I had previously woven a rug that I called the "Heavenly Handwoven Rug". It has been at the top of my Etsy site from day 1. Revisiting the rug this many months later, I felt the design needed to be augmented a bit.
Where I used 2 ends of 8/4 rug warp per dent in a 5 dent reed before, I decided to sley 2 ends per dent in a 10 dent reed. I then realized that I didn't have enough 8/4 in natural. I did, however, have a massive cone of 8/2 in natural. I wound two threads together and treated them as 1 end. I hope it will add texture to the fringe as well as the rug itself.
When I last wove this rug it was weft faced with no warp showing and was woven in plain weave. I'm trying to make this warp multi-purpose. I'd like to make 2 of the weft faced puffy rugs and one rug, all in cotton, woven as overshot. To accomplish this, I am threading my 4 shaft loom in a design called "Tile" by Josephine Estes.
I tried overshot with the fuzzy yarn & it wasn't working so I just wove plain weave. I love it!
For the next rug I used grey rug wool & 16/8 mop cotton to weave the overshot. I think it's looking pretty good.
I've got 1 more rug to finish before vacation. Looks like I'll have a lot of fringe knotting & twisting in my future 😀
Happy Weaving!
