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𝑯 𝑬 𝑳 𝑫 𝑬 ✺ Handweaving Studio
@studiohelde.bsky.social
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✺ Weaving limited edition, modern heirloom textiles on a wooden, foot-powered floor loom
✺ Natural fibres 𓇢𓆸 Linen, wool & cotton
✺ '𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘦' 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𓎖
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Happy #FriendshipDay!
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#margueriteporterdavison #weaving #handweaving #friendshiptwill #väv #vävning #handweaversofinstagram #handweaverspatternbook
Friendship twill weaving draft by Marguerite Porter Davison
July 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The first of the one-of-a-kind handwoven merino scarves that will be available at the studio in August for #HampshireOpenStudios!
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#hampshireopenstudios2025
#winchester #hampshire #8shaft #weaving #artiststudio #textileartist #textileart #heritagecrafts #weaving #handweaving #väv #vävning
Textured scarf woven in intersecting bands of orange, pink, yellow, burgundy, beige, and cream. Fabric is casually folded.
July 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Winding on a new warp on the loom this evening. For a vintage, 70's era loom, this colour scheme must feel like déjà vu 😂
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#väv #vävning #handweaving #loom #8shaft #countermarche #merino #70saesthetic #burntorange #rust #terracotta #handwovenscarf #textilestudio #textiles #textiledesign #weaving
Merino warp in shades of white, cream, burnt orange, rust, terracotta, bright orange being wound onto a wooden floor loom Merino warp in shades of white, cream, burnt orange, rust, terracotta, bright orange being wound onto a wooden floor loom
July 4, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Last one!! 😰
#handwoven #weaving #8shaft #neverendingwarp #floorloom #countermarche #floorloom #teatowels #heritagecraft
Striped warp in shades of burgundy, orange, green, lavender, cream on a wooden countermarche floor loom. Weft is woven with stripes of beige, brown and cream. Pattern is 8 shaft M's and W's twill, woven in 8/2 cotton for tea towels.
June 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Weavers of Bluesky! My trusty bobbin winder has started skipping/jamming...is there anything I can do to adjust/fix it? 😭 #weaving #8shaft #4shaft #väv #vävning #handweaving #loom #loomweaving #oxberg #weave
Metal bobbin winder, winding lime green 8/2 cotton thread. Winder has a wooden handle.
June 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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#teatowel #kitchentowel #handwoven #väv #8shaft #stricklerincolor #weaving #slowhome #textiles #vävning #msandws #textiledesign
Colourful striped warp being woven on a wooden 8 shaft loom into tea towels with intersecting orange and blue horizontal and vertical stripes.
May 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I thought i was being wild for bringing my pants to hand sew at the auto shop while my car gets worked on but then a lady walked in after me and unpacked a full on table loom or something
April 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Seashore, Nova Scotia | J. E. H. MacDonald
#ArtNouveau #Modern
March 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Rhymes with Orange 🍊 Plotting some future woven scarf projects using awkward shades of orange I've purchased 😂 Possibly just trying to console myself that I haven't made a terrible error, that any colour can be beautiful in the right pairing #weaving #8shaft #colourtheory #juxtaposition #balance
Pinterest board with abstract patterns containing various shades of orange plus other colours Pinterest board with abstract patterns containing various shades of orange plus other colours Pinterest board with abstract patterns containing various shades of orange plus other colours
March 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Might put in some horizontal bands of orange with the weft for the next one, but for this one I thought I'd just stick with greens and see how it looks. Quite like this savoury/mid-century/old campervan upholstery vibe #teatowel #handwoven #väv #8shaft #stricklerincolor #weaving #slowhome #textiles
Tea towel being woven on an old wooden floor loom. Cloth is being woven in intersecting horizontal and vertical bands of green, orange, white, purple and maroon. A wooden boat shuttle is currently filled with a bobbin of pale green thread. Tea towel being woven on an old wooden floor loom. Cloth is being woven in intersecting horizontal and vertical bands of green, orange, white, purple and maroon. A wooden boat shuttle is currently filled with a bobbin of pale green thread. Tea towel being woven on an old wooden floor loom. Cloth is being woven in intersecting horizontal and vertical bands of green, orange, white, purple and maroon. A wooden boat shuttle is currently filled with a bobbin of pale green thread. In the background you can see windows and an old sewing machine.
March 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Can anyone recommend any regular online zoom textile 'work together in companionable silence' meetups? Ideally a weekday evening, in a UK-friendly timezone? If not, any interest in starting one? #textile #weaving #spinning #sewing #embroidery #felting #rigidheddle #loomweaving #inkleloom #inkle
Giovanni Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris (On Famous Women), 1374, illustration showing women spinning, carding, and weaving wool
March 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Another evening kitchen towel underway 🌜
#weaving #textiledesign #stricklerincolour #stricklerincolor #8shaft
Cloth is being woven on a large wooden floor loom. The cloth is woven in a 'plaid' pattern, with intersecting horizontal and vertical bands of orange, maroon, purple, green and peach.
March 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Nice bit of sun coming through the studio windows this afternoon! 🌞 I moved studios/built this backyard loom shed in September so I'm curious to see what the summer light will be like (north facing) #weaving #textiles #textilestudio #8shaft
Old wooden loom with 'plaid' fabric being woven in vertical and horizontal intersecting bands of maroon, orange, green, purple, teal. A bit of sun is shining through the curtains behind the loom.
March 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I learned to weave through Saturday morning classes at a local weavers' guild when I was a teenager. See image for vibe 😂 If anyone has any information about this illustration please share! According to Pinterest it's from Milan #weaving #medieval #multishaft
Medieval manuscript illustration possibly from Milan (according to Pinterest) showing a woman dressed in white weaving on a wooden floor loom weaving a white cloth, another woman in white creating a warp on a warping board, and another figure in the corner possibly spinning, although it is difficult to make out. There is text handwritten below the image in a medieval style.
March 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Monday night tea towel weaving 🌜
#weaving #8shaft #textiledesign #stricklerincolor #loom
Plaid tea towel in horizontal and vertical shades of orange, maroon, green, purple and orange being woven on an old wooden floor loom. The wooden boat shuttle is currently loaded with a bobbin of lavender coloured thread Plaid tea towel in horizontal and vertical shades of orange, maroon, green, purple and orange being woven on an old wooden floor loom. The wooden boat shuttle is currently loaded with a bobbin of lavender coloured thread
March 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/v... @archive.org (an interesting read!)

#knitting #textiles #analogue #machineknitting #jacquard #weaving #knittingmachine #analog #crafts #design
Knitting machine punch card featuring a diagonal geometric striped pattern punched into a long rectangular card Vintage black and white photograph of a person in a patterned blouse and skirt operating a large wooden jacquard loom
March 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Anna B Ehlers, a Tlingit of the Chilkat tribe, Alaska, skilled master weaver #womensart
Photo, outdoors, of two indigenous women wearing woven cloaks decorated with symbolic motifs and with a long fringe
February 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The colours make more sense IRL, but only just 😂
#weaving #handweaving #teatowel #stricklerincolor #strickler #textiles ##woventextiles #textiledesign
Fabric with intersecting vertical and horizontal stripes of purple, orange, green and burgundy being woven on an old wooden floor loom.
February 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Jacques LaGrange, Les Lissiers (The Weavers), designed 1948, woven 1950, cotton and wool. #tapestry #weaving
A rectangular tapestry woven in warm hues of red, orange, peach, yellow, pale grey-blue and black, featuring abstracted figure(s) weaving, spinning and winding warps on reels (I think).
February 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Ernest Biéler (1863 –1948), Swiss. "La Tisserande" (The Weaver Woman).
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#weaving #heddle #woodenheddle #backstrapweaving #backstraploom #bandloom #bandweaving #rigidheddle #slöjd
Painting of a woman in a room with wooden floors and walls. She is sitting on a green bench, wearing a black bonnet, white blouse and black and white striped apron. She is using a large wooden rigid heddle with a back strap loom, threaded with white warp threads.
February 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Ooh this is quite addictive! Thank you @woodmungler.bsky.social for my gorgeous new wooden heddle! I'm hoping by the end of this warp my edges will be more even 😂 but it's exciting to feel like a beginner! #rigidheddle #woodenheddle #backstrapweaving #weaving #woodcarving
A hand-carved wooden rigid heddle with painted red mushrooms carved into the top. A striped orange, green and purple cotton warp has been threaded into the holes and slots in the heddle, with striped woven tape at one end. Heddle and wooden stick shuttle (wound with orange thread) is flat-layed on a wooden surface.
February 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Phew! Now the fun begins! 🌈🧵
#weaving #8shaft #stricklerincolour
Striped burgundy, orange and green warp being wound onto a wooden floor loom, weighted by milk jugs filled with water
February 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Ends all tied together! Time to detangle and wind on (tomorrow!) 🥱🌜
#weaving #8shaft #studiodog #floorloom #countermarche #winchester #hampshire
Burgundy, orange, green and purple warp threads being wound onto a wooden floor loom. A small brown and white dog is sitting in a dog bed next to the loom. Burgundy, orange, green and purple striped warp threads tied to previous beige warp ends on a wooden floor loom
February 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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I bought some weaving yarn online that turned out a bit more 'electric salmon' in real life than I had anticipated. May have found some colour scheme inspo this evening to make it work! Oil paintings by Friedrich Koko Micoletzky (Austrian/Czech,1887-1981)
Painting of a dark river with a tree trunk in the foreground. Spruce trees and forested mountains in the background. Banks are covered in snow. Snowcapped mountains in background are pink and blue. Winter scene painting. Three spruce trees on a mountain. The mountain in the background is bathed in pink light Winter scene (painting) with snow-covered spruce trees in foreground and snowy mountain range bathed in pink light in the background. Painted winter scene of a wooden cabin in the foreground surrounded by spruce trees and snowy mountains in the background bathed in orangey pink light.
February 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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(Nearly) halfway!
#weaving #8shaft #handweaving #teatowels
Wooden floor loom being dressed with a striped (orange, purple, green,peach) warp by tying the new warp threads onto the ends of the previous warp.
February 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM