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Basketweave Setup – Thread Placement The Honeycomb Effect By Lady Johanna Fleming Step by Step 1)     Start by warping a border with your background threads. 2)     Warp your single pattern threads 3)     Warp 2 backgrounds 4)     Continue alternating between 1 (pattern) and 2 (background) threads until you have a sufficient # of pattern threads a.      The # of Pattern threads should be equal to the # of columns in the pattern. The # of columns IS important for setup. The # of rows is irrelevant. 5)     Warp your border of background color and you’re ready to weave! a.      For the middle section – your pattern threads you’ll see are alternating between heddle and open. When you begin to inkle weave, this thread placement will create a honeycomb or basketweave look. Keep in mind when reading this pattern; you start from top to bottom, left t...

Tutorial is done!! Took a week and a half to write up a tutorial on "Beginning Pick Up Weaving." To be taught this coming weekend at Daggers and Hemlock SCA Event in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. You can find the tutorial here if you missed the class and also watch a video that goes with it. Videos are slowly being uploaded to Youtube.com because they freaking take a long time to upload!Hoping to get 2 more videos uploaded on how to actually warp correctly the Horizontal method and the other on starting and finishing. Part 3: Copy of Tutorial: Pick Up Weaving: Horizontal Stripe Method By Lady Johanna Fleming (AKA Jennifer H.) For horizontal stripes, you need your pattern threads in the open position and your backgrounds in the heddle position. You’ll need the same number of threads counting left to right; we do not count from top to bottom. The number of columns is important but not the number of rows. You can add a border; they will be just as wide as the pattern...