Inkle weaving for absolute beginners: Laura Eccleston's loom detour
The crochet designer behind HappyBerry Crochet took no Friday upload this week, and a fifteen-day-old guide to warping and finishing a woven band kept her company.
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Inkle Weaving for Absolute Beginners - No Confusing Terminology! Start, Weave & Finish a Basic Band
HappyBerry Crochet is a crochet channel, and its busiest video right now has no hook in it. Laura Eccleston, the designer behind it with more than sixteen years of yarn work, has been trying a loom, and "Inkle Weaving for Absolute Beginners - No Confusing Terminology! Start, Weave & Finish a Basic Band" is what viewers keep coming back to.
The title's promise is the hook. The description walks through how the method works, how to load the loom with yarn (warping, in weavers' words) and how to tie off a finished band, all aimed at someone who has never sat at one. It has passed 10,000 views in its first fifteen days.
It is not her first step off the crochet path either. A ten-minute introduction to tablet weaving from midsummer, built on the Twisted Threads method and a website of free patterns, is still picking up viewers a little at a time. Behind both sits a reminder of the channel's usual business: a real armchair shrunk into a tiny crochet version for her dollhouse series, from the spring.
No new video went up over the seven days, which is unusual for a channel whose about page promises one every Friday, and still the views ran right at their normal pace, around a quarter of a million for the week. Among the craft and art channels closest to her in size, she sits fourth for views gained, while the animation channel The Koalas JJ and Create by K had much the biggest weeks.
The library did the work: years of yarn scrap projects and granny squares, and now a pair of weaving guides for anyone curious what else a ball of yarn can become.
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The videos drawing views on HappyBerry Crochet right now
- Channel
- HappyBerry Crochet
- Subscribers
- 1,060,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 260,855
- Videos published this week
- 0
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Tablet weaving, the other technique Laura introduced this summer, is also widely known by which name?
Tablet weaving uses a deck of square cards or tablets with holes to twist the warp threads, so it is commonly called card weaving.
