Lesson #2: Weaving on a Frame Loom

After you loom has the vertical structure (called WARP) wrapped on it, you can proceed to weave. The side ways threads are called Weft.

Starting at the right side take a piece of the cloth strips we are using for this project about five feet long, and simply go over one vertical strip and under the next like the picture above. Weave the end out of the side for around ten inches as in the second picture. Clip it to a point.

Take this end and weave it back into the work in progress going in reverse of the prior row. In other words, over the strips that were under and visa-versa. Then from the right side weave in the over/under from the row below. This over under is called TABBY Weaving or PLAIN Weave. Proceed over the free end piece you had worked back in. This will secure your starting end and make a nice edge. If you plan to use your project as part of a rug stitch the end down also.

Weave in plain weave until you need your next cloth strip for weft. Trim the edge on a slant to prevent a lump in your project and overlap the new end and old end. Stritch together and proceed weaving.

Continue to plain weave until your project looks like the next picture.

If you wish to make a place mat you can stop two thirds up the weaving width and then make two mug rugs using the upper section, thus not wasting warp (vertical) material as in the next shot.

Great you have woven up one side of the loom. To make another place mat and mug rug set just flip the loom over and duplicate the work you did on the front.

Next week I'll show you how to actually weave right over and around on the loom to make a long continuous strip for a wide rug section or a table runner.

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