Building a beading loom11/15/2023 ![]() I got another large frame, added nails to the top and bottom only, and figured out a shedding device to lift my warp threads. I liked working upright but it was difficult to get and keep an even tension on a warp that large, plus I wanted to have an option of being able to lift the warp threads for faster/easier weaving and the frame I was using had nails on all 4 sides. ![]() But looms are expensive so I adapted a triangle loom I already had into a larger version of what I had used at summer school. When I came home I was inspired to try weaving a larger tapestry. Here I saw vertical/high warp looms built of steel scaffolding pipe. ![]() Click here for a wonderful visual tour of the studio. This is a perfect studio space with tons of natural light from the glass ceiling, the pool has been filled in to make the weaving floor, the changing rooms have been turned into office and meeting rooms, and the observation walkway is used as gallery space. The Dovecot Studio moved into the space in 2009 after a 2 year – £12million renovation. The building that now houses the Dovecot Studio is the old ‘Infirmary Street Baths’, the first public baths in Edinburgh – built in 1885, designed by Robert Morham – and I used to swim there in the mid 1970’s when I was a student at Edinburgh University! The baths closed in the 1990’s and fell into disrepair. When I walked into the space I was immediately hit with a déjà vu experience = I’ve been here before! Midweek we took a field trip to the Dovecot Tapestry Studio in Edinburgh. Our instructor, Dot Seddon, had us working on simple frame looms which are very portable, fast and easy to warp, plus I brought along one that I had made. The summer of 2011 I took my first tapestry weaving course at The Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers summer school held in Edinburgh, Scotland that year.
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