Weft faced weaving pattern

In 2017 I collaborated with Brintons Carpets to create an Axminster Stair carpet for Wool Fusion; the project by Campaign for Wool for Wool Week. If you prefer to watch rather than read, there’s a video about this collaboration here, from the fab team at Cube Video. The stair carpet was commissioned for Wool Fusion, […]

This rug is weft-faced. Many but not all rugs are. In this case the weft entirely covers the warp. Here the same warp and weft yarns from the previous post are woven weft-face. Notice that the warp…

I still don't get it! Here is a picture of page 237 of The Handweaver's Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon. It's a weft-faced pattern and as y...

For today’s post we travel to the other side of the globe: Scandinavia! To discover another of my favourite weaving structures: Krokbragd! Little history before going “in medias res”: While Saoriweaving was my favourite technique to weave on a rigged heddle loom in the beginning of my “weaving career”, the reason I start learning to…

We all like clean and tidy selvedges but they can seem elusive with some structures. Here's Tom Knisely describing his techniques for weaving boundweave with good looking selvedges.

About fourteen years ago, I took a weekend rug weaving class from Jason Collingwood.I kept my woven sample and class notes, but never made a rug. I would like to show in this post some of the things I learned and had to relearn from this class. There are techniques I could have done better and others that made me happy that I still remembered. I used a wool area rug in my living room for inspiration. The dark green, navy, dark red and natural colors go well together. One of the first things…

Of the many interesting stops on the Vesterheim 2017 Textile Tour, none had a particular focus on krokbragd, a popular type of Norwegian weave structure. Yet… they keep showing up. The lates…

Posts about Rugs written by Dawn McCarthy

School of SweetGeorgia on Instagram: "NOW AVAILABLE // Join in learning about the beautiful colourful motifs of the Norwegian weft-faced weaving technique called Krokbragd! Taught by Debby Greenlaw @flora_fiber, Krokbragd has the look of a complicated weaving technique, but is so achievable once you understand its structure and characteristics. And this is exactly what you will learn in the new Weaving Krokbragd course!⁠ ⁠ Visit the Weaving Krokbragd course page (link in bio) and join Debby…