Weaving A Weft Faced Rug

If you want a true plaid then you d want a precisely balanced sett so that the warps and wefts are both showing equally.

Weaving a weft faced rug.

The pattern for the weft facing weave is to bring the weft over two warp threads and under one. First a pass or one row of weaving only needs to wrap once at each selvage. Weft faced weaving is used in tapestry techniques in rug making and in weft faced pattern weaves often termed boundweave. I wound the skeins into center pull balls and wrapped two strands around the stick shuttle.

Whenever you have a moment you can spend it joyfully at your loom no thinking or planning only the rhythm of weaving the feel of the weft watching the growing pattern tom knisely structure. Boundweave is a general term and includes many techniques such as krokbragd flesberg rosenbrogd rosepath treskaft and others. If a weave has weft emphasis you can t have the warp as dense as. Here is some sage advice gleaned directly from nancy hoskins book.

It s the weaving that takes time but it s the weaving that brings great satisfaction. Sett for weaving warp faced cloth. For this project i wanted to weave a simple weft faced rug that would accentuate the color variations in this tapestry rug wool from mountain meadow wool mill. The neat thing about this weave is that it floats the weft over the warp threads and the more you push your rows down together the more the warps are hidden.

Then repeat two over one under etc. Warping the loom for weft faced rugs is very fast. I have been weaving for 7 years and this is my first rug.