Weaving Using Pick Up Sticks

You can do more than tabby plain weave with a rigid heddle.

Weaving using pick up sticks.

To place a pick up stick place the heddle in the down position so only the slot threads are up. Here s what i ve been geeking out on lately. When using a. The action imparted on the yarn is both the up which lifts the yarns threaded in a hole and the pick up stick which lifts the picked up slotted threads on the stick.

In first fall edition of knitty i ll address weft floats. Once charged you can slide the stick to the back of the loom and continue to weave plain weave. This class assumes that you have the ability to warp and dress your own loom without assistance and are reasonably comfortable doing so. That s done by pushing your heddle into the down position and inserting a warp separator such as a stick paper cardboard or anything into the shed created behind the heddle so that you can see only all the slot threads.

I can use these same sticks whether my project is narrow or full loom width. Up and pick up stick up and pick up stick indicates the heddle should be in the up position and then the pick up stick is slid to the back of the heddle. Then you use a pick up stick to pick up only those. This is called charging the pick up stick.

You start with pick up control. I give a very basic primer on how it works and discuss how to weave warp floats. Then you pick up the configuration you want behind the heddle. In this case i m picking 1 down 1 up.

Pick up sticks can be used to create simple patterns for all over texture or to create complex designs that may travel or cover only part of the weaving surface. Incorporate one pick up stick and you can weave on 3 shafts. Your pick up sticks need to be longer than the width of your project or they won t hold the picked up threads.