Looping

 
I've posted a 6-minute video showing how to make the basic looping stitch on You Tube.

There's also Facebook page for the New Age Looping Study Group. I hope you'll join in!

Looping is a contemporary interpretation of a technique older than weaving or knitting. Looping creates a structure so stable it can't unravel, so logical you don't need to follow a pattern. Once you learn the basics, it's relaxing work even when you expect frequent distractions.

Below are a few links to information about looping from my web site, my podcasts and this blog. Further down the page, I'll try to add other links from time to time, too. If you happen to run across a broken link, I'd appreciate a heads up via email. I've added an abbreviated bibliography at the bottom.




projects from New Age Looping by Donna Kallner
About my book, New Age Looping


This practical handbook contains 116 pages packed with illustrations and spiral bound so it lies flat. In-depth instructions help you master tension control and shaping so you can create bags, garments, vessels and more. Instructions emphasize ways to adapt a basic idea to suit your own style and materials, and you learn to design looping projects of your own. Older than weaving, knitting and crochet, looping creates a fabric so stable it cannot unravel and you never have to count stitches. That makes it ideal handwork for travel and times when you have frequent distractions.
Projects from New Age Looping by Donna Kallner
You can purchase New Age Looping from one of the beloved online or brick-and-mortar retailers or in my shop at Etsy.   Looping Links from Donna Kallner
    Links From Out And About
    Bibliography
    • New Age Looping: A Handbook for Fiber Artists by Donna Kallner (that's me)
    • Down East Netting: A History and How-To of Netmaking by Barbara M. Morton. Answered sooo many questions for me.
    • Needle Lace; Techniques & Inspirations by Jill Nordfors Clark. While this mostly uses looping as a surface embellishment in two-dimensional work, it shows many stitch variations and was a great source of inspiration to me.
    • Aboriginal String Bags by Alan J. West. Get this for a fascinating look into living tradition.
    • Whadoo Tehmi: Long-Ago People’s Packsack; Dene Babiche Bags: Tradition and Revival by Suzan Marie & Judy Thompson. Reviving a tradition.
    • Armenian Needlelace and Embroidery by Alice Odian Kasparian. Fascinating history. Read her story.
    • In Celebration of the Curious Mind by Nora Rogers & Martha Stanley, editors. The Turkish counterpart to the story.
    • African Fabric Crafts: Sources of African Design & Technique by Esther Warner Dendel. Don't miss the African dance shirt story.
    • The Maker’s Hand: A Close Look at Textile Structures by Peter Collingwood. One of my favorite sources of inspiration.
    • Primitive Scandinavian Textiles in Knotless Netting by Odd Nordland. Jump into the way-back machine.
    • Earth Basketry by Osma Gallinger Tod. Cycloid weaving.
    • The Techniques of Basketry by Virginia Harvey. 
    •  Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills by David Westcott
    • The Art of Netting edited by Jules & Kaethe Kliot
    • The Crochet Workbook by Sylvia Cosh & James Walters and Freeform Crochet and beyond by Renate Kirkpatrick. While these are crochet books, they will inspire anyone with an interest in freeform looping.
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