Weft Face Weave

A little over a year ago I aquired my first loom. It is a very well loved two harness table loom. When I got it, it already had some warp left on it that I finished up into a table runner using some yarn that I had on hand. Almost imediately I wanted to do something more than a tabby weave.

I started exploring the idea of a weft faced weave and this is what I have been working on. My ultimate goal is that this will become a shoulder bag and I will probably do the strap on my inkle loom. I also am planning on putting some torchon bobbin lace on it as well for some different texture. Who knows how it will end up but I am having a good time working with some new techniques and mixing the media up.

Learning to Weave

After my recent addition of a floor loom I had to accept the fact that I have been putting off educating myself in the finer details of weaving. Like all crafts your learning is life long. However, there is a point where you step off the cliff and start to immerse yourself in the subject at hand. Since I am a book addict I started to sort through my weaving acquisitions and chose "Step-By-Step Weaving" by Nell Znamierowski as my place to start. It was only about 92 pages long so I could break it down to a small bit every day and still finish it in under 2 weeks. It was published in 1967 so it truly has that 60's hippy flavor to weaving. Getting a chance to read it actually gave me some of our more mainstream types of crafts a starting place. For instance the Rya Rug is the forerunner to the hooked rug that so many of us bought kits for back in the 70's. It is nice to know how to build one from scratch.

I already had a hand loom warped up so since I started reading this book I have started to putter a bit more on this loom. The book actually tells you how to make an easy hand loom that is able to complete all but the last few projects that it lists. I had a good time with this and can't wait to start exploring making my first Rya Rug.