woven band
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I’m In Easy Weaving with Little Looms Magazine
The Winter 2026 issue is about weaving with wool! My bookmarks on page 42 each have three braids at the top for making multiple pages. Continue reading
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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
