Weaving A Weft Faced Rug

I wound the skeins into center pull balls and wrapped two strands around the stick shuttle.

Weaving a weft faced rug.

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. If a weave has weft emphasis you can t have the warp as dense as. 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.

The pattern for the weft facing weave is to bring the weft over two warp threads and under one. Warping the loom for weft faced rugs is very fast. In weft faced pattern weaves weft color changes happen frequently. Sett for weaving warp faced cloth.

First a pass or one row of weaving only needs to wrap once at each selvage. 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 have been weaving for 7 years and this is my first rug. It s the weaving that takes time but it s the weaving that brings great satisfaction.

If you want a true plaid then you d want a precisely balanced sett so that the warps and wefts are both showing equally. Here is some sage advice gleaned directly from nancy hoskins book. This has provided an abundance of opportunity to work on starting and stopping colors and color control at the selvedges.