Card corral

Peter Collingwood’s clever creation: a card corral to hold your tablet weaving cards while threading. Use it when you have a threaded-in design with multiple colors and precise threading and card order. A helpful “third hand,” or clip, holds a card upright for threading. Expert woodworker Don Betterley improves on Collingwood’s design by adding moveable corral posts to accommodate various card sizes: larger (3.25” to 3.5”) and smaller (2.5”). Corral comes with two clamps that can be secured from any two corners of the corral.

I use my card corral when I have wound a warp on my warping mill. I thread from my warp chain and then move the warp with threaded cards to Don Betterley’s Better Loom for tablet weaving. Thread on!

Handmade in Northern California

You can find an illustration of Peter Collingwood's card holder in his book, The Techniques of Tablet Weaving (2002, p. 47).