Huck lace weaving

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…

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 …

Double huck lace on 24 by Cally Booker. Such pretty blues and huck is always appealing. :o)

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…

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 article is the third and final installment in a series about lace weaves. Different lace weaving techniques can create wonderful effects, from open and airy sections providing the illusion of shapes and curves, to toothsome textures. In this blog, learn about the unique attributes of Huck and Spot Bronson lace weaves.

Still working through some of the many possibilities.

eggshell shawl on loom

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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…

It's time for another episode of the School of Weaving that builds on everything we've learned about Huck. Swedish Lace is Huck's cousin. They live on the same side of Lace Street. Swedish Lace units are the same as Huck's but in Swedish Lace we are allowed to repeat those units as many times as we want. Ms. Swedish Lace is a little more lenient :) When we understand how this works, it means we can use Swedish Lace and Huck in one piece....as you will see in our show and tell…

Some people seem to know what to do the first time. The rest of us, including Madelyn learn by the mistakes we make.

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

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…

I am back to work on my blog after a long hiatus. The first thing I want to do is share some videos with you that I have created. Jane Stafford I am not, and I can promise you these videos are...

Many Lace and Spot Weaves are created by warp floats and weft floats on a plain weave background. Lace has openings or holes and spot weave has closed spots. In my favorite book on weave structur…

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Huck lace from Weaving a Gem of Life

Huck Lace cotton tea towels Weaverbird Designs.