Sample Weave: Plain Weave Checks

December 1, 2015

Here’s my sample weaving project with rigid heddle loom. I tried to do things systematically and first thing I did was selecting yarns and made several yarn wrappings to find colourways I like. Then I warped the loom with one stripe design and started weaving with seven deferent weft stripe designs.

 

Yarns
From top left: 50% cotton 50% polyester Luminous Pink, 100% lambs wool Persimmon Orange, Tender Shoot Green, Ocean Wave Blue, Hyacinth Violet, From top right: 100% lambs wool Vanilla Ice White, Moon Struck Grey, Gardem Glade Green, Ecru Olive Green, Desert Palm Brown

 

weaving process on rigid heddle loom

woven fabric close-up

woven fabric on rigid heddle loom

Woven sample
Woven sample

 

yarn wrappings for the sample weave
Yarn wrapping for warp on top left and six other wrappings for weft stripe design.

 

woven fabric using same warp and weft stripes
Same warp and weft design

 

woven fabric

woven fabric

woven fabric

woven fabric

woven fabric

woven fabric

warp on rigid heddle loom and cones of yarns

various types of shuttles for weaving