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Published: 2009-02-03 23:05:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 4156; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 235
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First time trying tablet weaving.Nobody really taught me; I dug the instructions out of the intrawebs. Here are some good sites for beginners:
housebarra.com/EP/ep04/22table… and homepage.ntlworld.com/shelagh.… explain the basic technique and how to make the tablets.
I didn't create the patterns; the first one is from here koti.mbnet.fi/almie/lautanauha… and the second is an adaptation of a pattern found on the GTT application homepage: www.guntram.co.za/tabletweavin…
Overall, the craft is much fun, albeit quite slow. Try it out!
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wow, that was your first try at tablet weaving? you must be a genius 
it's really fun doing this, but i have a lot of trouble warping the loom, i always end up having one or more tablets warped the wrong way :/.
congratulations
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Thanks.
Well, this was the first finished piece of work in about... seventeen years. I remember attempting to learn the technique out of curiosity when I was 11-12, but never really completed anything. I recalled the basic idea when I started again a couple of weeks back, but I think those websites gave pretty good guidance. I'm not claiming I didn't have troubles during the first few hours and later on. I ended up re-arranging the threads a couple of times and undoing and redoing several segments of the belt(s). I don't really even have a proper loom. The threads have been attached to the armrest of a sofa. 
I have the same problem with the tablets, but I try to keep track of their alignment with a numbering scheme. It really helps when the pattern starts looking more or less deformed. Also some corrections can be done with needle and string afterwards.
I need to redo my tablets now, though, as some of them broke down during the second work. Gotta get some better material than cardboard.
(BTW, saw your loom. Way nifty!
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I did my cards with thin wood, they are 5x5 cms and there's 26 of them. I need to make some more but i didn't have money enough to buy more wood
My loom is cool
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That is so cool. I've never been able to wrap my brain around how to do this, and that design you used is really pretty!
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This looks like something I'd love to do... Never heard of it before, really.
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Very very good, especially if these are your first tries. 
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Very cool! That belt looks amazing (and professional).
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That is so cool. O_O Aaah makes me want to go out and buy yarn so I can my myself an awesome belt.
I really like that pattern in those colors.
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That looks like it would be a good way to relax or perhaps get rather frustrated if things go wrong. Still it looks like it would be quite fun to try.
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I think Ive done something similar...like, weaving...we attached some yarn to this board, going vertical, then wove other pieces horizontally...It was really pretty...dont knonw where mine is now...lost in moves.
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