Halvdrall weaving draft

Of the many interesting stops on the Vesterheim 2017 Textile Tour, none had a particular focus on krokbragd, a popular type of Norwegian weave structure. Yet… they keep showing up. The lates…

This draft shows the full threading and treadling for the runner without the errata.

Did you check out the halvdräll runner in the Nov/Dec 2011 issue of Handwoven? I've been eyeing the structure for several years after I received a sample in a Complex Weavers exchange several years ago. After I read the article in Handwoven, I decided to try it out, but with a twist or two. I have lots of little balls of yarn left over from bobbins (I save everything) and cones of yarn with just a bit on them. I collected oranges, browns, pinks and a few lavenders for warp yarns and set to…

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I would really like to see a discussion of the best way to translate an American weaving draft into a Swedish draft. The conventions are so different, I get brain freeze trying to do it myself!

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Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools