{"id":4428,"date":"2010-10-29T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unikatissima-e.riamore.eu\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2010-10-20T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T06:56:53","slug":"cardboard-heddle-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=4428","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard Heddle Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"links\"><a href=\"#li101029\"><strong>Links of entry<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Recently I got to know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionweaver.com\">Travis<\/a> and he showed us how the weaving really works ;-)<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJlaxase0F0\">video<\/a> where he shows how you can try to weave with a little cardboard, a pencil and a lot of wool &#8211; I find this a great idea, surely also great for children&#8217;s birthday parties ;-)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionweaver.com\">Travis<\/a> weaves &#8216;real&#8217; fabric &#8211; also on his cardboard loom &#8211; whereas I&#8217;m pulling the weft quite firm and weave a strap.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Here my steps:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom b.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nFirst I cut the heddle from cardboard (from a cereals packing).<br \/>\nBecause the cardboard is rather stiff I didn&#8217;t fold it but draw the 10 lines and then cut them with an X-acto knife.<br \/>\nThen I punched the 9 holes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom c.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nAs you can see I used different coloured threads: 2 blue, 2 white, 3 blue, 2 white, 1 blue and back again.<br \/>\nThe shuttle is cut &#8211; as suggested by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionweaver.com\">Travis<\/a> ;-) &#8211; from cardboard, too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom d.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nI always pulled the weft very firm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom e.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Cardboard Heddle Loom\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s how my strap looks.<br \/>\nI like it ;-))<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"li101029\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJlaxase0F0\">Learn How To Weave with Paper Index Cards<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionweaver.com\">Actionweaver<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links of entry Recently I got to know Travis and he showed us how the weaving really works ;-) There&#8217;s a video where he shows how you can try to weave with a little cardboard, a pencil and a lot of wool &#8211; I find this a great idea, surely also great for children&#8217;s birthday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=4428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cardboard Heddle Loom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,86,88],"tags":[487,489,490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}