Connect with the past and design for the future using this versatile structure. Using one warp, students will begin with traditional pattern treadling and advance to more varied structures, including honeycomb and boundweave. Learn how to keep track of pattern treadling without a draft, how to use color to create depth, and how to adapt overshot designs for your own use.
Experience Level
Beginner
Maximum Class Size
16
Materials Fee
$5 covers handouts and extra yarn
Student Supplies
A 4-shaft loom with a 12-inch weaving width, warped before class as described below.
YARNS
• White or natural 10/2 cotton—242 ends, 3 yds. long for a total of 738 yards (3 ounces). This is your warp and you’ll already have warped up the loom with it. I will provide the threading pattern. The warp will be set at 20 ends per inch and will be 12 inches in the reed. Students should come with 1 inch of tabby already woven as a header.
• The same yarn as the warp for tabby weft, about 700 yards (3 ounces).
• Contrasting color 3/2 or 5/2 cotton for pattern weft, about 300 yards (4 ounces).
• Two contrasting colors of 8/2 cotton (1-2 ounces of each).
• Four other fat yarns, Harrisville Highland wool or Lily Sugar ‘n Cream work well and cheap acrylic knitting yarn is fine (1-2 ounces of each). Ideally the yarns are varying values of the same hue, for example: dark red, medium red, pink, white; or dark purple, medium purple, light purple, white.
• Other colors of 10/2, 8/2, 5/2 and 3/2 cotton to play with. Bring what you have.
OTHER SUPPLIES
• 4 shuttles and multiple bobbins. Two of these shuttles can be stick shuttles.
• Scissors.
• Tape measure.
• Note taking supplies.
• Bobbin winder.
Homework
Students will need to warp their looms and weave 1″ of plain weave before class.
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Instructor
Laurie Duxbury
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