Hello! Loom makes weaving accessible in the digital age with pocket-sized projects Marianne Fairbanks and Erica Hess want to use an age-old art form to help you reconnect to the present.

CHARLESTON -- For Sadie Stowell, her school art project was a chance to learn about a couple of different skills, and she thinks both will benefit kids her age.

Once on the site, [Aslı Aydın Aksan]’s 4-shaft weaving loom immediately caught our eye. This is an open-source portable folding loom design. In weaving terms, shafts are sliding vertical frames.

She calls the project Healing with Weaving. Each loom take 20 minutes to make and the kits will include supplies to complete two weaving projects.

She says she was drawn to weaving at the massive wooden loom only because she liked the brightly colored yarns her teacher, Hussein, had skillfully strung out.

John Mullarkey, of St. Louis, Mo., is a card weaver and small-loom enthusiast who was informally nominated to bring back the pin loom while attending a weaving conference in 2007.

Ginny Rajala’s inspiration for her pandemic project was right in front of her. Or rather, right in front of her loom.