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Update on Swedish Pattern Booklet
This booklet has been out of print for a while, but I’m happy to announce that a second printing is now available, exclusively at the Vesterheim Museum Store. https://store.vesterheim.org/products/swedish-pick-up-patterns-by-heather-torgenrud?_pos=1&_sid=6bfc8f1a6&_ss=r If you prefer a pdf format instead, please contact me. I’ll send you an invoice for $10 and email the pdf to you. Thanks to Joanne… Continue reading
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Pick-Up Pattern from Nordfjord in Norway
Pick-up sample. After suspenders, NFM.1979-04131, Nordfjord Folkemuseum. In preparing to present a webinar for Vesterheim on Norwegian bandweaving, September 21, 2025, I was intrigued with the pattern in a pair of suspenders from the Nordfjord region of Norway that I’d chosen to illustrate my talk. So I charted the pattern from the photograph and wove… Continue reading
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The Bandweaver’s Neckpiece
Hello Bandweavers! I recently wore one of my little band heddle neckpieces to a weavers’ guild meeting where it got a lot of attention, so I wanted to share a few of them with you. I begin with a small band heddle. I bought the square one pictured below from Sätergläntan in Sweden. The shaped… Continue reading
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A Hand-Carved Band Heddle
Hello Bandweavers! My Weaving Posse gave me this sweet little heddle, which was hand carved by Kerstin Neumüller from Sweden. I love its character and the way the maker’s hand shows in the little details. It’s charming, and it’s perfect for weaving the narrow pick-up patterns we’ve been looking at in my last two posts.… Continue reading
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Narrow Pick-Up Bandweaving Patterns–Three Approaches
Narrow patterns are fun to weave. In the last post, I provided 24 charts for five pattern ends in Baltic-style pick-up. In this post, I’ll show you three examples of how narrow patterns might be used in a band: by threading two identical pattern sections, by combining different motifs, and by simply repeating one pattern… Continue reading
Norwegian Pick-Up Bandweaving 