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Wonder Loom is a toy loom designed for children, used mainly as a way for them to create colourful bracelets and charms by weaving rubber bands together into Brunnian links. [ citation needed ] It was designed in 2013 by Choon's Designs LLC of Wixom, Michigan [ 1 ] and licensed to The Beadery Craft Products in Hope Valley, Rhode Island as the ...
A fishtail bracelet made from loom bands. Rainbow Loom was created by Cheong Choon Ng, a Malaysian immigrant of Chinese descent who came to the United States in 1991 to attend Wichita State University, where he earned a graduate degree in mechanical engineering. [1] [4] He was employed as a crash-test engineer for Nissan Motor Company in 2010 ...
Spool knitting, loom knitting, corking, French knitting, or tomboy knitting is a form of knitting that uses a spool with a number of nails or pegs around the rim to produce a tube or sheet of fabric. The spool knitting devices are called knitting spools, knitting nancys, knitting frame, knitting loom, or French knitters.
Inkle bands are quite strong and can be used in applications where a flat band is desired. Popular modern uses are guitar and camera straps, or, for particularly narrow bands, colorful shoelaces. [8] Traditionally, inkle bands also served as belts and reins. Weaving on a frame loom in Turkistan, 1865
Undated Ho-Chunk heddle for beadwork bands, Wisconsin, USA. Three different types of heddles: a wire, flat steel, and a repair heddle Inserted eye wire heddles Patent model of a mechanized loom with string heddles. A heddle or heald is an integral part of a loom.
The shed, the triangular aperture on the far right, shown from the back of a table loom Passing the shuttle through the shed The shed shown in tablet weaving. In weaving, the shed is the temporary separation between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
A slap bracelet (or snap bracelet) is a bracelet invented by Wisconsin teacher Stuart Anders in 1983, sold originally under the brand name of "Slap Wrap". Consisting of layered, flexible stainless steel bistable spring bands sealed within a fabric , silicone , or plastic cover, it can snap around a wrist when slapped on it with some force.
The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal weft (also called the woof) is drawn through (inserted over and under) the warp thread. [1] In the terminology of weaving, each warp thread is called a warp end (synonymous terms are fill yarn and filling yarn ); a pick is a single weft thread that ...