Once on the site, [Aslı Aydın Aksan]’s 4-shaft weaving loom immediately caught our eye. This is an open-source portable folding loom design. In weaving terms, shafts are sliding vertical frames.

One such creator, [Fraens], has recently designed a unique 3D-printed table loom with eight shafts, offering a simpler yet innovative approach to weaving. This project is a fresh take on ...

Guertin said weaving is in her blood. “When I was 9, my grandmother gave me a 4-shaft table loom and told me that my great-grandmother in Sweden was a weaver, and she said I was to be a weaver.

And people seemed to enjoy it.” Enough so, that when The Weaving Lab ended in 2017, people began to ask where they could get the miniature laser-cut looms. In 2019, Fairbanks and Hess launched ...

Much less intimidating are table looms, which are also much smaller—many are even portable—and affordable. Despite their size, these wooden weaving machines can churn out all kinds of projects ...