Weaving Today Rigid-Heddle Weaving Patterns from Weaving

Rigid-Heddle Weaving Patterns from Weaving Today

LIZ GIPSON Piping Hot Pillows VARIEGATED YARNS CREATE INSTANT PATTERNING!

a. Pass the shuttle through the shed, leaving a 5" tail. The rigid-heddle loom’s ability to handle bulky singles yarns with little shredding makes it an ideal tool for these pillows. The two pillows use a variegated singles in three ways (each pillow is woven on a different warp): as warp with a solid-color weft, as weft with a solid-color warp, and as both warp and weft. The pillows are each finished with a tubular piping that is delightfully simple to weave. Pillows

using the same design in an alternate colorway are featured b. Change the shed without bringing the rigid heddle forward. Take the shuttle under the warp on the cover of Weaving Made Easy . and back to the side where it previously entered.

WEAVE STRUCTURE WEAVE STRUCTURE FOR PILLOWS FOR PIPING Plain weave. Tubular plain weave. EQUIPMENT EQUIPMENT Rigid heddle loom, 16" weaving width; Rigid heddle loom, any weaving width; 8-dent rigid heddle; 2 shuttles. 8-dent reed; 1 shuttle. YARNS YARNS Warp and weft for both pillows: bulky Warp and weft: bulky wool singles (630 wool singles (630 yd/lb, Manos Del yd/lb, Manos Del Uruguay) Pumpkin c. Pass the shuttle through the open shed and Uruguay), Pumpkin #75 (orange) and then gently tug downward on the weft to tighten. #75 for one piping, Autumn #106, for Autumn #106 (variegated), 311 yd each. the other, 31 yd each. WARP LENGTH WARP LENGTH For each pillow: 124 ends 64" long (al- For each pillow: 10 ends 86" long (allows lows 5" for take-up, 27" for loom waste). 5" for take-up, 25" for loom waste). SETTS SETTS Warp: 8 epi. Weft: 6 ppi. Warp: 8 epi. Weft: 3 ppi. DIMENSIONS 1 DIMENSIONS Width in the reed: 15 ⁄2". 1 Woven length: 32" for each pillow. Width in the reed: 1 ⁄4". Woven length: 56". 1 Finished sizes: two pillows 14" × 14" each. Finished size for each piping: 1 ⁄4" × 56". d. After a few picks this way, cinch the end of the OTHER SUPPLIES Coordinating sewing thread, two 14" × 14" pillow forms. piping with five half-hitch knots and continue.

HW_34-35_Gipson.indd 34 9/11/08 5:33:32 PM 09112008173703 Weaving the tubular piping

Weave fabric and

trim on the Project same loom .

PILLOW FABRIC a gentle cycle with mild soap. Air-dry. Use Pumpkin as the warp for one pillow, For each pillow: Thread a tapestry needle Autumn for the other. Warp the loom. with 1 yd Pumpkin and sew the two raw Spread the warp with scrap yarn. For each edges together working just inside the pillow, hemstitch over the first and last 2 hemstitching. Handsew the selvedges of one picks and weave 16" with Pumpkin and side together, turn right side out (hem- 16" with Autumn. stitched raw edges will be inside), and insert the pillow form. Handsew together the THE PIPING selvedges of the remaining open side. Use Pumpkin for the piping for one pillow, Trim the piping just below the cinched Autumn for the other. Warp the loom. Weave knots and place this end at the center of each piping for 56" following Steps a–d, on the one edge of the pillow. Using coordinating previous page. Remove the piping from the sewing thread, whipstitch the piping to the The seventeen projects in Weaving Made loom. Tie half-hitch knots around the second pillow seam around all four sides. Trim the Easy give you complete directions for second end of the piping so that it overlaps weaving sensuous, drapey fabrics (yes, on a end to secure and trim. rigid heddle loom!); sturdy, practical fabrics; the cinched end where you began. Secure even fun and funky fabrics! Projects range FINISHING THE PILLOWS the trimmed end with five half-hitch knots from scarves and tops to bags and belts, Machine wash the fabric and the pipings on and stitch to the pillow. from pillows and placemats to rugs.

Mariellen boss A kitchen valance structure in Brooks bouquet Plain weave with Brooks bouquet. It’s only plaIn weave, but bRooks bouquet gIves equipMent thIs cloth a fancy lacy textuRe. Rigid-heddle or 2-shaft loom, 16" weaving width; 12.5-dent rigid heddle, 12-dent rigid heddle, or a soar workshop in rigid-heddle weaving by Joan sheridan 12-dent reed; 1 shuttle. has kept me happily heddling ever since! Yarns n old Shuttle-Craft Guild monograph plain weave at the start and at the end of the Warp: 8/2 unmercerized introduced me to Brooks bouquet. Since weaving allowed for narrow doubled hems cotton (3,360 yd/lb, Yarn A Barn of Kansas), #5096-B I spin and knit, I thought that the handwork that would become the sides of the valance. Cerise, 665 yd. involved in this technique would be fun and The yarn I used is a 10/2 unmercerized cot- Weft: 8/2 unmercerized keep my interest—and I was right! For ton I dyed using a knitting machine dyeing cotton, 5096-B Cerise, something small to practice with, I decided technique by Nancy Roberts (something I also 558 yd. on a valance for a kitchen window, thinking learned in a SOAR workshop). This technique of a valance as basically an overgrown scarf. results in a graduated dye color across the Warp length To the finished height of the size valance I piece, and you can place the colors where you 1 190 ends 3 ⁄2 yd long wanted (the width of the fabric on the loom), want them to appear. The effect in my valance (allows 4" for take-up, I added 4" for draw-in and shrinkage. Then I is very subtle. The instructions given here are 26" for loom waste). measured the width of my window and added for 8/2 unmercerized cotton, which comes in setts one half that measurement to the woven many colors so that you can plan a valance 1 Warp: 12 ⁄2 or 12 epi length to allow for ruffling. that goes with the décor in your chosen room. (1/dent in a 12.5-rigid I planned a plain-weave casing for which heddle, 12-dent heddle, one selvedge could be folded only once to or 12-dent reed). hold the curtain rod. Since the opposite sel- ResouR ces Weft: 12 ppi. vedge would be used as the bottom edge, no Tidball, Harriet. Two-Harness Textiles: The Open- Work Weaves. Shuttle Craft Guild Monograph DiMensions bottom hem would be required. I allowed 3" 21. Petaluma, California: Shuttle-Craft Books, of plain weave for the casing and about ½" of 1 1967, pp. 13–14; Brooks bouquet worked on an Width in the reed: 15 ⁄5" plain weave for the bottom edge. A bit of open shed with a closed-shed variation. for 12.5-dent heddle; 5 15 ⁄6" for 12-dent heddle 1. Brooks bouquet or reed. Woven length (measured under tension on the loom): 96". Finished size after 1 washing: 10" × 81 ⁄2" with 1 1 ⁄2" casing along one selvedge (top of valance) 1 and ⁄4" (side) hems.

4 © F+W MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. F+W MEDIA GRANTS PERMISSION FOR ANY OR ALL PAGES IN THIS ISSUE TO BE COPIED FOR PERSONAL USE. WEAVINGTODAY.COM maRCh/aPRil 2009 HANDWOVEN | 51 5 3 2 1 Center for a width of 15 method with 190 ends 3 ends 190 with method Warp the loom using your preferred dent rigid heddle or 15 or heddle rigid dent is worked on a closed shed): With the For the Brooks bouquet (this variation plan to machinezigzag. h picks of plain weave for a rolled hem. that the slot threads are up, weave 12 sopositioned heddle the and right theon shuttle the with Beginning area ontheleft. patternbouquet Brooks the from divide the casing section on the right toreed)(or heddle the of top the aroundreed)and youa are if using (orright fromforty-fourththe dent yarn through the twenty-second slot warp.Tiethe markertension a and weave).plain for loom Tie shaft on the left through a hole (or thread the onone last the and slot a through goesright the on thread warp firstthe that so Threadheddle the reed.12-dent or heddle rigid dent emstitch over the first 2 picks orpicks 2 first overthe emstitch © F+W MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. F+W MEDIA GRANTS PERMISSION FOR ANY OR ALL PAGES PAGES ALL OR ANY FOR PERMISSION GRANTS MEDIA F+W RESERVED. RIGHTS ALL INC. MEDIA, © F+W 1 ⁄ 5 ⁄ 5 1 " in a 12.5- ⁄ 6 " in a 12- a in " 2 yd long.yd IN THIS ISSUE TO BE COPIED FOR PERSONAL USE. WEAVINGTODAY.COM USE. PERSONAL FOR COPIED TO BE ISSUE THIS IN 4 row of Brooks bouquet for 94" or the weaveplain picksa 5 with ternating row.bouquet the peat Continue,al- reand right, the on shuttle the with Weave 5 picks of plain weave, ending selvedge.out to theleft raisedthreadsandthe under shuttle the pass and shed original makethe bouquets. warp22 haveyoumade until over6 the sequence of under 12, back up and Repeatover6. and up back and left, threads, down under 12 threads to the 6over right the to back shuttle Takeformed). bouquet (1 gether the to- threads six of groupfirst the ing drawtop, the to up back and 6), first the (including left the to threads 12 under downand then and right the to the marker and back up and over them of left threadsthe 6 to first the under Takeshed). shuttlethe the (close up out of the shed. Release the heddle marker.the to shed shuttle the Bring takethroughright, shuttle the the the formon topshuttle the and shed) downheddle (so threadsslot the that a fter the last bouquet, last the fter - - slightlyto work thewarp bouquets. 5 a. t he valance ontheloom:tension isreleased m plain weave andhemstitch. ofpicks required. 12 with End length and stitch alongselvedge. half,press,in selvedgesection 3" the stitch a narrow hem. For the casing, fold machine and twice, turn ends), zag (orzig- hemstitching tomachine close Trimdamp. Pressslightly while fringe achine wash, gentle; hang to dry.to hang gentle; wash, achine

Mairellen boss Project TIP: Th e rigid-heddle loom has the advantage over a fl oor RIGID-HEDDLE OR loom of allowing relatively loose tension with stretchy 4-SHAFT PROJECT knitting yarns. Place the weft at about a 30-degree angle, bring the heddle forward, and press in the weft . If you are using pattern sticks, you might have to increase the tension.

LESLIE ANN BESTOR A cushy alpaca pillow for a STRUCTURE fi rst project in knitting yarns Spot Bronson variation. EQUIPMENT WARP FLOATS (REDWOOD) SHOW ON ONE SIDE OF THIS Rigid-heddle or 4-shaft PILLOW, WEFT FLOATS (BUCKWHEAT) ON THE OTHER. loom, 19" weaving width; 12-dent rigid heddle or reed; 1 or 2 pick-up hat’s tricky about weaving with knitting sticks; 1 shuttle. THE PILLOW Wyarns is that they can be stretchy. If stretchy Th is pillow uses a pick-up pattern of fl oats and YARNS yarn is beaten too hard during weaving, the fabric plain weave (see Resources). I wove two pillow Warp: 50% alpaca/50% can become too dense and stiff . Weaving with faces and sewed them together so that warp fl oats wool (144 yd/50 g skein, light tension is the solution to this—especially appear on one side and weft fl oats on the other. If 1,315 yd/lb, Berroco Ultra easy to do on a rigid-heddle loom. you weave the pillow on four shaft s, allow two Alpaca Light, Webs), I work a lot with knitting yarns on my yards for warp length and use light tension. #4281 Redwood, 405 yd. rigid-heddle loom. DK (double knitting) Weft: same as warp, #4204 weights (900–1,500 yd/lb) and worsted weights Buckwheat, 245 yd. RESOURCES (640–1,000 yd/lb) are well suited for 12-dent Davenport, Betty Linn. Textures and Patterns for OTHER SUPPLIES and 10-dent rigid heddles. Loom waste is less on a the Rigid Heddle Loom. St. Paul, Minnesota: Dos Tejedoras, 1980, pp. 7, 27 (pick-up technique). 16" square pillow form, rigid-heddle loom, important with luxury yarns. matching sewing thread. Wind a warp of 222 ends 65" (1 yd 29") 5x 17x 5x 1 44 4 44 long. Centering for 18 ⁄2", thread 2 ends 1. 4-shaft WARP LENGTH 1 3333 3 draft 222 224 ends 65" long through each slot, beam, and then re- 1111 11111 11 / 1 thread 1 end of each pair in the adjacent 2 " (allows 2" for take-up, / 27" for loom waste). hole. Tie onto the front apron rod and pick-up sticks, you can slide Pattern / / spread the warp with scrap yarn. Weave Stick A to the back when you use / / SETTS 1 ⁄2" plain weave with Buckwheat. Pattern Stick B.) Continue, alternat- / / Warp: 12 epi (alternating 1 ing Pattern Sticks A and B for 17 ⁄2", / slot/hole in a 12-dent / With the heddle down (slot threads up), including the plain weave at the / 12x rigid heddle, 1/dent insert Pattern Stick A behind the heddle: beginning. End with another ½" of / 2 / in a 12-dent reed). over 5 warp threads, *under 3, over 3, and plain weave. Weave the second / Weft: 12 ppi. / repeat from * across the warp, ending pillow face in the same way. On / / over 7. Weave 8 picks as follows: four shafts, warp and weave both / DIMENSIONS / 2 *1. Heddle down, stick pushed back. pieces as in Figure 1. / Width in the reed: 18 ⁄3". 2. Heddle up, stick brought forward / Woven length (measured / (to just behind the heddle). / under tension on the Remove the fabric from the / / 1 3–6. Repeat from * two times. loom. Machine zigzag or serge 2 " loom): 36" (18" for each 3 / panel of the pillow). 7. Heddle down. raw edges and between pillow Finished sizes after 8. Heddle up. faces. Cut faces apart. Wash in Eucalan or washing: two pillow With the heddle down, remove Pattern other wool soap and air-dry. Pin the two 1 1 faces 16 ⁄2" × 16 ⁄2" each Stick A and insert Pattern Stick B as follows: faces together with weft fl oats on the right for a pillow 16" × 16". over 8, *under 3, over 3, and repeat from * side on one piece, warp fl oats on the other. across the warp ending over 4. Use the Machine stitch around three sides. Turn pillow same weaving sequence with Pattern Stick right side out, insert pillow form, and hand- B as for A and remove stick. (If you have two stitch remaining side.

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