perplexingly:

books-to-the-sky:

perplexingly:

some time ago I drew Nienna, wanted to do some more so here’s Vairë!

Okay, this is super cool! I wish I could figure out what type of loom this is; a cursory googling hasn’t turned up anything yet.

So, I’m not going to lie, I know nothing about weaving and I’m ashamed to say I focused more on looking for clothing references rather than loom references. I wanted everything to fit within the picture, so these massive looms used for weaving were out of the question, I grabbed the first thing that fit, which, as it turns out, is used for making shoes! Well, Vaire has many talents.

For reference I used pictures from Susan Hardman’s flickr:

Unfortunately, I don’t know the name of the loom : (

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