{"id":850,"date":"2015-03-15T08:58:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T13:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2015-03-16T16:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:07:45","slug":"wedge-weave-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Wedge Weave Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wedge weave is a type of weaving style that gives a distinctive look as the &#8220;rows&#8221; are woven diagonally. According to what I&#8217;ve read, this style of weaving may have become less popular\u00a0as buyers of rugs wanted a straight edge, and this gives a very unusual scalloped edge due to the way the weft pulls against the warp. There are many different ways to use this style, and some weavers drop in a little here and there while others weave this way for the entire project.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources on wedge weave, also known as pulled warp:<\/p>\n<p>Peter Collingwood has a very good overview of the technique in his Techniques of Rug Weaving book, available via PDF here. Scroll to page 164:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.arizona.edu\/patterns\/weaving\/books\/cp_rug1_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cs.arizona.edu\/patterns\/weaving\/books\/cp_rug1_2.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Profile of weaver\u00a0Connie Lippart:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/studio24-7.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/connie-lippert-wedge-weave.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/studio24-7.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/connie-lippert-wedge-weave.html<\/a>, and a terrific overview article by her:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.unl.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&amp;context=tsaconf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/digitalcommons.unl.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&amp;context=tsaconf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some image searches from Google (hopefully without the wedge shoes that keep showing up!): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=wedge+weaving+pulled+warp&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=667&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=gIwFVYGTIcKZgwT7oYLgBw&amp;ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&amp;dpr=1#tbm=isch&amp;q=wedge+weave+-shoes+-sandals\" target=\"_blank\">wedge weave images<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My little sample, about 4&#8243; x 5&#8243;, worked out okay for a first try. I learned how to start and stop threads, add new colors, and carry a pattern. I also found out that the loose threads should be woven back in otherwise they&#8217;ll pop through to the front. I have some floats here and there, as I puzzled through how to reverse directions. I wove this on a Goodwood Pocket loom.<\/p>\n<p>On the loom:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/rBBnXE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7649\/16811899352_87f715c59a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Wedge Weave Sample\" width=\"599\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And off the loom. I was pleased to see that even with my loose and sloppy weaving, the scalloped edges came through:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/rkg6nP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7607\/16626877389_ec0cecdce4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Wedge Weave Sample\" width=\"599\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedge weave is a type of weaving style that gives a distinctive look as the &#8220;rows&#8221; are woven diagonally. According to what I&#8217;ve read, this style of weaving may have become less popular\u00a0as buyers of rugs wanted a straight edge, and this gives a very unusual scalloped edge due to the way the weft pulls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[289,47],"tags":[346,17,292,347,303,14,345],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tapestry-weaving","category-tutorials","tag-goodwood","tag-loom","tag-navajo","tag-pocket","tag-weave","tag-weaving","tag-wedge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-dI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}