Class:
Baltic Pickup for Inkle Weaving

Class Prep -- Warp your loom for the class

Class Info • Warping Info

Class info:

Tired of warped in inkle patterns? Want to do something more creative? SLearn how to add patterns to your work as you weave.

This workshop will cover Baltic style pickup. Specifically from The Weaver's Inkle Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon. I'll show you how to read her notation and we'll play with some of her patterns.

We will NOT be warping looms in class, but there will be a few small looms warped up for students to use if they don't have a loom of their own.

Length: 2 hours
Experience Level: Intermediate
Max. students: 10
Class fee: $5 for handouts
Student should bring (if possible):

• Paper & pen
• Inkle loom (warped as below)
• A shuttle with weft thread wound on
• Extra weft thread
• Pickup stick (or a letter opener, kabob stick, etc)
• A copy of The Weaver's Inkle Pattern Directory by Anne Dixon *if you already own one*

Warping info:

• Crochet cotton is recommended. I like size 3 or 5 as it works up faster
• Background color
• Pattern color
• This thread should be twice as thick as the background color
• OR warped as two threads
• Heddled: Warp the thread twice as a heddled thread, THEN attach ONE heddle to contain both of them
• Unheddled: Warp the thread twice as an unheddled thread, then move on to warp the next heddled thread
• Wrap the background thread on the shuttle

Starting with a heddled thread: Warp a solid color border by alternating 3 heddled BACKGROUND and 3 unheddled BACKGROUND threads

Warp TWO heddled PATTERN threads in one heddle (or 1 if using double think thread)

Warp an unheddled and a heddled BACKGROUND thread

Warp TWO unheddled PATTERN threads (or 1 if using double think thread)

Warp a heddled and an unheddled BACKGROUND thread

Warp TWO heddled PATTERN threads in one heddle (or 1 if using double think thread)

Warp an unheddled and a heddled BACKGROUND thread

Warp TWO unheddled PATTERN threads (or 1 if using double think thread)

Warp a heddled and an unheddled BACKGROUND thread

Warp TWO heddled PATTERN threads in one heddle (or 1 if using double think thread)

Starting with an unheddled thread: Warp a solid color border by alternating 3 unheddled BACKGROUND and 3 heddled BACKGROUND threads

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