Weaving Using Pick Up Sticks

I give a very basic primer on how it works and discuss how to weave warp floats.

Weaving using pick up sticks.

Your pick up sticks need to be longer than the width of your project or they won t hold the picked up threads. Incorporate one pick up stick and you can weave on 3 shafts. I can use these same sticks whether my project is narrow or full loom width. That s done by pushing your heddle into the down position and inserting a warp separator such as a stick paper cardboard or anything into the shed created behind the heddle so that you can see only all the slot threads.

Then you pick up the configuration you want behind the heddle. This class assumes that you have the ability to warp and dress your own loom without assistance and are reasonably comfortable doing so. In first fall edition of knitty i ll address weft floats. You start with pick up control.

Then you use a pick up stick to pick up only those. Up and pick up stick up and pick up stick indicates the heddle should be in the up position and then the pick up stick is slid to the back of the heddle. Here s what i ve been geeking out on lately. You can do more than tabby plain weave with a rigid heddle.

For my 24 rigid heddle loom i use 24 pick up sticks. When using a. This is called charging the pick up stick. If you are totally new to weaving with the pick up stick on the rigid heddle loom check out my latest knitty column.

Once charged you can slide the stick to the back of the loom and continue to weave plain weave. The action imparted on the yarn is both the up which lifts the yarns threaded in a hole and the pick up stick which lifts the picked up slotted threads on the stick. To place a pick up stick place the heddle in the down position so only the slot threads are up.