Overshot weaving drafts

Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

Overshot textiles have a distinctive construction made up of both a plain weave and pattern layer. Requiring two shuttles and at least four shafts, overshot textiles are built using two passes: one weaves a tabby layer and the other weaves the pattern layer, which overshoots or floats, above.

This particular ‘favorite things’ post may be viewed as a little self-serving; however, I’m solely motivated to get more weavers intrigued with overshot. In the current May/June …

Two shuttle-weaves like overshot create wonderful patterning. But you can turn any overshot weaving draft warp-wise and make it just a one-shuttle weave!

One warp!

While I continue to dress the loom, let me try to explain what I am doing........................... I have one small 4 shaft overshot motif that I am threading across the loom on either shafts 1-6 or 7-12. I have taken the tie-up area and will weave one Rose Fashion and the other Star Fashion. You will use tabby, but I have not shown it on these two drawdowns. (hence the 12 shafts you need). They will be woven with different weft colors. One pick will weave a pattern shaft from one of the…

Overshot and other pattern weaving have been a fascination to me over the years as there are so many possibilities for design and use. I've...

I’m so excited to be doing more complicated weaves. This is my first go at an overshot weave. The tie up allows for 8 different patterns. This is the first one in the book that I am trying. I…

Now that I am obsessed with overshot, I thought I'd share my latest endeavor; Maltese Cross. Here is the draft...... I warped 205 ends of 3/2 pearl cotton at 10 epi. I used the cotton for the tabby weft and Kauni yarn for pattern weft. I've got to work on a more even beat, but all in all, I'm really happy with it. Happy Weaving!