Weaving Patterns With Pick Up Sticks

With a pick up stick you can easily pass over more than one warp end to create lace spot weaves honeycomb and other interesting patterns.

Weaving patterns with pick up sticks.

3 1 lace insert pattern stick 1 up 1 down repeated across 1. The yarns are picked up behind the heddle and the stick is left in the warp to be used when the weaver wants to use it to create floats breaking the over under pattern of plain weave. Pick up sticks are simple and brilliant at the same time. This class assumes that you have the ability to warp and dress your own loom without assistance and are reasonably comfortable doing so.

For a rigid heddle loom they are a wonderful discovery. These 2 shafts allow you to work plain weave which is a perfectly lovely weave structure on it s own but most weavers will begin with plain weave and then want to increase their own skills and their loom s capabilities. 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. In addition to the yarns in the holes being up the stick is also lifting up the threads that are on the pick up stick up.

A rigid heddle loom has 2 shafts essentially the hole threads and the slot threads. Using a pick up stick is an extremely versatile creative and fun way of introducing pattern and texture in your weaving. To weave a warp float place the heddle in the up position and slide the stick towards the heddle. By kelly 20 comments.