14: Rigid-Heddle Weaving

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Discover just how much you can do with the humble rigid-heddle loom! Our guest, Betty Linn Davenport, shares her techniques for taking the rigid-heddle loom to new heights. We review the new "Flip" folding rigid-heddle loom from Schacht, as well as Betty Davenport's book, Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving , answer a listener question about setts for knitting yarns, I share great news from this past week, and we get an update on the "Teach a Friend to Weave" contest.

Resources (mentioned during the show)

• March/April 2007 Handwoven magazine
• Handweavers Guild of America (HGA)
• Interweave Press/HGA Teach-it-Forward Grant
• Jasmine Weaver Blog
• Halcyon Yarn
• Webs
• Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving by Betty Linn Davenport
• Schacht "Flip" Loom

Muscial Guests

• “Weave The Yarn” by Mary Knickle
• "Sunrise" by Torchomatic

• Artist: Syne Mitchell
• Title: 14: Rigid-Heddle Weaving
• Album: WeaveCast: A podcast for handweavers
• Genre: Podcast
• Year: 2007
• Length: 58:41 minutes (53.77 MB)
• Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)