Pick up band weaving

Narrow patterns are fun to weave. In the last post, I provided 24 charts for five pattern ends in Baltic-style pick-up. In this post, I’ll show you three examples of how narrow patterns might…

What's as easy as plain weave but makes intriguing patterns? An inkle weaving technique known as turned krokbragd.

This wide band features a pick-up warp float pattern inspired by Norwegian designs, and the possibilities for its use extend beyond guitar strap.

Each month I'm presenting a new tutorial on a medieval skill from various types of textile-related crafts. The purpose is two-fold. First, it will allow me to locate, study, and try a variety of new techniques I might otherwise overlook, and second, it's an easy way to get information out there about skills that other people might be looking for or find helpful. This month, I present Baltic-Style pick-up Inkle Loom Weaving. First, I have to advance apologize for how much text leads up to the…

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Quarantine collection! Guitar straps in Baltic pickup woven between March 16 and April 8. Patterns are from Foulkes, Dixon, Hergenhan, Bläse, and MacHale. Please click on the photo to enlarge it! I was really looking forward to a series of workshops that I was scheduled to teach in California early this year and had fun preparing for them. Before the Corona Virus Pandemic hit and shut down our social interaction, I happily got to complete the first two workshops in San Diego and Exeter. We…

With the Baltic Style Pick Up Technique you will be able to do complex and impressive patterns. This technique is known under different names depending on where ancient bands have been found. You will find sources, that state, it is Baltic Pick Up, when the pattern threads are twice as thick as the background patterns and most of the background shows the so called basket weave. Others say, it is called speckled background, when you see a lot of the "spots" in the background. There are even…

Using a Sunna double slotted heddle with 13 pattern threads. This is the heddle that I use most frequently. Bands with 11 or 13 pattern threads can be woven comfortably. Sunna heddle, Gehpa shuttle, band lock and G-clamp Here is a heart motif. The thirteen pattern threads are red. The pattern and background threads are 6/2 cotton. The red pattern threads are doubled. There are 12 picks for the pattern repeat. The pattern chart shows only the coloured pattern threads when they appear on the…

Get started weaving with small rigid heddles! Spin Off editor Kate Larson will show you how to warp and weave a handspun band in this tutorial. You’ll be weaving sweet bands, ribbons, and ties in no time.

If I want to try out a band pattern or just weave something quickly I usually set up the warp and thread it onto my heddle at the same time. This isn’t the most meticulous way to set up a small weave, but I find it to be the fastest and for small weaves woven on my kind of heddles I find it to work

I'm excited to announce that my second book will be available on August 28, 2024! It can be pre-ordered from Schiffer Publishing and various booksellers, and you can also ask your favorite weaving shop or bookstore to order it for you. Read the description below or click here to visit the book's page at Schiffer…

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Explore Baltic pick-up, from setting up your inkle loom to weaving bands efficiently to getting tidy selvedges.

Pickup pattern modificator – Raktres.net