Baltic style inkle weaving patterns

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Quarantine collection! Guitar straps in Baltic pickup woven between March 16 and April 8. Patterns are from Foulkes, Dixon, Hergenhan, Bläse, and MacHale. Please click on the photo to enlarge it! I was really looking forward to a series of workshops that I was scheduled to teach in California early this year and had fun preparing for them. Before the Corona Virus Pandemic hit and shut down our social interaction, I happily got to complete the first two workshops in San Diego and Exeter. We…

♥ ♥ 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…

Laverne Waddington on Instagram: "A beautiful flower pattern by Gerbelien which is one of the 45 charted patterns in my newly released book Warp-faced Double Weave on Inkle Looms. It’s available as a PDF or as a spiral-bound book at taprootvideo.com. #inkleweaving #inkleloom #bandweaving #doubleweave #weaversofinstagram #pickupweaving #flowerpatterns #handwoven #weavingbooks"

I have now finished another of the Baltic patterns in the Weaver’s Pattern Directory. And this time the book let me know it was indeed from Interweave Press. I find it so hard to understand i…

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 gives you a collection of ornaments for your new beautiful bands, belts, straps, and so on. No matter if you weave on your inkle loom or on your rigid heddle or in some other back strapping way…