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Ashford Handicrafts Limited
415 West Street, Ashburton 7700, New Zealand
Telephone 64 3 308 9087
[email protected] www.ashford.co.nz
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Designing Your Masterpiece
You can weave a fantasy. Just weave from your heart changing the colours as you feel for an original piece.
Or take a piece of paper the size of your weaving space. Draw a design of your choice. Secure the paper to a piece of cardboard the
same size (24x33.5cm approx). Following the design on your paper, carefully ink on the pattern to the threads on the loom. Use a
water resistant felt marker pen.
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Useful Hints
* When placing in the weft threads, make
little hills with the yarn across the row.
* Beat the threads into place with a
tapestry beater, a dinner fork or use
your fingertips.
* Try to mix different materials e.g. fleece, wool sliver, cotton
shoelace, fancy yarn... by using the knot.
* Be creative – use different textures of yarn – handspun fibre is
great! Spin chunky singles or novelty yarns.
* To start and finish each colour leave out
2-3cm (1in) weft thread at the back of
the work.
* Each thread fits together into the woven
structure like a jigsaw puzzle, only the
weft is visible.
* When one square sits beside another
there will be a clear line. Do not
interlock the threads.
