Baltic pickup patterns

I thought I had a global view of the culture and practice of weaving. Then a discovery revealed my unwitting Eurocentrism.

Pickup pattern modificator – Raktres.net

Weaving a Sámi band with 11 pattern threads. Sámi shoe band. I saw this beautiful band in Oulu in the Northern Ostrobothnia Museum. It is a Sámi shoe band. There are three motifs and the pattern repeat is: A,B,A,C, Warp and weft details Warp: red, blue and yellow wool Background: yellow wool Weft: yellow wool which makes a speckled selvedge. Warp plan for border There are 10 border threads on each side. The warp plan gives the warp order to the centre. Reverse the sequence for the complete…

♥ ♥ Greetings fellow fibre junkies! ♥ ♥ First I thought I'd play around with supplemental weft. In the following two bands I have two wefts (horizontal) threads on separate shuttles: one finer and one that has 3 or more threads. I open the shed normally and throw through the fine weft, the, holding the same shed open drop selected warp threads, and shoot the thicker weft through. This allows that weft to pop up to the surface and create a pattern I couldn't make with a basic threading alone…

Bandweaving – Jumaka

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This is a PDF-file with Slavic Patterns for Inkle Weaving in Baltic Pick-up style. It contains 30 ethnic schemes from simplest ornaments for 7 pattern threads to more complete patterns for 19 pattern threads and one pattern for 21 threads. IMPORTANT! This file DOES NOT TEACH HOW TO WEAVE! It only

So far, one type of pickup stands out as my favorite way to create fancy patterns. It is most commonly know these days as "Baltic-Style" pickup. I learned it back in the 1970's from Helene Bress' book, Inkle Weaving. She refers to it as "Basketweave Background". Evelyn Neher in her book, Inkle, calls it "Speckled" the term which I have adopted and used over the years. It is also sometimes called, supplementary warp technique, European, Latvian, Scandinavian or Sami pickup. So many names…

Using a Sunna double slotted heddle with 9 pattern threads. The double slotted heddle is available in smaller sizes of 5, 7 and 9 shorter slots for patterns threads. These heddles can be used with a back strap, in a box loom or on a larger inkle loom. The Sunna double slotted heddle with 9 pattern slots. The Sunna double slotted heddle with 9 pattern slots. Here is the threading chart for the 9 Sunna double slotted heddle. The 9 pattern threads are numbered and are indicated in red. They…