Huck lace weaving drafts

Last year I saw a scarf at an art fair. It was TENCEL with a huck lace pattern along its length. The color was a beautiful jewel tone lime green. It has been in the back of my mind to weave somethi…

This year is certainly the time for local workshops – and in March, I was able to attend, courtesy of the Telarana Weavers Guild in Mesa, Arizona, Tom Knisely’s Huck Lace Workshop. Tom …

I know how to do Filet Crochet, it’s very open, lacy, looks beautiful using fine yarns, and patterns can be easily designed on graph paper. So, I thought why not try to weave something like …

I had a few cones of beautiful alpaca-silk yarn from Webs that I had bought when I started crocheting a couple of years ago. But once I ...

I decided to take part in this years annual challenge with the Online Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers http://www.onlineguildwsd.org.uk/ The title of the challenge was 'A Lace for All Seasons.' The brief was broad - any techniques and skills as long as spinning, weaving or dyeing were included. When I first started to learn to weave, I wove a silk stole on a table loom in the weaving class I attended. It was a pattern by Sharon Alderman. I loved her patterns and always looked out for any…

Huck lace from Weaving a Gem of Life

Huck

This week in weaving class I continued to work on my huck towels. I finished the requisite 33″ on the first draft discussed last week – not without an issue that was causing me no smal…

This summer I’d like to weave and sew a lacy top. One of my first weaving projects as a silk scarf woven in huck lace and plain weave. It was so delicate. I am always intrigued with lace weav…

I know how to do Filet Crochet, it’s very open, lacy, looks beautiful using fine yarns, and patterns can be easily designed on graph paper. So, I thought why not try to weave something like …

142 ends at 15 epi…weft was just kissed into place. Easy draft and was quick to weave. Wrinkles very easy though. Had to get quite rough with the yarn in order for the yarn to move within the huck...

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It's likely that lace in all its woven forms will be high on my list of 4-shaft projects. I've been playing with drafts for 4-shaft lace. Huck seemed like a good place to start, since the constraints of the structure make decisions easy. There are two primary pattern blocks: A, and B. A can be warp spots or weft spots or plainweave, and must be surrounded by PW or B; B can be warp spots or weft spots or plainweave, and must be surrounded by PW or A. You can't weave both A and B as warp spots…

My third warp came off great and I would the yarn for the final warp of shawls. Again, I tried to get the correct number of warps, and again I was wrong. This time I had about 16 extra warps. Extra ends from miscounting I don't know what my problem has been with this dummy warp (a bit of a dummy myself?), but I was careful and did not cut this bunch of yarn, I was able to wind it back up on bobbins and used it for the weft. (There is another tale, 5 yards of warp on the floor and me walking…

As Lynn Tedder writes in this article, originally published in the November/December 2018 issue of Handwoven, huck is a structure for all seasons.

It's likely that lace in all its woven forms will be high on my list of 4-shaft projects. I've been playing with drafts for 4-shaft lace. Hu...

eggshell shawl on loom

4 Shaft Weaving Draft