Always wanted to join us for a Basics class? Wish you could relive the experience from home anytime? We are thrilled that Vävstuga Basics is now available as a video class! You can sign up here at Vimeo for a monthly or annual subscription. This Forum is where you can post your questions and meet fellow students.

Your subscription includes:

• Vävstuga Basics class = 20 hours of video content + many handouts and extras
• Dress Your Loom the Swedish Way DVD content
• Dress Your Swedish Drawloom DVD content
• Access to this member Forum
• Access to further classes as we add them

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Vävstuga Basics contents:

• Introduction
• Project #1: Tablecloths
• Project #2: Towels
• Project #3: Blankets
• Project #4: Block damask
• Finishing
• Extras -- handouts, detailed tables of contents and indexes

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Indexes and Tables of Contents galore!

Marjorie Clay has created a wonderfully detailed set of reference materials. Find these in the playlists of "Extras." Each numbered chapter of our Basics video class has a corresponding Table of Contents document, noting the timestamp for each topic. There's also a set of useful indexes that covers the entire course—including an index of the books and equipment in the Vävstuga Store that are mentioned in the videos, and a compilation of the Weaving Pearls presented throughout.

I think I heard Becky mention a "Basics kit" in the first part of the tablecloth video. Is this something you are planning to have available?

We do plan to have the "KIT" available in the store soon.
Stay tuned to our newsletter and we will let everyone know when it is ready for sale.
We've been busy with classes and getting the video live, The KIT will be next.
Thanks for your patience.
Becky

Thank you, Becky. I will look for the kit. I am enjoying your class very much and have learned quite a bit. Your teaching is very clear and the video is clear. You seem to anticipate my questions with your detailed comments. Thank you.
Deborah

I was wondering the same thing about the kits. Because this is all so new I wondered if all these goodies were in the works. These videos are great, thank you Becky.

Aah, that`s what I was hoping for such a long time: a Vävstuga Video class. Thanks so much for doing it, Becky.
I bought a little Lilla last year and I am so happy with it. Your Videos and the Lilla are an absolute dream team! Nice and clearly explained I learned such a lot. Winding and setting up are so much easier now. And the projekts are stunning. They make me want to weave all day long.
I`m looking forward for more classes to come.

I also like the index. It makes it easier to find the topics.

But one question I really do have: How do you weave your beautiful clothes. What Materials do you use and which patterns?

Hi Carmen,

Great to hear from you!
My clothes are made from a variety of materials, ranging from 8/2 cotton, 16/2 cotton, even finer cottons, 22/2 cottolin and even some cotton flake leftover from my past production days in the 80s and 90s. I also have clothing in our 20/2 Mora wool, and various linens.

This coming newsletter will feature a new fabric as a Warp-to-Go, hopefully to be followed by other fabrics in the near future.

Thanks so much for joining us,
Becky

This is just wonderful, just like sitting in the barn with you! My mom (Mary) and I successfully set up her loom with 16/3 linen guided by flippy over the last couple of days and are now troubleshooting tensioning issues.

The one thing I wasn't easily able to find was a materials list for each project. I'm particularly interested in the tablecloth as a first project on my loom and wasn't sure what weight of cotton you used? I'm sure it's mentioned in the video at some point, but wasn't sure if it was elsewhere. Thanks!

Becky, I am just delighted to be able to continue learning Basics after our in-person class. As Sarah said above, my new-to-me Standard is set up and ready to go....with some tension problems I'm confident I'll be able to solve soon, thanks to your guidance. Thanks again for a wonderful Basics week and allowing us to continue that experience in this online forum. (I hope band loom videos will follow soon...just a little suggestion!)

I am so loving doing this class with the videos….I have been weaving for sometime but am learning lots of new things ! Please please offer more this way….I am particularly interested in your drawloom class as I have just started with a drawloom….I hope you can offer that in a video class too!….thanks so much for making this accessible via video!

Me, too! Even after weaving for some years, watching the classes I'm either saying, "oh, that's how to..." or "what a great idea" or "you mean I'm not the only one?!"
I'm in for any other classes you offer, but I've got a drawloom, too...

And likewise — Im learning so very much, and I’m taking my time through this class but would love anticipating the chance to continue onward. And yes, I do have a drawloom as well, though I’ve never actually used it (it came with the loom and I’ve been procrastinating as I’ve no clue where to begin with it…)

Thank you so much for these sessions!

You are welcome Christene,

See my Drawloom video at:
https://vimeo.vavstuga.com/products/

Sound good Christene,

Best of luck with it all - you can do it!
B

I was unaware of this class until it was featured in an email from handwoven. I signed up immediately as taking a Vavstuga class has been on my bucket list for the last three years since I began weaving. I wondered if I would learn anything new and my goodness, I am learning a lot! I am only on the. Second lesson at this point but I am eager to complete all of them and take more.
Thank you so much for putting this school on line, Ms. Ashenden.

I would also like to compliment you on your clothes! I love the dresses ypu wear and the skirts you show us. What pattern do you use? I have woven my first yardage and will be taking a class learning to sew with handwoven in March. So I am attempting to. Find patterns that will be compatible.