Viking weave

Something I wish to share with you all is a small and simple rigid heddle that I recently made. It is extremely portable and easy to use, especially when you wish to weave a band of just one or two metres. This sturdy little heddle has been carved from a slice of boxwood and given a couple of coats of hemp seed oil. I have to thank sculptor and good friend Ben for sending me several slices of this wood, which is really easy to work with, but has a fine grain and nice strength. Ben works with…

When I purchased the wire for my first Viking Knit project and the Viking Knit class I had thought of using some wire I had picked up long before. This was the coloured copper wire I had avoided pu…

Viking Braids - Make a Trollen Wheel: A Trollen Wheel is a tool for making patterned cords or ropes which dates back centuries. There is some debate about whether Vikings actually used these or not, but it is a popular craft for children at medieval fairs and Viking-age reenactments non…

Viking Textiles - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The York housewife in the Viking Age was highly skilled in cloth making and could spin yarn, weave cloth, and sew garments using simple tools. She would spin raw wool or flax into yarn using a distaff and spindle, then weave cloth on a basic warp-weighted loom that could be folded and stored. Finished cloth could be dyed or bleached using natural dyes before being made into clothing.

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I recently spent time trying to puzzle out the Viking Knit. There some excellent directions on the Internet including these on the Fine Art by Rocio website. The problem is, the Viking Knit that …

One of the things I wanted to try when I first was learning the Viking Knit (Trichinopoly) technique was adding beads to the ‘weave’ – rather than capturing the beads within the t…

To start Viking Knit the conventional way, one generally fashions a Five or Six-leafed petal out of wire secures it to the top of a dowel, and then starts the weave from there. I decided to …

Ok, so this is kind of cool. I've been exploring the various things you can do with Viking wire weaving recently, and my wire mentor Letitia told me how to integrate beads into the weave. Basically, you string a bead when you're about to make a stitch. When you put the rough weave through the draw plate, those beads are smushed to the inside, and end up encased in the finished weave. This I had to try! So, for this practice piece I picked up some cheap 'beading wire' from Walmart this…