los Angeles, California: Loomette Studios, 1949. "The Loomette Handbook-New Weaves, Vogues and Suggestions." Los Angeles, California: Cartercraft Studios, 1938. "Loomette Afghans and Bags, Patterns and Specifications." Los Angeles, California: Cartercraft Studios, 1937. "Original Loomette Weaves." Los Angeles, California: Cartercraft Studios, 1937. "Loomette Garments and Gift Suggestions." Los Angeles, California: Cartercraft Studios, 1936 Medford, Massachusetts: Donar Products, Corp., 1945. "Wee Weave-It Woolies." Medford, Massachusetts: Donar Products, Corp., 1943. Medford, Massachusetts: Donar Products, Corp., 1939. Medford, Massachusetts: Donar Products Corp., 1938. Medford, Massachusetts: Donar Products Corp., 1937. Medford, Massachusetts: Donar Products, Corp., 1937. Medford, Massachusetts: Donar Products Corp., 1936. ![]() "The Weave-It Book." Medford, Massachusetts: Donar Products, Corp., 1936. "Weave-It Direction Book." Medford, Massachusettes: Kiddy-Crafters, 1934. You’ll be amazed at what people were making with 4” squares! It’s worthwhile to try to acquire at least a few of these. This will be yarn waste, but usually not too much as I prefer an ikat shifted look.Companies who produced the old hand looms also published books of weaving and project patterns, single patterns, patterns in needlework and women’s magazines, and patterns to enclose with the looms. If the pooling starts to get way off, I will wrap a few times around the starting peg. The color pooling will naturally feather as I wind. Step 5: Use the same starting peg and wind your loop and end on the same peg. I measure out my guide string in a continuous loop or circle using my warping board and a plate rack! This may be a little different than some might recommend, but I strive for as little yarn waste as possible. Step 3: It is usually helpful to make a guide string the length of circumference 63” x 2.5 repeats is 157.5” or 4.38 yards. Step 2: Determine the length of your project or the length of an overall warp that is closest to the length of the yarns you are using them with. Step 1: Find the circumference of a painted skein. Therefore I have more recently decided to color-pool for a purpose to use in intended portions of a draft! This means if I’m using it with warps of 4.0 or 4.5 yards, there will be some yarn waste. I do not turn on an ending peg like I do as I wind my other warps! Because I often weave or combine them with other warps, I have found that the closest yardage I can wind with many of my dyed skeins of 63” circumference is 4.38 yards. I wind my warp in a continuous loop or circle and using the same peg to start with is critical. I have seen weavers use warping mills and some use their warping boards. As weavers, some of our warping tools might make it helpful or more challenging. Daryl Lancaster also has an example in her Chaos Draft that you may purchase from her website. One of the best blogs I have seen was published by Syne Mitchell in 2012 I believe. There are many blogs and resources about color-pooling. Color-pooling can be time consuming, but really worth the effort! I often will color-pool a small amount for a color accent in a warp rather than color-pooling an entire skein of 500 yards. Those beautiful dyed skeins! What can be done with them if you want to plan something in addition to a random weft weaving? Sometimes the colors in a hand-dyed skein can be just what you need to plan a project with other solid or hand-dyed yarns. ![]()
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