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I thought I had a global view of the culture and practice of weaving. Then a discovery revealed my unwitting Eurocentrism.

Large Diamonds (front side)

I have now finished another of the Baltic patterns in the Weaver’s Pattern Directory. And this time the book let me know it was indeed from Interweave Press. I find it so hard to understand i…

This is a PDF-file with Slavic Patterns for Inkle Weaving in Baltic Pick-up style. It contains 30 ethnic schemes from simplest ornaments for 7 pattern threads to more complete patterns for 19 pattern threads and one pattern for 21 threads. IMPORTANT! This file DOES NOT TEACH HOW TO WEAVE! It only

So far, one type of pickup stands out as my favorite way to create fancy patterns. It is most commonly know these days as "Baltic-Style" pickup. I learned it back in the 1970's from Helene Bress' book, Inkle Weaving. She refers to it as "Basketweave Background". Evelyn Neher in her book, Inkle, calls it "Speckled" the term which I have adopted and used over the years. It is also sometimes called, supplementary warp technique, European, Latvian, Scandinavian or Sami pickup. So many names…

Ready to get started with your inkle loom? Here’s how to read basic drafts.

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