Do you know how to weave?

Weaving is easy, and if I can find it I have a link to free plans to make a standing table loom that works like the big ones, so you don't have to weave the thread in and out. I have a large standing loom myself, that I built from scrap wood, and you create the weave by pushing the pedals on the bottom, not weaving with your fingers. The smaller table top models work the same way-- you feed the thread or yarn through and push the lever, moving the back warp threads to the front and send the weft, or weaving thread through again. I have been meaning to look for the plans so I can build one for making smaller projects since it is easier than always re-threading my big one-- when I find the plans I'll send you the link through PM. They can be built for only a few dollars worth of materials, even free if you collect scrap wood. Where I live, you can get all the wood you want from the dump for 5.00, so a regularly go over and collect a whole truckload. That way, I always have wood to build and repair with. Someone threw out an entire hardwood floor earlier this summer-- the kind that costs 15.00 a square foot. I brought home enough to cover the concrete floor in my workroom-- 12 by 14 feet-- and it only cost me 5.00 and 2 days work to put down. I also built my floor loom last year, and it's 6 feet wide-- so I can weave king sized blankets on it. I was amazed at how easy they are to build and use, since I had been doing the old fashioned frame weaving before that. You could probably do the frame weaving even with bad hands-- my grandmother did, she just used a large crochet hook to pull the yarn through, and frame weavers are just a square frame with nails across the top and bottom that you tie the warp threads to.

Hi marguicha, yeah, I learned knitting online too, especially youtube, it's easier for us to follow step by step. Hi chrystalia, Thanks for sending me the links, I'd love to see them. ^_^

Woven pot holder is really a good thing to weave, and it's very useful too. What is digital weaving?

Hi cher, A real weaving loom is the big one, is it? I do not know where I can buy those looms here, it doesn't seem common here.

You mean we can also use finger to weave? Well, I am interested in that, and will find out more about it. Yeah, I think it's a good activity for kids, I want to learn it so that I can do it together with my son, or teach my son to do it later. I have not seen those plastic looms selling in the local stores, perhaps I'll try to get one online. I don't know we can even make scarfs from the loom. Thanks for sharing!

I think weaving is good for children too. Do you know at what age do the children start weaving? I just made a simple weaving tool for my son, he is interested but has not yet learned to weave yet. He is 3.5 years old.

You are welcome. I've read that kids at aged 6 should be able to learn weaving, can weave a bag or something. ^_^

Hi youless, Thanks for sharing the link, it's a different weaving, but it's worth to try it out too. I didn't know there's a mom section in eHow, I am checking out the Kids activities and see if I can find any good ones for my kids now!

Hi Raine, I learned knitting online too, I think it's not too difficult while following the instructions in youtube, as the video teaches step by step. Perhaps it's good to start from the basic, perhaps you just learned the more complicated techniques?