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    Pattern Weaving: Basics for the Handloom
    Pattern Weaving: Basics for the Handloom
    Pattern Weaving: Basics for the Handloom
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    Pattern Weaving: Basics for the Handloom

    By Rabbit Goody

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    Basic steps needed to weave luxurious fabrics on a foot-treadle handloom.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStackpole Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9780811748841
    Pattern Weaving: Basics for the Handloom

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      Pattern Weaving - Rabbit Goody

      Contents

      Introduction

      The Loom and Other Pattern-Weaving Tools

      Basic Skills

      The Warping Process

      Loom Preparation and Beaming On

      Winding on the Warp

      Threading a Pattern

      Sleying the Reed

      Tying on to the Cloth Apron

      Tying up the Treadles

      The Filling

      Sitting down to Weave

      Projects

      1. Two-Color Checked Scarf in Worsted Wool

      2. Ms and Os Cotton Placemat and Runner Set

      3. Herringbone-Checked Seamed Blanket

      4. Cotton and Linen Table Set in Bronson Lace (Tied Spot Weave)

      Next Steps in Pattern Weaving: Weaving Float-Work Patterns

      Yarn Counts and Their Yardage

      Glossary

      Yarn and Equipment Suppliers

      Introduction

      In its most elementary form, weaving is a binary process that involves the crossing of vertical or lengthwise yarns, the warp thread, with horizontal or width-wise yarns, the filling, or weft threads. The horizontal yarns go either over or under the vertical yarns in a set pattern or sequence that generates a design. The tool used to produce the woven object is the loom, operated by the weaver.

      How is weaving different from knitting or other fabric construction? Weaving creates fabric that can be easily cut and sewn. It is also an efficient way to produce multiples—several scarves, blankets, placemats, and so on.

      With weaving, you can make patterns that are an integral part of the cloth, not simply something printed on the surface. And weaving is highly versatile from a design standpoint: You can make patterns with color but also with weave structure, or with combinations of both.

      This book on basic pattern weaving will teach you all the steps you need to weave on a foot-treadle handloom. The tips and variations will help you to explore your own creative weaving ideas and give you a firm understanding of the whys and hows of handweaving. It is set up to familiarize you with common patterns and weave structures, but it is not strictly a cookbook of designs.

      There are four projects in this book with complete directions, but when you finish it, you will understand how to use the weave structures and techniques from each of these projects to make a wide variety of other items and to explore your own ideas in pattern weaving.

      I don’t have a clear understanding of why I began weaving, but I know that I have a natural affinity for it. I somehow understood weaving before I ever began to weave. I was part of the hippie generation and the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and ’70s, and I wanted to build my own house, grow my own food, and make my own clothing. (I have, in fact, done all that.) But I began making my clothing by spinning, using a drop spindle made from a stick and a potato. When I started weaving, I understood how weaving worked in the same way that someone who picks up a musical instrument can just simply play that instrument without being formally taught. I think of weaving and my relationship to it as a part of the human consciousness. Making cloth is innately human. In addition to food and shelter, every culture makes some form of clothing.

      I have been working as a professional weaver for more than thirty-five years, both as an independent trade crafter and as a museum interpreter and curator. As a professional weaver in the 1970s, making a living by my craft, I was sure that there were better ways to efficiently weave cloth than the methods that were being taught by revival handweavers to each other. What seemed to be missing was an efficiency and a complexity of production that existed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when handweaving was the only way that fabrics were produced.

      I was fortunate that I worked in the historical museum field and had access to collections of rare books and tools that allowed me to understand the technology of French, German, and English weavers from the sixteenth century forward. What I realized was that much of the historical weavers’ information had been incorporated into the textile trades and the textile industry, but it was ultimately lost to the modern handweaver.

      Today handweaving has become an art form as well as a trade. I stand with a foot in two worlds: one in the world of the handweaver producing beautiful and useful textiles and one in the world of the trade weaver running a craft shop in much the same way that weavers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries did.

      I weave on many types of handlooms and power looms. Some of our equipment is old and recycled power looms that were run on flat belts from stationary engines. Our more modern mechanical jacquard from the 1960s originally was making fabrics for automobiles. I weave on barn-frame looms and on a Weavebird (LeClerc) computer-controlled handloom.

      Much of my weaving work is the reproduction of textiles from the past, but my interest is also in how textiles were produced using the equipment of earlier time periods. My focus then is in process and methods.

      The goal of this book is to teach methods of production and the process of basic pattern weaving that will allow readers to create whatever textiles they want with the efficiency and quality that empowers them.

      The Loom and Other

      Pattern-Weaving Tools

      Four-Harness Foot-Treadle Loom

      This book uses a four-harness jack loom, but it does not matter what loom you are using. The basics of weaving on a foot-treadle harness loom are the same. There are three basic types of looms, all characterized by the movement of the harnesses, also called shafts. There is one kind in which the harnesses are raised when you step on a treadle, another kind in which the harnesses are lowered when you step on a treadle, and a third kind in which some harnesses are raised while the others are being lowered. The important function of the harnesses is to make a division between the threads you will send your shuttle over and the threads you will send your shuttle under. It does not matter for basic weaving how that is accomplished. All looms have the same basic parts. The photo diagrams on the following pages will help you familiarize yourself with the parts of the loom and their functions.

      • Warp beam: The length of the warp is stored here before it is woven.

      • Back beam: A cross member on the loom that the warp goes over to run in a flat plane to the harnesses and beater.

      • Brake: Used to keep the tension on the warp.

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