Category Archives: Weaving Drafts

A selection of weaving drafts

Weaving Drafts

Twill Weaving Draft

One of the basic weaving drafts is the twill draft. In a twill weave, one or two consecutive warp threads are raised and two are lowered. On the following pick the next 2 warp threads are raised and two are lowered, creating a diagonal slant to the fabric.

2/2 Twill
twill draft

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Twill and Tabby Towel Pattern
Hot Tub Towels Pattern
Weaving on a Cardboard Loom
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Weaving Drafts, Weaving Patterns

Weaving Drafts: rosepath

rosepath draft

Swedish rosepath draft

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Weaving Drafts

Weaving Drafts
Birds Eye
Finnweave
Log Cabin
Krokbragd

Handweaving Pattern Books

Weaving for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide (Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide to Weaving Series)
Provides beginners with the information they need to weave in a clear and enjoyable step-by-step way.
UK: Weaving for Beginners

The Handweaver’s Pattern Directory
Introduction to the tools, equipment, fibers, and yarns used with four-shaft looms, this reference features patterns for 600 different weaves, including twill, zigzag, diamond, herringbone, and block
UK: Handweavers Pattern Directory

A Handweaver’s Pattern Book
A collection of 377 patterns for four-harness weaving, organized in groups of similar designs. This is one of the first weaving books I bought and it is still one of my favourites.
UK: Handweavers Pattern Book

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Weaving Drafts, Weaving Patterns

Weaving Draft: Birdseye

Bird’s Eye drafts are one of my favourite types of drafts. There are several variations of threading and treadling that you can choose from. Bird’s Eye can be woven with very fine cotton and linen yarns for placemats or tablecloths or thicker wool for cozy blankets.

Birds Eye Weaving Draft

birds eye draft

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Weaving Drafts

Rosepath
Sami Weaving Drafts
Summer Winter
Huck Draft
Monks Cloth

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Handweaving Pattern Books

Weaving for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide (Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide to Weaving Series)
Provides beginners with the information they need to weave in a clear and enjoyable step-by-step way.
UK: Weaving for Beginners

The Handweaver’s Pattern Directory
Introduction to the tools, equipment, fibers, and yarns used with four-shaft looms, this reference features patterns for 600 different weaves, including twill, zigzag, diamond, herringbone, and block
UK: Handweavers Pattern Directory

A Handweaver’s Pattern Book
A collection of 377 patterns for four-harness weaving, organized in groups of similar designs. This is one of the first weaving books I bought and it is still one of my favourites.
UK: Handweavers Pattern Book

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Tablet Weaving, Weaving Drafts, Weaving Patterns

Tablet Weaving patterns: tablet102

This tablet woven band uses 10 weaving cards.

Warp: 12/2 Linen
Red – 8 ends
Black – 24 ends
White – 8 ends
Total – 40 ends
Weft – 12/2 Linen – Black

tablet weaving

tablet weaving pattern

Paivatar Tablet Weaving Cards
Paivatar Tablet Weaving Cards

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I now hand dye high quality worsted wool yarns with plant dyes that are suitable for tablet weaving. Please visit my shop on Etsy for more information. PaivatarYarn on Etsy.

Tablet Weaving Patterns

Card Woven Edging
Tablet Woven Belt
Woven Bands

Card Weaving Books

Card Weaving
With nothing more than colored yarn and simple cardboard squares, crafters can produce exquisitely patterned woven bands.
UK: Card Weaving

Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands
300 pages dealing with the history of tabletwoven bands.

Tablet Weaving

A Tablet Weaver’s Pattern Book
200 hundred card weaving patterns to explore and weave.

Weaving Bands: Woven bands / Table Bands / Plaited Bands / Insertion Bands

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Weaving Drafts, Weaving Patterns

Weaving Draft – Summer Winter: aa032701

Summer and Winter is a very versatile draft. This project uses 8/2 cotton yarn for making reversible placemats.

summer winter placemat

Summer Winter Placemat Pattern

Warp 8/2 Cotton Length 3 yd Sett 18 epi No. Ends 256 Finished Width 12″ Finished Length
Including Fringe 19″

Threading

The Summer/Winter draft was threaded in Blocks as shown below.

Summer Winter Weaving Draft

Summer/Winter Pattern Draft

Block # Repeats # Ends
A 6 24
B 5 20
A 8 32
B 8 32
A 10 40
B 8 32
A 8 32
B 5 20
A 6 24
Total 256

Treadling

I wove these placemats as a sampler, varying the treadling between Singles and Pairs.

Finishing

Each placemat was woven to a length of 18″ on the loom. Handfinishing was done on the loom using Hemstitch finish. Between each placemat, the warp was advanced 2 inches, to allow a fringe.

After weaving, I cut the warp from the loom, and put it through a wash and dry
cycle in my washer. After washing, I ironed the placemats and trimmed the fringes.

Variation: Chenille Towels

handwoven chenille towels

Instead of using 8/2 cotton for the weft, you can also try using cotton chenille. In this sample I wove 1450 ypp cotton chenille for the pattern shots of the draft alternating with 8/2 cotton for the tabby shots. I think that this combination would be nice for bath towels.

Summer/Winter Draft

Weaving Patterns

Hemp Rep Weave Placemats
Twill Tabby Towels

Hand Weaving Books: Weaving Projects

Mastering Weave Structures
How to design threadings, channel the design power of the tie-up, and make the most of threading options, as well as understand fibers, setts, and color interactions.
UK: Mastering Weave Structures

Favorite Scandinavian Projects to Weave: 45 Stylish Designs for the Modern Home
A collection of 45 different furnishing textiles: colorful blankets, fanciful table runners, classic curtains, and embroidered hand towels.
UK: Favorite Scandinavian Projects to Weave

The Treasure Chest of Swedish Weaving
Complete pattern drafts for rugs, curtain, table cloths, towels, bedspreads.
UK: Treasure Chest of Swedish Weaving

The Big Book of Weaving: Handweaving in the Swedish Tradition: Techniques, Patterns, Designs and Materials
This book covers basic subjects such as warping a loom and making bobbins of weft, as well as more elaborate, highly decorative projects: baby blankets, shawls, table cloths, and linen hand towels.
UK: Big Book of Weaving

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Weaving Drafts, Weaving Patterns

Weaving Drafts – Huck draft: blma-babyhuck

I’ve used this weaving draft for baby blankets and it makes nice, thermal-type blankets. It didn’t work well with Peaches & Cream yarn I think because my sett was too wide at 6 epi. I often use two colors or one color plus white, alternating them in the blocks because that creates nice effects in the basket weave blocks. The huck is a 3-thread huck.

huck basket weave

By Marina

Huck Lace

Huck Lace Baby Blanket
Huck Lace
Hemp Hammock
Leno Lace

Weaving Books: Beginner Weaving

Weaving for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide (Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide to Weaving Series)
Provides beginners with the information they need to weave in a clear and enjoyable step-by-step way.
UK: Weaving for Beginners

The Handweaver’s Pattern Directory
Introduction to the tools, equipment, fibers, and yarns used with four-shaft looms, this reference features patterns for 600 different weaves, including twill, zigzag, diamond, herringbone, and block
UK: Handweavers Pattern Directory

The Weaver’s Book of 8-Shaft Patterns
A thousand different patterns on more than 25 weave structures.
UK: 8 Shaft Patterns

Weaving Made Easy: 17 Projects Using a Simple Loom
The small, portable rigid heddle loom can be used to easily produce loose, drape-friendly fabric as well as dense, sturdy material.
UK: Weaving Made Easy

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How To, WEAVING, Weaving Drafts

Doubleweave pickup: bltan-pickup

Double Weave Pickup

Well Folks, I tried a new technique today, it’s from the Jan/Feb 1999 issue of Handwoven. You can see the page I did at my pickup page which describes my technique more.

doubleweave pickup

This is the partially finished project.

doubleweave pickup

I lifted up shafts 2 & 4 and picked up with the knitting needle all the stitches that were the pattern,
then I pushed the needle to the beater.

doubleweave pickup

I let go of 2 & 4 and lifted shaft 1.

doubleweave pickup

Leaving shaft 1 up,
I threw the background weft (the yellow) from the right, then beat.

doubleweave pickup

I then lifted shafts 1&3 and picked up with the knitting needle all the background parts of the pattern.

doubleweave pickup

I then lifted shaft 2 and then threw the pattern weft from the right.
I repeated this process again, throwing from the left, and lifting shafts 3, then 4.
I kept this up until I was done and the middle square was actually a pocketed double weave…. So I stuffed it with poly-fill, and then threw the next background and pattern weft and followed the process for awhile:

This is time consuming but it’s really neat!

Tantrika2

Pickup Weaving

Leno Lace Pickup
Rigid Heddle Pickup
Beaivi Rigid Heddle Loom
Finnweave Pickup
Weaving Books
Norwegian pick-up and designs for double weave
The Weaver’s Journal : Interview with Jack Lenor Larsen; Wire Weaving; Woven Felted Boots; 4-shaft Twill Neck Scarf; Loom Controlled Quilted Fabrics; Simple Matelasse By the Pick-up Method; Matelasse Double Cloth Stiched to Form the Design (Vol. 7 No. 1, Summer 1982)
Magic of Doubleweave: The Best of Weaver’s (Best of Weaver’s series)
The Weaver’s Studio: Doubleweave
Doubleweave: On Four to Eight Shafts by Ursina Arn-Grischott (2000-06-28)

The Weaver’s Companion (The Companion Series)
The Weaver’s Companion (The Companion Series)
Learning to Weave
The Big Book of Weaving: Handweaving in the Swedish Tradition: Techniques, Patterns, Designs and Materials

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How To, Weaving Drafts

Handweaving – Name Drafting – 8 Shaft Looms: aa010200

Words or names can be incorporated into weaving to create original designs. Using name drafting, secret messages can be sent in a piece of woven cloth. By substituting each letter of the alphabet or numeric value for a particular thread or shaft, words can be hidden in the pattern of the fabric. On a 4 shaft loom, the letters of the alphabet can be arranged to correspond with the 4 shafts:

Name Draft – 4 Shaft Loom
SHAFT 1 A E I M Q U Y
SHAFT 2 B F J N R V Z
SHAFT 3 C G K O S W .
SHAFT 4 D H L P T X

There are many different ways to design a name draft. Try it out, using your own name.
Experiment with different colours, codes and threadings to create your own signature piece.The following table shows one way of coding using an 8 Shaft loom. Sometimes you will need
to experiment with different coding systems to create a pleasing woven effect.

Name Draft – 8 Shaft Loom
Shaft 1 A I Q Y 7
Shaft 2 B J R Z 8
Shaft 3 C K S 1 9
Shaft 4 D L T 2 0
Shaft 5 E M U 3 .
Shaft 6 F N V 4
Shaft 7 G O W 5
Shaft 8 H P X 6

Using the above coding system, on an 8 shaft loom, ALLFIBERARTS.com would be drafted as
follows:

A 1
L 4
L 4
F 6
I 1
B 2
E 5
R 2
A 1
R 2
T 4
S 3
. 5
C 3
O 7
M 5

And woven, this name draft would look like this

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Name Drafting
Interweave Press has an article about how to do name draft weaving.

More about Weaving Name Drafts:

More Name Drafting
Weaving this pattern as overshot

Weaving Drafts

Birds eye
Rosepath
Advancing Twill

Weaving Books: Weaving Drafts

Rug Weaving Techniques: Beyond the Basics
Concise instructions and explanatory diagrams techniques for plain weave, twill and block weaves.
UK: Rug Weaving Techniques

Weaving Made Easy: 17 Projects Using a Simple Loom
The small, portable rigid heddle loom can be used to easily produce loose, drape-friendly fabric as well as dense, sturdy material.
UK: Weaving Made Easy

The Weaver’s Idea Book: Creative Cloth on a Rigid Heddle Loom
Techniques include leno, Brooks bouquet, soumak, and embroidery on fabric.
UK: Weavers Idea Book

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