ok I've gone and bought rigid heddles

[abendgules]

 ...now I'm looking for instructions on using them.

Unfortunately, most of them involve buying a loom to fit the heddles in. Intawebs, you're letting me down? how can this be an unknown art, with fully half the web dedicated to fibre crafts (the half that is neither cats nor pr0n)?

Is the only method of using them with a loom? or is there some backstrap method? queneva ? henrytroup ? jahanara ? anyone?

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Backstrap weaving is your friend.

[alysdewiteby.livejournal.com]

I think you want to look into backstrap weaving. I've stayed clear of it till now, because I have to occasionally extract a hound from the bin or open the door, and I don't like being tied in to my work (I use a RH loom on a stand for that very reason), but that's the way to go for you, I think. That, or buy a loom.

The online guild of weavers, spinners and dyers recently did a workshop on backstrap weaving, I believe. Would you like me to see if I can get permission to pass the notes on to you?

Alys

Re: Backstrap weaving is your friend.

[bend-gules.livejournal.com]

Some guidance would be splendid, thank you.
I've found plenty of photos of S. American weavers, w/ and w/out rigid heddles, and assorted simple looms w/ RHs, but no how-to instructions for warping up a rigid heddle for backstrap, which I would have thought was a pretty basic process.
I'm wary of a loom because of prev. mentioned cluttery-fying the flat, and greater expense than my level of interest in weaving truly warrants. I'm a bit of a love-em-and-leave-em weaver, whereas most of the sites I've found are clearly for weaving junkies...