Buy Harrisville Designs Style A EasyweaverHarrisville Designs Style A Easyweaver Product Description:
- Made of finished wood and are made to last
- Even someone who has never woven before will find this process easy and enjoyable.
- Produce a surprising variety of woven pieces
- Sew the strips together and make pillow covers, blankets, clothing and more!
- Easy weavers are pre-threaded with the yarn on them as shown.
Product Description
Children love to weave! The Harrisville Designs Easy Weaver is a rigid heddle table loom that offers a great way for children and adults alike to discover the basic techniques of real tapestry weaving and to produce a beautiful woven tapestry that they can be proud of. Weaving is a quiet activity that encourages concentration and gives them a sense of accomplishment as they create their own designs. Weaving also helps children understand spatial relationships while developing fine motor control and building self confidence.
This kit includes everything needed to create a surprising variety of woven pieces such as a scarf, table runner, doll blanket or placemats! Included are a 17 1/2" long x 10" wide by 5 1/2" tall loom, enough rainbow colored 100% wool yarn to weave 2 1/2 yards of fabric approximately 6" wide, 2 8" wooden stick shuttles, and complete illustrated instructions. Made in the USA.
We developed the first of our Friendly Loom Products in the 1980's in response to growing demand from educators and parents wanting to introduce 'hands on' creative activities to children and teenagers. Our products are designed to provide fun, challenging, educational experiences while developing concentration, fine and gross motor control and a better understanding of spatial relationships and patterning. We believe that it is essential to help children slow things down and experience their creative ability by introducing the the joys of working with their hands.
As educators and parents, one of our most important challenges is to encourage the development of self-esteem and self-confidence. For a child to be able to say "I made this myself", the pride in achievement is not only felt in that child's mind and heart, it is represented in a tangible form.
We hope that you will find Harrisville Designs Products useful tools for helping children discover the excitement of the creativity that is within them.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Needs better instructions
By retrostar76
I'm an adult, and I got this for myself because I wanted a relatively inexpensive loom to fiddle with, to see if I could actually make something useful from this "toy". I figured since this was a toy, it would be easier. Well, having tinkered with the thing for about ten minutes now, my initial impression is that there is no way a 7 year old could figure out how to work this thing by themselves. The directions are perplexing to say the least. There are two booklets; one of them is supposed to be a quick start guide and the other a book of projects. For the rainbow scarf, I found you have to refer back and forth (at least to start) to both booklets. It felt like someone showing you what a bike was, the pieces of it, and then you were expected to just get on and peddle yourself off into the sunset. Not so much.I feel like this loom COULD be easy to use, and that they PROBABLY did do all the hard work already getting it so it's ready to go when you receive it, but the instructions and illustrations are so confusing that I'm just not so sure anymore. I was more certain of its ease before the directions than after, and I think that says something. For example, the extra shuttle that's in the loom, is that supposed to be there? Do I need to take it out? They don't mention this in the booklets. The section on re-threading is so unintuitive that I've decided to read it again tomorrow when I've had some coffee and a night's rest. I mean, this really shouldn't be rocket science.Overall, I've given this thing 4 stars because I think it WILL be easy to use once I figure out how to do it (on the Internet, not through the materials they've provided), and because it seems to be built sturdy (sturdily?). I'm sure I will get hours of enjoyment out of it and hopefully a completed, usable product; however, all this is wishful thinking in light of the fact that for now I simply cannot figure out if I'm even using this "toy" correctly at all.By the way, this is the Easy Weaver A, not B. The booklets refer to both, and the box does not seem to mention the model.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Easy enough for my 7 year old
By Angelica
I have had a great experience with this product. It arrived prethreaded and in nice packaging. My seven year old was able to create a placemat without trouble. One piece did need come unglued, but a quick call to the company confirmed that I could try to re-glue it at home or send it back for a replacement. I opted to glue it myself because my daughter didn't want to wait. The piece hasn't come unglued again and we have now owned this loom for over a year.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
HARRISVILLE LOOM .... IS NOT THE BEST LOOM DEAL
By trgo
I had intended to purchase this Harrisville Easyweaver, but after consulting with two very experienced weavers, was advised that there is a MUCH better quality, and very easy to use loom, available for a similar cost (actually slightly less).The loom that both experienced weavers recommended, is called the "Little Quick Weaver", and is a mom and pop product made in Michigan.The craftsmanship, and finish of the "Little Quick Weaver" is superb!I am very glad that I solicited the advice of two weaving experts, prior to actually making a loom purchase.If you type "Little Quick Weaver" into a search engine, or go to Ebay, you will find the "Little Quick Weaver" listed for sale there.UPDATE: Nov. 19th, 2012: I can no longer find the "Little Quick Weaver" listed for sale ... anywhere. I would like to buy another one. If anyone can find it please advise me.
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