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Kerstin Neumüller on Instagram: "I got some questions about the Blue horse heddles I posted yesterday, mainly about their function. These slates with holes and slits are weaving tools, in Swedish they are called “Bandgrind” and in English I call them simply “heddles”, although “Scandinavian rigid heddle for band weaving” would be more accurate. The heddles have traditionally been used to weave bands with, and I’ve been making them for 3 1/2 years now. If you want to know - How to make…

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Using a Sunna double slotted heddle with 13 pattern threads. This is the heddle that I use most frequently. Bands with 11 or 13 pattern threads can be woven comfortably. Sunna heddle, Gehpa shuttle, band lock and G-clamp Here is a heart motif. The thirteen pattern threads are red. The pattern and background threads are 6/2 cotton. The red pattern threads are doubled. There are 12 picks for the pattern repeat. The pattern chart shows only the coloured pattern threads when they appear on the…

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two bracelets with different designs on them, one in blue and the other in black

With the Baltic Style Pick Up Technique you will be able to do complex and impressive patterns. This technique is known under different names depending on where ancient bands have been found. You will find sources, that state, it is Baltic Pick Up, when the pattern threads are twice as thick as the background patterns and most of the background shows the so called basket weave. Others say, it is called speckled background, when you see a lot of the "spots" in the background. There are even…

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Welcome to my new Home page. I hope you enjoy reading my posts about my passion for backstrap loom weaving. If you are viewing this on a mobile device, you can find additional content such as backstrap loom FAQs, tutorials, pattern charts, articles, videos and other resources by clicking on the Menu tab above left…

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