6/23/2023 0 Comments Inklet weaving length![]() ![]() It vanished when I left it in a school stockroom, when teaching kids to inkle, a few years back. My old inkle loom was a generic one got in the 1980s from Fibrecrafts (now George Weil) – that no longer seems to be in production. We can teach you using a floor inkle, a Schacht, a backstrap set up or you can indeed bring your own loom, if you want to learn the basics!įor home use, and not living history, I went with a Schacht inkle loom from The Loch Ness Spindle Company. So we will be playing with some viking crafts, including a bit of backstrap weaving, over the summer – message me here or email if you’d like to join us inkling in the viking houses! (Or indeed if you’d like to learn this one to one, or in a small group). This could just as well be achieved with a backstrap set-up, and would be structurally identical bands to those woven on a modern inkle. It is thought possible that the Anglo Saxons and Vikings may have used backstrap looms which have left no archaeological evidence – the Oseberg ship finds included a complete tablet loom, but some textiles were edged with what we’d now think of as inkle weaving. Although with the double holed heddle I also sometimes use a nalbinding needle to help with the pick up, if it’s a tricky row! I have a number of shuttles but find the curved Sámi style ones indispensible for pick-up. I treated myself to a stunning curved Sámi shuttle, from Ampstrike on Etsy (Gunnar Kallo), which has the Uffington horse on it, to go with my horses heddle. But am also now using a double holed heddle from Vavkompaniet (also Swedish) and am slowly figuring out a couple of different types of pick-up. I learned pick-up (finally) by using one of the brilliant double slotted Sunna heddles from Stoorstalka in Sweden. It helps that it is a longwool and spun in a worsted-ish way. Like the nalbinding it is brilliant for using up odds and ends, and am finding some Mystery English Longwool handspun, from a couple of years back, to be a more than adequate warp. So far I have used commercial cotton, commercial worsted wool as well as handspun, and commerical silk and linen thread. White handspun wool for background millspun oddments for pattern. I will need to weave this from some fairly fine linen or silk. I will also be weaving for the neckband of a contemporary linen dress ( Merchant & Mills’ Trapeze dress) as I have made two of this dress now and didn’t have fun with the facings, so am going to use handwoven inkle bands in place of bias binding on the neckline and armhole edges, to reinforce it without having to use a facing. My inkle loom does eight foot (ish) lengths and it has taken two lengths so far and will need part of a third. I’ve been weaving bands to go round the neck, sleeves, and skirt of a viking dress I have been hand-sewing. Then, maybe a dog collar… It’s wonderful how useful this stuff is! I’d like to weave aimlessly, for the fun of it, but every time I start something I think of an immediate ‘urgent’ use for it! When that’s done, I have a hatband to make. Currently, I’m weaving edgings for a new viking outfit. Something I have done on and off since the 1980s, although I only ever did simple threaded in patterns before and now am finally learning how to do pick-up patterns.Īlmost every band I’ve woven recently has been pressed into immediate use – I’d forgotten how handy inkle bands are! I made one into a phone case, nalbinding the edges together two others became ‘hinges’ for my two wooden clothes horses another became a strap for a homemade duffel bag, and yet another, the waist tie for one of my 1800 period petticoats. Over three hundred years on but only a few miles away from the now forgotten site of Mr Watson’s shop, I’ve been busy inkling, too. A kind of linen tape, or the thread or yarn from which it is made. 1 peice of callico,15s….a groze of Incle, 5s 46 peices of ditto att 10d £1.0.4… A parcel if wash balls, 10s…Total of inventory £344.2.4 4lbs of knitting needles, 2 s 3 paire of leather stockins, 1 s 6d…. 59 peices (sic) of small Incle att 8d., £1-19-4… 2 doz. 21 lbs of worstet att 2s., £2-2 4 1/2 of yarne at 18d per lb., 6s 9d…. of worstet stockings att 2s 6d., £1 5 pr of womens stockins at 1s 8d., …. ![]() Selby, Yorkshire).ĥ doz of stockins att 7s, £1-15- one doz ditto 13s 3 doz of childrens stockins att 2s 6 120 yards of blew linn, 8-17-8,…. The administration of Robert Watson’s estate (Shopkeeper. ![]()
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