Visible Mending With The Speedweve - Exploring Slow Fashion With The Smallest Loom
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
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Today, we're diving into the wonderful world of vintage mending with the Speedweve loom. Whether you're a seasoned sewist or just starting out in your slow fashion journey, you're about to uncover a timeless technique that can breathe new life into your cherished garments.
MATERIALS USED
For this project, you will need:
- A Speedweve Mending Loom
- Yarn or Thread in the colour of your choice
- A pair of Scissors
- A Darning Needle
- The garment you wish to mend
ABOUT SPEEDWEVE MENDING LOOM
The Speedweve - Lancashire's smallest loom - is a cherished vintage tool that has been passed down through the generations for mending and embellishing fabrics. It's an incredible object produced in the 1940s and 50s but still very relevant today, and in this tutorial, I'll guide you through my learning process and share tips on how to make the most of it.
TIPS & TRICKS
- Don't hesitate to experiment with various colours and stitch patterns to add a unique touch to your mending.
- Appropriately size needles and thread make all the difference
- Getting the correct tension is key
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I hope you're all enjoying Skillshare! After the editing of this video, a friend of mine was able to help look through some newspaper archives and find a bit more information on the history of the Speedweve. If that's something you'd be interested in learning more about in a future video, let me know!
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- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
yes! I would love more info on the speedweve
Yes please
Yes, more info! And also, GO SPONSORSHIP!!! Congrats, Ash!!!
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After the amount of kids clothes and soft toys I’ve hand darned with nothing but a needle and thread, this looks like a godsend 😂
Two hints on woven fabric:
1) Before starting, draw a rectangle/square around the hole and use these lines to guide where you take the stitches to make an even edge.
2) When finishing, run the thread down/through the side stitch loops to tighten up the side 'selvages' and eliminate gaps to make a firmer fabric. You can also do this along the bottom (but it can be fiddly) and then up the other side.
You should also take into consideration your washing and drying procedures. If you wash the item in hot or warm water, be sure to wash it first and do the stitches a little loose to allow for them shrinking. Cold water items shouldn't be as much of a problem.
I have a similar one of these! It still uses the rubber band. I recommend a hair elastic, i tend to snap regular rubber bands. They are so fun to use and I mend my handknit socks with it. I love that you found both of the originals.
Ingenious device. My grandmother used a darning egg, I had no idea something like this existed. Thank you. Be well
I have several darning eggs that I have from my MIL and Mother’s old sewing boxes !!! I love earning my socks and find I t is some how her calming.
Not only is your video full of the personality I have come to expect from your work, but it is also the most easily digestible and informative tutorial for the speedweave that I have seen. I have a modern reproduction that I purchased a while ago, and now I must dig it out and use it. Thank you!
This looks fun! I was skeptical at first, but now I’m oddly tempted to acquire one
What a nifty doohickey! My Grandmother taught me darning socks and ellbows etc with a wooden mushroom.
This wiuld have delighted her to no end.
Thank You!
I bought one a year ago. Ive never been a weaver and could not work it out. I looked for a video but none did as thorough a job as you have. This made me so eager to go back and use it again. Thank you
🙂My Nanna used to fix our knitwear in a very similar way to this, but with just one loop hook and a needle.
I got one for Christmas, I haven't had an occasion to use it yet but I want to keep the clothes I love and visible mending is so cool
I have had one of these on a wish list since before the pandemic. I have been afraid to buy it because there were no instructions. THIS video has allowed me to see what I can do with it. I, too, know how to darn, but who the heck wants to do that? Gads. You've helped me tremedously . . . again. Thank you!
The speadweave looks like a great tool. I also find darning with just a needle and thread to be fiddly and I'm pretty much never happy with the result. Great video!
Oh my gosh this is so neat!! The difference between the first and last patches on the test fabric really show how much you managed no nail the technique.
I would love to see more about the speedweave. I don't weave myself but I like to learn about little things from the past.🤯🤔
I've got a modern one I've mostly used to darn nitting. I find that if the item is worn I have to go easy there to otherwise the tension breaks the threads I've anchored the weave in.
That’s look fun and would definitely help make repairs less oddly shaped! A great thing for the Christmas list!
Congratulations on your sponsor!
Best episode ever!!! My gears are turning!
Excellent timing, I just completed mending my first pair of jeans, including darning a whole in the thigh. I've been heavily considering trying to find something like these after seeing some short videos but wasn't sure how well it would work on wovens as most examples I saw were being used on knits. I'm working on (very) slowly replacing my clothes as they wear out with mostly handmade ones.
I love my speedweave it's a funny thing that I have used for sock darning, and linen darning when I have a hole.
Having just recently mended a skirt with just a needle and thread, I need this.
That is a great little gadget, I almost never darn as it so fiddly. Nice to see that the weather in your neck of the woods is just as inclement as it is in my neck of the woods, and it does not look like improving. so a bit more info on the speedweave would be great.
Ah I’ve seen these in short form also and always thought I needed another textile-y apparatus like I need… well, another textile-y apparatus, but I must say this is a delightful little device. Also woot woot for visible mending!
Congrats on the sponsorship!
have been wanting to try one of these... LOVE tablet weaving!
My grandmother had one of these, which I don't think she ever used: I've just broken the seal on the box. It's a different manufacturer: Sellar's Rapid Darner, size 2/11. I've accidentally dropped the perished elastic band into my mending pile; I'll follow one of the other commenters and try a hair elastic!
I've been eyeing a speed-weaver since lockdown. Allot of them on ebay, when last I looked, seemed to be from communist Russia. Which just brings up images in my Cold War era mind of people gathered around a rickety table, downing vodka and darning their socks, waiting for the soup to be ready.
I never realized they were sized small and large - regular and silk/linen, how elegant. Thank you so much for the information.
When I'm doing research into a thing I find switching to 'image search' can bring up old advertisements.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Hey Cathy. They look really neat don’t they? I think I want one as well!
Hope you and yours are doing well!
@@robintheparttimesewer6798The speed-looms are so cool. Kind of wish I had bought myself one during lockdown. For the time being there's only the modern replicas from China up for sale on the ebays. When did I turn into a vintage snob?
@@stevezytveld6585 lol Cathy I think we’re all wondering about that! I’m becoming a fabric and vintage snob! Mine you I also keep dating myself talking about things like the Eatons and Sears catalog. The Christmas wish book! The world is turning too fast!
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 The world is busy being a little whirlwind right now. Give me tools that work and were built to last. I miss the Christmas wish book...
The fabric snob part is inevitable after the first time you work with a decent wool... lol.
Ooh, might have to put one of these on my Christmas list
speedweave lookos soooo satisfying to use, WOW so cool
That's so cool! I'm saving this video to my How-To Playlist, so I can rewatch it. One of these days, I need to get me one of those little gizmos!
I’d been considering buying a darning loom before but this inspired me to get one.
Like you, I *can* darn by hand but this looks much easier. I found a new one that comes with thread etcetera.
So fantastic video, I love to fix up favorite clothing to keep them going, this product is wonderful. Modern equivalent is ordered. Thank you!
Very cool! Thank you for sharing. I'm going to look for one.❤
That is very clever gadget! The disposable plastic type clothing that started in the 60s and continues today, is the cause of its death. Perhaps I'll find one to add to my srwing collection. Thank you 😊
I have literally just ordered mine!
That was loads of fun to watch and learn!🎉❤
i've been interested in acquiring one of these ! so nice to see how they work in practice, this seems like a really handy tool.
this is SO COOL
Another rigid heddle and tablet weaver here *waves from the north of yorkshire*
Great video. I keep seeing these little gadgets and was wondering how they worked. Might have to invest in one now. You made it easy to understand how it worked and what to watch out for. Thank you.
A comment for the RUclips gods
I've been wondering how these things work.
Would that have been used to mend a hole in a man's jacket or coat?
I bought a super cheap, poor quality speed weave, but its sharp metal edges caused injury and snapped the rubber bands. Should have just spent the money to get a good quality one.
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I bought a modern copy of a Speedweve and I have to say that I hated it. I found it fiddly, the end result messy and far too large for small holes. On the plus side I did perfect my darning, using chain stitch and am very happy with it.