Baltic weaving

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…

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

To celebrate our new video, Baltic Pick-Up on the Inkle Loom, we’re giving away one of the many beautiful Baltic pick-up projects found in the pages of Easy Weaving with Little Looms.

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…

Resources: Susan Foulkes' book, "Weaving Patterned Bands" is an absolute treasure. I learned a few things by reading my way through it that I didn't know before, although I've been using the technique for many years. I highly recommend it! Heather Torgenrud's website is really helpful for understanding pattern design and charts. https://norwegianpickupbandweaving.com/2015/05/12/pattern-design-basics/ Marieke Kranenburg has a video here with very clear instructions on how to read a pattern…

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Using a Sunna double slotted heddle with 13 pattern threads. This is the heddle that I use most frequently. Bands with 11 or 13 pattern threads can be woven comfortably. Sunna heddle, Gehpa shuttle, band lock and G-clamp Here is a heart motif. The thirteen pattern threads are red. The pattern and background threads are 6/2 cotton. The red pattern threads are doubled. There are 12 picks for the pattern repeat. The pattern chart shows only the coloured pattern threads when they appear on the…

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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…