5 Essential Tips for Using a Pick-Up Stick with a Rigid-Heddle Loom
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Learn to use pick-up sticks efficiently with the five tips in this video excerpt. Weaver and instructor Sara Bixler begins by describing the importance of stick length and width, and how to use the beveled edge correctly. Then, she shares two valuable tips for picking up warp ends and storing a picked-up pattern. With these five tips under your belt, you’ll find using a pick-up stick on your rigid-heddle loom exciting and fun.
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If you love these tips, you'll love learning how to use a pick-up stick to weave beautiful lace. In Sara's course, Huck Lace on the Rigid-Heddle Loom, she provides everything you need to get started, including how to:
• Weave lacy fabric using a rigid-heddle loom and pick-up stick
• Read and follow a lace pattern
• Handle a pick-up stick with confidence
• Vary and combine lace units in your weaving
Along with video instruction, the included tips, techniques, and bonus napkins pattern will help you get started. You'll be weaving elegant lace fabric in no time! Join Sara today at learn.longthreadmedia.com/cou....
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:09 Pick-up stick length
0:25 Using the beveled edge
1:01 Pick-up stick width
1:52 Only pick up slot threads
2:21 Pick up behind the reed (heddle)
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I did not know that you need to only use the slotted threads for pickup. That is so VERY important. Thank you.
@LongThreadMedia
Жыл бұрын
Agreed, it's such a helpful tip. Thanks for the note!
So when using the pickup stick behind the reed, do you start in DOWN position to set the threads in holes far out of the way to facilitate picking up ONLY the slotted threads?
@LongThreadMedia
Жыл бұрын
Correct. Anytime you are setting your pick-up stick you put your heddle in the down position and then pick up only slot threads. After all your threads are on the pick-up stick, return the heddle to neutral and push the stick to the back of the loom (as a holding spot), and you are ready to weave. I hope that helps answer your question.
It would have made more sence if you had shown us the wa to use the tips.
@LongThreadMedia
Жыл бұрын
As you noticed, this is a collection of tips for using the pick-up stick but not the full instruction for the use of this tool in your weaving. You can apply these principles to any pick-up stick draft or pattern, including the huck lace in the course this is excerpted from. For instruction on how to use the pick-up stick and to see these in action check out Sara's full course learn.longthreadmedia.com/courses/huck-lace-on-the-rigid-heddle-loom. Hope that helps!