Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving Paperback – December 1, 1987

This is the most recommended book for rigid heddle weaving and with good reason. The directions are clear and the depth and variety of information is outstanding. I come back to this book over and over as I up my skills and want to progress.It walks you right seat through a table runner or pillow project, clearly explaining every step as you go and not just a simple, bland project but a patterned piece that is beautiful yet beginner friendly. It even covers tricks for fixing errors.It covers a host of interesting, easy patterns such as log cabin, open weave, and float patterns with a pick up stick.The projects are varied from tote bags and purses to vests and tops. There is an afghan with panels you sew together. There is even a pattern to weave a carry bag for your foldable loom.If I could only have one weaving book, I’d choose this one.

This book is well written and easy to follow. I have skimmed through it and I can see where an excellent reference book. It covers a lot of the major concepts that a beginning or Intermediate weaver needs to know. I should’ve had this book in my weaving library from the beginning. I’ve bought all of the beginning to intermediate books on weaving, and I consider this one of the best. Oh well, better late than never.

Very informational book, clear instructions and illustrations. I used my first copy so many times it fell apart.

I got this book alone with Jane Patrick's book right after getting my rigid heddle loom as I wanted to teach myself to use it. While the book sounds like it's a simple guide to rigid heddle weaving, I found Jane Patrick's book on Creative Cloth on the Rigid Heddle Loom to be more clear and succinct for a new weaver. This book has a lot of good information, nice background reading, more explanation on looms, structure, color theory, and things like that, but the patterns are more complicated to weave, and frankly are really out dated. I did not find any of them to be inviting to actually do the project as they all looked like they were from the 60s.The book is a good resource, however, if you want to read more on looms and drafting basics and other reference information on rigid heddle weaving. If you want to teach yourself to weave and have a clearer guide to weaving, I'd recommend the Jane Patrick book instead.

i'm a weaving newbie and have taught myself off of on-line courses, videos, and books like this. i have two or three i go to when i have questions or need to review things and this is one of them (the other is The Weaver's Idea Book by Jane Patrick). the drawings are so accurate and helpful--its brief without scrimping on important info, its clear, its concise. its also a bit dated as far as the look goes, but as with most books/demos i just need to know how to do certain techniques and then do them to my taste :) i think i've gone to it multiple times with every weaving project i've done. this is an excellent resource and invaluable to someone like me--who doesn't have an actual person to ask questions. highly recommended.

I bought a rigid heddle loom and the beginner book the owner suggested. Granted I was able to have sucess with my first project but felt there was much more to weaving. I bought this book and learned so much about weaving in general as well as things specific to the rigid heddle. I wish I had purchased this book to learn from as it goes beyond the first few projects and into various ways to manipulate the weaving to create different effects and it had a lot more projects than my original beginner book. While I probably will never go beyond the rigid heddle, I now have a much better understanding of weaving in general and since I have no desire to make yards and yards of fabric, I will probably continue to explore and enjoy my little loom.

Great reference guide for this kind of loom with great visuals and information. All you will need is this and the great videos from Ashford on simple warping. Good section on choice of fibers and yarns.

I purchased this book along with an Ashford 32" rigid heddle table loom. While the loom stated it came with a weaving book, that book turned out to be little more than a pamphlet about the very extreme basics. Ms. Davenport's book does a great job of explaining a lot of the things I would have asked why about, had she not been a step ahead of me already. I'm looking forward to working through a lot of the ideas and projects she presents and ultimately designing a few of my own.