TreadlemossWeaving Studio · Wendham Mills
A wooden floor loom seen from the front, its pale warp threads running down to a half-woven cloth striped in gold and madder red, with a shuttle resting on the cloth and four foot treadles below

Floor-loom classes · Open loom time · Woven goods

Sit at a loom. Leave with cloth.

Six floor looms in a bright upstairs room on Carder's Row. Come for one Saturday, a four-week course or a few hours of quiet weaving.

Three ways in

Beginner classes

A First Weave Saturday for $95, or a four-week Thursday course for $220. Yarn included.

Open loom time

Three hours on a studio loom for $18, or ten sessions for $160, once you have taken a class.

Woven goods

Tea towels from $28, runners, scarves and throws, woven here and sold from the studio shelf.

See classes, loom time and prices

Your first class, in plain words

Four steps from bench to fringe

  1. Meet your loom

    Your loom is already threaded when you arrive. We point out the warp, the treadles, the beater and the shuttle, and you sit down on the bench.

  2. Step, pass, beat

    Press a treadle and the threads part. Pass the shuttle through the gap, then pull the beater toward you to pack the new row in. That is weaving.

  3. Find a rhythm

    By lunch most people stop counting. In the afternoon you change colors and try a simple pattern.

  4. Cut it off and take it home

    We cut your piece off the loom and show you how to tie the fringe. It goes home with you that day.

Warping a loom, in plain words

How the threads get there

  1. Measure the warp

    Wind yarn back and forth on a warping board until you have enough threads, all the same length.

  2. Thread the reed

    Pass each thread through a slot in the reed, the comb that keeps them evenly spaced.

  3. Thread the heddles

    Each thread goes through the eye of one heddle, in an order that decides the pattern.

  4. Wind on and tie up

    Roll the threads onto the back of the loom under even tension, tie them at the front, and the loom is ready to weave.

Six looms, six seats.

Tell us which Saturday or course suits you, and we will keep a loom threaded for you.

Ask for a seat at a loom