Weaving A Weft Faced Rug

First a pass or one row of weaving only needs to wrap once at each selvage.

Weaving a weft faced rug.

However look at a machine woven plaid the warps are denser than the wefts for ease in weaving. If a weave has weft emphasis you can t have the warp as dense as. Then repeat two over one under etc. If you want a true plaid then you d want a precisely balanced sett so that the warps and wefts are both showing equally.

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. Weft faced weaving is used in tapestry techniques in rug making and in weft faced pattern weaves often termed boundweave. I have been weaving for 7 years and this is my first rug.

Warping the loom for weft faced rugs is very fast. This has provided an abundance of opportunity to work on starting and stopping colors and color control at the selvedges. In weft faced pattern weaves weft color changes happen frequently. 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.

Here is some sage advice gleaned directly from nancy hoskins book. 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. I wound the skeins into center pull balls and wrapped two strands around the stick shuttle.