Jan 02 2008

Clasped Weft Weaving for Great Designs

Here is what you can achieve with Clasped Weft. It’s an easy technique for making angled patterns and only requires two shafts. These visual instructions use two colours (green and blue).The green weft is wound onto a bobbin on a shuttle and the blue weft is drawn up from the floor underneath the loom.. I think this will look great as a table runner and helps me to weave a little every day. You can plan the design beforehand but it’s such an intuitive technique that feeling the colours and design as you go feels really good.

Here is the blue weft in a ball placed on one side of the weaving on the floor underneath the loom.

Open the shed and bring your shuttle across the open shed (green weft) and pick up the blue weft on the other side as shown. Next, return the shuttle across the same open shed.

Here you can see me pulling lightly on the green weft and drawing across the blue weft which is now looped through the green weft.

Keep pulling on the green weft until the position of the colour change is where you want it then beat the row into position. Change sheds and repeat the procedure.

10 responses so far

10 Responses to “Clasped Weft Weaving for Great Designs”

1. # Taraon 02 Jan 2008 at 9:29 pm

   

   I’d always wondered how that was done…your photos and instructions make it all so clear and simple that you’re inspiring me to give it a try. Thankyou!

   (I’m a fellow Aussie weaver, although now in the UK)

2. # kimberlyon 02 Jan 2008 at 10:54 pm

   

   Oh that looks like great fun and I would like to try that

3. # Charleenon 03 Jan 2008 at 7:32 am

   

   Very interesting, Kaz. So you have two threads (of the same color) in each shed? I think that’s why I didn’t grasp the idea before. It looks striking and I think I’d like the idea of designing as I go along.

4. # Peg in South Carolinaon 06 Jan 2008 at 11:12 am

   

   I’ve seen clasped wefts used in “regular” (i.e., non weft-faced) weaving as well. I think about trying it once in a while, but it does seem a bit much with fine threads…………

5. # Lynneon 09 Jan 2008 at 9:20 am

   

   this gets me thinking……
   thanks for the great instructions!

6. # Elenaon 10 Jan 2008 at 10:32 am

   

   Thanks for these instructions, they are very clear and make me want to try this technique!

7. # Marthaon 12 Jan 2008 at 7:25 am

   

   Lovely project, really love the colors. Where did you acquire the Saori loom?

8. # Kiwion 19 Sep 2008 at 1:55 am

   

   How interesting!! I must try it! Thank you for showing how to do it.
   Kiwi

9. # Querienon 28 Sep 2008 at 11:15 pm

   

   Hello Kaz,
   I like your demo (specially the demo on Youtube), I am now experimenting with wool but I use 4 threads in a centimeter. The result is to course. I thnik I have to use a finer thread. I wonder if you tried this technique with 3 colours in one line. Ik tried that but that makes it very complicated.
   Greeting from Holland.

10. # Marianneon 03 Aug 2009 at 7:15 pm

    

    Wow, thank you for this, I am eager to try this now!

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