Weaving A Weft Faced Rug

However look at a machine woven plaid the warps are denser than the wefts for ease in weaving.

Weaving a weft faced rug.

Here is some sage advice gleaned directly from nancy hoskins book. First a pass or one row of weaving only needs to wrap once at each selvage. The pattern for the weft facing weave is to bring the weft over two warp threads and under one. It s the weaving that takes time but it s the weaving that brings great satisfaction.

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. In weft faced pattern weaves weft color changes happen frequently. This has provided an abundance of opportunity to work on starting and stopping colors and color control at the selvedges. Sett for weaving warp faced cloth.

If a weave has weft emphasis you can t have the warp as dense as. I have been weaving for 7 years and this is my first rug. Then repeat two over one under etc. 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.

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. Weft faced weaving is used in tapestry techniques in rug making and in weft faced pattern weaves often termed boundweave. If you want a true plaid then you d want a precisely balanced sett so that the warps and wefts are both showing equally.