To form the pattern you pick up or drop pattern threads. The coloured squares represent where the pattern threads float on top of the weaving and the others indicate where the pattern threads float underneath the weaving. Patterns for bandweavingĪ bandweaving pattern looks like a pattern for knitting in two colours.
I will be selling both types of heddles in my Etsy shop soon if you would like to try this kind of weaving. Laser cutting a bandweaving heddle from Judy Kavanagh on Vimeo. Then I spent a long time sanding them back at home.
This is much quicker and more accurate than cutting all those slots and holes by hand. I designed the heddles and shuttles using Adobe Illustrator and cut them out of maple using one of our public library’s laser cutters. I also made some Sami style heddles which make picking up pattern threads very easy with its pointed tip. One has an extra row of holes on top compared to a regular rigid heddle and the other has extra shorter slots. I made myself heddles of two different styles to play with. One end of the warp is tied to my waist and the other end tied to something solid like a door handle, chair or tree. I weave backstrap style which is cheap, easy and portable. You can also weave these patterns using a regular rigid heddle or an inkle loom but it is more time consuming. Weavers in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries traditionally made beautiful bands this way. The pattern threads are picked up or dropped depending on the pattern. This technique uses supplementary warp threads to form the pattern by floating on top of or underneath a base layer of weaving. I’ve recently become fascinated with weaving narrow bands using a special band heddle.
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