Episode 14: Rigid-Heddle Weaving (with Betty Davenport)
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
Download Episode 14: Rigid Heddle Weaving (with Betty Davenport)
posted by Syne Mitchell at 4:41 PM
8 Comments:
Excellent episode, as always. Made me really glad to own Betty Davenport's book, and eager to weave again.
Congratulations on the grant award! Weavecast deserves to be supported, as it's wonderful source of inspiration for beginning weavers like me. Thank you.
Congrats on the grant and the TWO (no less!) articles in Handwoven!! And, as always, it was VERY inspiring. Something to keep me going while my weaving studio is in boxes. Listening to your podcast won't keep them in there for long. ;)
Sybil
Thanks for the mention - I wasn't expecting that! Neat to hear hooping get mentioned.. I'm coming to Seattle next weekend, let me know if you want me to bring one for you!
Listening to this episode inspired me to put together a submission for your contest - teaching myself and my coworkers how to weave on the triangular loom that my dad and sister made for me one Christmas, long ago... and also to think a bit more about getting a rigid heddle loom myself, to play :)
(oh, and it inspired me to keep working on my sound quality! Thanks for playing my promo!)
Once again I want to thank you ever so much for a great pod-cast, and congratulations on the grant and the articles!
I am currently writing a small review on your podcast for our members in the Society of Handweavers in Stockholm.
Today "you joined me" for a walk through a sunny springtime Stockholm. I really enjoyed your company! Take care!
I finally am home long enough to listen to another wonderful episode! I've been telling you WeaveCast is the best thing to happen to weaving in this century. I am delighted to know I am not the only one who thinks so.
Cast On!
syne, i am not a weaver (the only weaving being potholders on one of those kind of looms), but i enjoy hearing your voice on the quirky nomads podcast.
Syne,
I've now caught up with all your back podcasts, and listened to show 14 April 10 -- how lovely to hear Suzanne Gaston-Voûte is still teaching! I'm a second-generation weaver; my mother, Mary Temple, took her classes in the Twin Cities in the 1960s and '70s, and became one of the teachers at the MN Weavers Guild during that huge boom in weaving that happened in the 1970s and continues to this day in the combined MN Textile Center.
Thank you for using some of your grant money for transcriptions - it makes a huge difference.
Congratulations on your podcasting anniversary!
-Ruth
Brenda:
Thanks! I love that you just called yourself a beginning weaver. ;> Thank you
for being such a podcasty inspiration and for raising the bar of internet-radio excellence.
Sybil:
Thanks. You make me blush. It was an honor to be asked to write the endnotes as well. Glad I could provide a bit of virtual weaving during your downtime.
Christa:
Thanks for the gorgeous hoop (in WeaveCast colors no less!) It was fun being interviewed by you, and to be able to put a face to the voice. Happy Podcasting!
Erika:
I got to virtually walk through Stockholm? How very cool. Thank you for the write-up Society of Handweavers in Stockholm!
Bonnie:
Welcome home! It's great to hear from you. I'm eagerly awaiting a Weaving Spirit blog update. Best thing this century? Again, I blush. Good thing it's a young century. ;>
Marti:
Potholders are weaving! Thanks for the nice note about my work on Quirky Nomads. It's always a treat when Sage lets me come play in her podcasty sandbox.
Ru:
Thank you for the nice note about WeaveCast! I'll pass your good words about the transcripts on to Laura Fry, our lovely and talented volunteer transcriptionist.
>my mother, Mary Temple, took her classes in the Twin Cities in the 1960s
I love how the show weaves together folks who haven't heard from each other in a while.
Happy Weaving Everyone!
Syne
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