Inkle band patterns

Most often, I seem to work in 2" widths, creating the guitar straps which are the main product that I sell. Consequently, many of the patte...

Learn how to warp and weave your inkle loom. Weave a beautiful floral band with the free printable pattern!

Explore Baltic pick-up, from setting up your inkle loom to weaving bands efficiently to getting tidy selvedges.

Making a Wallet from Inkle Bands Using the Ashford Inklette Loom I designed this watermelon wallet after visiting Dallas, Texas in June ...

♥ ♥ Greetings fellow fibre junkies! ♥ ♥ First I thought I'd play around with supplemental weft. In the following two bands I have two wefts (horizontal) threads on separate shuttles: one finer and one that has 3 or more threads. I open the shed normally and throw through the fine weft, the, holding the same shed open drop selected warp threads, and shoot the thicker weft through. This allows that weft to pop up to the surface and create a pattern I couldn't make with a basic threading alone…

Over Easter I had the chance to work with an inkle loom. An inkle loom makes narrow (less than 6cm) very strong bands of weaving. Very 70’s I found patterns to sew inkle bands together to mak…

Well, it turns out that there's much more to this book project than I realized. I'm very grateful to my friend and book designer, April Jouse, for helping me organize all of the information in a consistent and nice-looking format. It has required many re-do's and I would have given up many times, except that I really believe in the information that I have to share. The book will be fun to use because the 200 patterns which I've charted will be interactive. They were created using the Band…

I love Latvian Flower Bands. There's an out-of-print book called "Latviešu Jostas" (in English "Latvian Sashes, Belts and Bands") by Aleksandra Dzērvītis and Lilija Treimanis in Latvian and English where these band patterns are found. I learned how to weave a Latvian Flower Band from a wonderful "Winter Belt WAL" (weave along) in the Knit Like a Latvian Ravelry group, which was so interesting, educational, inspirational, and so much fun. They are really fun to weave. Here's the Latvian…

♥ ♥ Greetings fellow fibre junkies! ♥ ♥ First I thought I'd play around with supplemental weft. In the following two bands I have two wefts (horizontal) threads on separate shuttles: one finer and one that has 3 or more threads. I open the shed normally and throw through the fine weft, the, holding the same shed open drop selected warp threads, and shoot the thicker weft through. This allows that weft to pop up to the surface and create a pattern I couldn't make with a basic threading alone…

Yes, this is a blog post in English... Sorry! I've recently started weaving bands on an inkle loom, and got to find something to use them f...