Double Weave on 4-Shafts
Welcome to Double Weaving on 4-shafts with Felicia Lo
Learn how to weave with double weave on a 4-shaft loom in this video course with Felicia Lo. You will find patterns for a mini-sampler, a bread bag, plus a double-width double weave blanket. In this course, Felicia first talks about the theory behind double weave by illustrating how it works through weaving drafts then explores the specifics of how to tie-up a rising shed jack loom, a sinking shed counterbalance loom, and a countermarch loom. Then we work through the different sequences that you can weave in order to produce either two separate layers of fabric, a tube of fabric where the two layers are joined on both sides, or a double-width fabric where the two layers are joined on one side.
We know you can read all the books about double weave and look at diagrams and weaving drafts until your head spins… but at the end of the day, sitting down at your loom and just practicing raising different shafts to create different sheds will really help you understand how it all comes together.
For this course, you can use a table loom, a jack loom, a countermarch loom, or a counterbalance loom. Felicia discusses how all the techniques work on the different looms, so you’ll feel confident with your own equipment.
Throughout the videos, you’ll learn:
- How does double weave work?
- Double weave threading
- Odds vs evens
- Parallel threading
- Double weave tie-ups for 4-shafts looms
- Jack loom
- Counterbalance tie-up
- Countermarche tie-up
- Double weave sequences
- Weaving two separate layers (two shuttles)
- Weaving double width (one shuttle)
- Weaving a tube (one shuttle)
- More double weave notation
- Sett and yarn choices
- Weaving double weave
- Weaving the mini sampler
- Weaving a double width blanket
- Setting up the blanket warp
- Weaving the blanket
- Tips for weaving double weave
- References & resources
Included in the Double Weave on 4-Shafts course is a comprehensive workbook containing double weave theory, tips, and resources. The course includes a sampler pattern and a double-width blanket pattern, kits are available through SweetGeorgia Yarns.
Talk about the Double Weave on 2-shafts course with members of the School of SweetGeorgia. Post project pictures, share personal reflections, and join the conversations in our Community Forums!
Tag what you are making everywhere with #sosweaving and #schoolofsweetgeorgia!
Reminder to join us online today for the final live lecture presentation in Laura Fry`s Fundamentals of Weaving Series, Colour Considerations! We`ll be starting at 12:00 PM PDT (3:00 PM EDT), and Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth.
We`ll see you online soon!
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The last lecture in master weaver Laura Fry`s Weaving Fundamentals series is coming up tomorrow… join Laura for our live lecture presentation Colour Considerations! Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth. This Zoom lecture and Q&A session is open to all SOS members, and will be recorded and posted at the School following the presentation.
Follow our link in bio to the entire Weaving Fundamentals lecture series for all of the fabulous information that Laura has shared with us over the past couple of years.
Colour Considerations Live Lecture with Laura Fry
September 6th, 12:00 PM PDT on Zoom
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#fo Before & After: Wet finishing edition. Look at how big of a difference it made! Interestingly, it only shrank for 2 inches warp-wise and 1.5 inches weft-wise. The minimal shrinkage is probably due to a combination of the cashmere not being fulled properly and it blooming significantly in the water.
(Please avert your eyes from the mistakes which I painstakingly corrected before wet finishing)
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Coming up in early September will be the final lecture in the Weaving Fundamentals series… join instructor Laura Fry at our live lecture presentation, Colour Considerations! Taking place September 6 at 12:00 PM PDT, Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth.
This Zoom lecture and Q&A session is open to all SOS members, and will be recorded and posted at the School following the presentation if you`re unable to make it live. Find more information at the SOS Event Calendar, linked in our IG bio.
#sosweaving #schoolofsweetgeorgia #masterweaverlaurafry #colorgamp #weaving #handwoven #handwovengamp #weavingwithcolor #weaversofinstagram
Travel pillow!
This travel pillow was made from the schoolofsweetgeorgia twill study group sampler last year.
I had planned to make it into a tote bag from it. You can see about halfway through the slightly larger plain weave section where I planned it cut in half. I used my inkle loom to make matching handles (for the tote bag) from the same yarn. I was happy to get this project done.
But as I was looking through my stash to find a suitable fabric to make a travel pillow, I couldn’t help but think, this gistyarn Beam sampler is sooooo squishy and soft. This is something I want to dive my face into lol. It is perfect!! Scrap the bag idea. Plus the inkle-woven straps are perfect for tying the ends of the pillow together.
My old travel blanket was a down-filled lap blanket. The down was breaking out everywhere lol. I couldn’t touch it without being covered in feather fluff. So I rolled it up twice in some quilting fabric and used it to fill my travel pillow. The feathers are now securely sealed inside (I hope lol).
I’m really happy with how this turned out! Soft outside, squishy inside!!
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I was trying to weave summer and winter without changing my tie-up… trying to take a short cut and just use the tie-up I had for overshot. But it made it slow, confusing, and inefficient. Just taking a bit of extra time to change the tie-up and also switching out a shuttle that kept catching… now this is weaving so easily and so quickly.
Sometimes it’s better to take the time upfront to stop, reset, and make things right. It just makes everything work better.
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Blocks!! This is the very start of an exploration into summer & winter on my 4-shaft counterbalance loom. Only two blocks are possible with four shafts, but I can see the possibilities…
Warp yarn: vennecolcoton 8/2 organic cotton
Pattern weft yarn: ashford_wheels_looms 5/2 mercerized cotton
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Downloads
- Duet Sampler Pattern PDF
- Cabin Blanket Pattern PDF
- Double Weave on 4-Shafts Workbook PDF
- Double Weave Project Weaving Calculations (Google Sheets)
Equipment
Duet Sampler:
- 4-shaft loom with a minimum 15" / 38 cm weaving width
- 6-dent reed or 12-dent reed
Cabin Blanket:
- 4-shaft loom with a minimum 25" / 66 cm weaving width
- 6-dent reed or 12-dent reed
*Please follow this link for Warping Equipment & Additional Tools needed.
Materials
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Duet Sampler:
- Warp & Weft: 2 cones of Gist Duet, 1 cone of each colour Rust (Colour A) and Marble (Colour B) (600 yards / 548 m per 4 oz / 115 g cone; 2,390 ypp; 55% European Tow Linen and 45% USA-Grown Cotton)
Cabin Blanket:
- Warp & Weft: 8 skeins of SweetGeorgia BFL+Silk Fine (370 yards / 338 m per 3.5oz / 100g skein; 75% Bluefaced Leicester Wool, 25% Silk):
*Kits are available at SweetGeorgia Yarns
Additional Supplies Shown/Demonstrated
- Weights
- Fishing line
- 2 Shuttles (for bread bag)
- Serger and/or sewing machine
- Rotary cutter or scissors
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Course Content
About Instructor
Course Includes
- 9 Lessons
- Course Certificate
