TO WEAVE IS A PLEASURE

All people of any age or condition can exercise the art of weaving. To weave has many benefits as it has a relaxing effect, exercises the imagination, increases our creativity, promotes fine motor skills and helps minimize the effects of osteoarthritis and also reduces anxiety and depression. Weaving, perseverance, creativity, and concentration develops, among other skills. Knit exercise both hemispheres of the brain. Repetitive movements to be made, they strengthen coordination. This activity allows to pause in our lifestyle, which in addition to reducing stress, and therefore facilitate we order our thoughts, encourages effort, patience and discipline to complete something started by ourselves.

The children when are very young can weave with fingers using a simple wooden loom like we have in Coscoja Workshop. It also comes equipped with a shuttle needle for those who are already older and have practice and with a pack of colored wool.

The technique for making a loom is quite simple. Begin by placing the warp with a thick cotton yarn or the like, alternately passing through slots in the wood vertically.

Then you need to cut a strand of yarn long enough to fit the number of spins you want to perform. It can be done with fingers or tying directly into the side of the shuttle needle having a hole. The other end of the wool is attached, at the start, in the first line of the warp. Starting with this rope, the shuttle needle is introduced (or wool with your fingers) alternately passing a rope above and below the next string up to the last rope. Pulling to pass the wool. The same operation is repeated in the opposite direction,  the rope that was taken above it will now taken below and vice versa..

Do not pull too much from the wool because the loom will not stay with straight sides.

To make another loom is placed back a warp with a thick cotton yarn or the like, by passing alternately through the slots of the timber.

We can use different thicknesses of wool to suit the abilities of children.

If the child is very young or little laborious, we will give a very thick wool to fast forward. For the more highly skilled or older children or we can give them more fine wool.

The first steps should not be complicated, a loom made ​​with stripes of different colors can be very nice and helps them to easily learn the art of weaving. The finished work can serve as a rug or blanket for dolls. Also sewing it to a fabric, to reinforce the fabric, you can make a small bag.

The Crafts in Waldorf pedagogy are incorporated regularly in the first grade but throughout the kindergarten have been experienced from the care you have been putting planters in their daily actions. Gradually the child will need a little time to a higher concentration, the 5 year old still living routines expansion-concentration garden but is preparing to make the move to primary. So, there are times when wool cords are being created by nimble fingers and those awake. It also comes as an activity for the whole year frame loom, spinning warp to the teacher prepares to leave will incorporate a more mature the child learns to conquer.