Weaving A Weft Faced Rug

Then repeat two over one under etc.

Weaving a weft faced rug. First a pass or one row of weaving only needs to wrap once at each selvage. It s the weaving that takes time but it s the weaving that brings great satisfaction. 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. Warping the loom for weft faced rugs is very fast.

However look at a machine woven plaid the warps are denser than the wefts for ease in weaving. Boundweave is a general term and includes many techniques such as krokbragd flesberg rosenbrogd rosepath treskaft and others. If you want a true plaid then you d want a precisely balanced sett so that the warps and wefts are both showing equally. In weft faced pattern weaves weft color changes happen frequently.

Weft faced weaving is used in tapestry techniques in rug making and in weft faced pattern weaves often termed boundweave. The pattern for the weft facing weave is to bring the weft over two warp threads and under one. 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. 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.

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