Color-and-Weave on the Rigid-Heddle Loom

Create Dynamic Patterns with Simple Weaving

If you’re not familiar with the realm of possibilities in color-and-weave, get ready to expand your weaving horizons. Using just two colors on your rigid-heddle loom, you can create an amazing array of visual effects in your projects—no pick-up stick required.

This course will cover:

Choosing yarns for an effective contrast
How to design and plan a color pattern
Special considerations for warping color-and-weave on a rigid-heddle
How to read a weaving pattern
Shuttle management
Tips for tidy selvedges and finishing
And ways to explore even more variations

Color-and-weave produces impressive designs on even the simplest weave structures, such as plain weave, making it perfect for the rigid-heddle loom. Though it may look complex, don’t let your eyes fool you. It’s the unique combination of alternating light and dark values that create these one-of-a-kind optical illusions, and it’s easier than you think.

Included in the Course:

Detailed instructional videos, totaling 52 minutes of video
Gamp scarf pattern with threading and treadling plan

Materials and Equipment:

Rigid-heddle loom with 15-dent heddle or 2 8-dent heddles and two shuttles
Warping board or warping peg
Sampler gamp pattern (included)
5/2 pearl cotton yarn for your scarf project

As you work through each lesson, you’ll gain the confidence to start weaving color-and-weave effects and put this new knowledge into practice. Get started weaving with Sara today!

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Praise for This Course

Thank you for the inspiration

“I enjoyed this course on weaving color and weave effects on the rigid heddle loom. I learned some excellent tips I will use immediately in my next project. Thank you for the clear explanation and the many resources added into the course.” - Sharon Geyer

Great Introductory Course for Color and Weave

“This course showed the possibilities which occur when using different arrangements of colors in the warp and the weft to create patterns when using plain weave. The information was clearly presented and included tips on how to experiment with color in your weaving. When I start designing my own weaves, I expect to refer back to this course.” - Constance Pallas