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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Pendleton selvedge plus Nantucket hooking = rug

22" x 36" rug woven and hooked from leftover materials

Spring Cleaning yielded a variety of leftover materials from which to weave a small rug:

 - Green, blue, yellow, and orange warp I'd dyed and spun from a BFL fleece

 - Black and orange Pendleton selvedge

 - Bulky art yarn I'd spun for hooking (from dyed Shetland and Romney locks)

 - Odds and ends of reclaimed bulky sweater yarn plied with various turquoise and magenta singles

Loom: Glimakra Victoria
Warp:  4 ends per inch
Weft: Pendleton selvedge and sweater yarn
Draft: plain weave
Weight of finished rug:  1 lb, 2 oz

Nantucket hooking creates patterns using bulky handspun rather than the more traditional strips of wool fabric favored by serious makers of hooked rugs

The magenta areas are weft-faced simple weave without hooked embellishments. Black and orange is Pendleton selvedge. Diamonds and triangles are hooked into the sweater yarn bands of weaving.

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