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3 colour pick-up Inkle weaving
The thought of a horse’s bridle crosses the mind when we work with the Inkle loom. A controlled uni-directional journey with fine manoeuvres wherever required. Since Inkle weaving is a warp-faced weaving where the weft doesn’t show up, all the explorations and manipulations are directed in one direction- forward!
Moving forward after the few initial straps with colour play, we usually start exploring pick-up techniques, Baltic-style weaves, Monk belt structures and the like where we start picking up warp yarns as per the patterns.
The 3-colour pick-up is slightly different from the regular pick-up techniques in that you don’t drop the warp yarn adjacent to the picked-up yarn in the 3-colour technique. Easy to thread the loom and weave to get some gorgeous patterns! We used mercerised cotton 5/2for this project.
Talking about horse’s bridle, has anyone seen a colourful bridle woven on an Inkle loom? Please share the pictures if you have come across one!
Moving forward after the few initial straps with colour play, we usually start exploring pick-up techniques, Baltic-style weaves, Monk belt structures and the like where we start picking up warp yarns as per the patterns.
The 3-colour pick-up is slightly different from the regular pick-up techniques in that you don’t drop the warp yarn adjacent to the picked-up yarn in the 3-colour technique. Easy to thread the loom and weave to get some gorgeous patterns! We used mercerised cotton 5/2for this project.
Talking about horse’s bridle, has anyone seen a colourful bridle woven on an Inkle loom? Please share the pictures if you have come across one!
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