TINKERBELL AT THE LOOM

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

TINKERBELL AT THE LOOM

Take a piece of thick cardboard measuring 3Qin x 6Jin and with pencil and ruler, mark it so that you make positions for holes at each end of the cardboard. (Fig. 1). Then you can punch the holes with a small nail and a hammer. Now mount the loom by slipping the wool, threaded in the needle, through hole 1, down to hole A, up through B to hole 2, over to hole 3, down to C, and so on, making long scarf length stitches until the threading is complete. Tie a knot in each end to prevent the wool

pulling through the holes. The threads bo arranged are called warp threads, and the croea threads, which are put on later, are called the weft threads. When you thread the needle with a long length of wool work the needle under and over alternate warp threads at the bottom of the loom, and then pull the wool through. The next row is done in the same way, except that the underneath thread in the first row becomes the top thread in the second

"And there .he weayed by night and day, a magic web of colours 2? y ye **. Tmkerbell ■ present hobby i« none other than weaving. Ihe materials used were raffia and twine, but if you have your own yarn, so much the better. As you become more expert and your lingers grow accustomed to handling the long threads, all kinds of colour combinations will suggest themselves to you! Of course, your first consideration is a loom, and this is how you make it.

row. For a. plain scarf, repeat this method of weaving until the work is complete.

If you use « shred stick (Fig. 2) which is threaded through every alternate warp thread, it . will be easy to paea the needle and wool between the warp for every second row. Another useful appliance is a spreader (Fig. 2). Pins are driven into a gtick at a space equal the width of the scarf, and then it is placed between the outside warp threads to keep the width of the scarf uniform throughout. When the weaving is complete oversew the edges and the ends, cut away the cardboard loom, and cut the loops on each end of the scarf with scissors to form a neat fringe. Border desi<m can be easily arranged by using coloured wools for a few rows at each end. Of course you need not stop at scarves, but from the pieces of woven material you can fashion purses and other articles.