 Weaving Today Publishes Free Rug Weaving Patterns plus Tips for Successful Rug WeavingWeaving Today publishes free eBook dedicated to the art of creating beautiful and colorful handmade area rugs. The experts at Weaving Today are taking weavers on a rug weaving journey with instructions and rug weaving patterns to weave rugs.
By: Weaving Today The Free eBook can be Downloaded at: http://www.weavingtoday.com/ From hand woven wool rugs to woven cotton rugs full of color and texture, the experts at Weaving Today help weavers accomplish stunning results with free rug weaving patterns plus tips and tricks for making hand woven rugs in no time! Included as a bonus, is an article full of ideas for choosing a woven rug pattern. Rug Weaving Patterns: Handwoven Scandinavian Rug A Boundweave Rug, Slow Weaving but soooo satisfying! By Tom Knisely Weavers who like weaving (as opposed to counting heddles, drafting, planning, ordering yarn, and warping) will love making a handwoven Scandinavian rug from boundweave. Every part of the project goes quickly except the weaving. It's like taking a month for a vacation instead of a weekend – you can savor instead of rush. Many rug weavers have full schedules that leave little time for weaving, so projects that can be completed in little time are ideal. This project is a different way to look at time, because warping the loom for weft-face rugs takes very little time and the weaving is what takes longer. The rug weaving however is what brings the satisfaction. Rug Weaving Patterns: Handwoven Scandinavian Rug Indonesian batik and a Swedish technique by Debra Sharpee The batik fabric that is cut into strips for the weft in this hand-woven rug was dyed with indigo (batik is a dye technique used in many parts of Africa and Asia). When we weave, we are connected to weavers, spinners, and dyers everywhere. The advantage to using a batik fabric for a rag weft is that in batiks, the dye is evenly distributed on both sides of the cloth. Since there is no "wrong" side, weavers do not have to worry about placing a batik rag weft carefully in the shed. Commercial batiks like the one used in this woven rug pattern are available from quilting and fabric stores. Rug Weaving Patterns: Handwoven Scandinavian Rug Getting Started with Warp Rep by Tom Knisely The word "rep" comes from the Swedish term "rip", which describes the horizontal ridges produced in a cloth with a very closely sett warp and a thick weft. In addition to a delightfully smooth ribbed texture, through the use of color rep can produce a richly patterned cloth on as few as four shafts. This woven rug is a great project for teaching a beginner the joys of warp rep. Bonus Rug Weaving Guide After the Rug Workshop by Martha Stanley First selecting a woven rug pattern to attempt can sometimes be the biggest step. Stimulating mental images can be whirling around each other, colliding like bumper cars at a carnival. They are more like the noise from a crowd than a chorus in thrilling harmony. They're causing confusion, not focus. What to do? What to do! This bonus article can help sort things out a bit. Some ideas can be put aside for a later project; still, too many seem too good. Beginners can learn how to weave a rug by starting with the basics-and taking advice from a bonus article included with the free rug weaving patterns. The Free eBook can be Downloaded at: http://www.weavingtoday.com/ Source: http://www.weavingtoday.com # # # Weaving Today is an online community for hand weavers who are looking for a place to share, learn, and be inspired. The site offers free weaving loom projects, instructional weaving videos, and weaving techniques from expert weavers. End
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