Soumak weaving

The blog of designer Patricia Cantos with thoughts and ideas on knitting and crochet and other fibre crafts.

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Ever since I began experimenting with waves in my weavings, I can’t seem to get enough of them. I love the fluidity and beauty that curves can create. So today, I’m popping in to share 5 wavy weaving techniques that you can add to your own weaving projects. Fun and quirky, waves are a great way to jazz up your weaving repertoire. (If you are brand new to weaving, don’t worry, I’ve got you covered with several links to tutorials that will help you along the way). Some of the techniques I’m…

I had a nice surprise almost immediately after completing the last blog: a note from the Bradford College textile workshop to say they’d changed their plans and I could keep weaving my swatch…

fiercelykind on Instagram: How do you soumak? Soumak is one of my favorite weaving techniques. When you complete two rows of it, it forms a braided look. There are…

There have had a lot of questions about the Soumak weave, and the variations of it that I use when weaving wire. So, I've decided there is no time like the present to cover this subject. I discovered the Soumak weave in a tutorial on YouTube when I was first researching different types of weaves I could do with wire. I have to credit Beadaholique here, and this is a link to that tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uoGp6yF5q4 . I watched this video about 20 times, or until I came up…

I previously wrote about the different ways to use the pile weave to get very different looking weaves. It was so fun to look at all the different ways to use that technique that I also wanted to share some different ways I've used the soumak weave to get different looking weaves. The basic steps

sonya.benham on Instagram: How I add “soumak” weave to my macrame pieces. I’m not a weaver and for some reason I really struggle with changing directions with this…

Have you seen the anthropologie, boho style wall hangings popping up everywhere lately? This fall I got really into weaving again because of them. I say again, because when I was in high school, I did some weaving, both on a tabletop cricket style loom (my color choices were...