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Category: Pebble weave

2 different designs using one warp.

I wanted to weave with some lovely pinkish-mauve yarns for a while, so I set up a regular 16 cards weave with Oseberg edging using these these colours (even though I don’t really use much pink, but the colours spoke to me). But when I started weaving, I feel that it turned out a bit too pink and I hesitated to change it by cutting out one or 2 threads per card. In the end I flipped the motif colors (mauve) and the background colour (green) and continued to weave approximately 2 m. I also worked on some variations of the leaf theme for 16 cards, which I will upload on the design page.

Then I attached the weft and cut out the accompanying colours to do some pebble weave with 2 missing holes, and it turned out much nicer than my initial weave. I regret not doing it sooner, since I only had enough warp to weave around 60cm.

The 1st belt looks like this:

The second, shorter pebble weave looks like this:

It’s amazing how the mauve colour looks so different (nicer) when the lighter thread is gone.

The switch…

That dreaded pebble weave…

I really love pebble weave and I really hate pebble weave (or 2-hole weaving). I love the simplicity of the 2 colors and the little contrasting dots. But anyone who has tried it knows the problem with the cards going all over the place. My solution is to support them on a piece a card board, but it is not perfect. This project is a bit shorter than usuall, to make a strap for my viking bag.

Here is the weaving:

And here is the bag. I am quite happy with the result.

By the way, all of my designs can be used to do pebble weave. The orange and brown are threaded in opposite holes (A and C or B and D according to the threading instructions). This pattern is using 16 motiv cards and 4 border cards.

To clarify on the threading, this is how I threaded this weave:

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