Michigan League of Handweavers -MLH

Hope College, Holland MI

Friday, June 5 to Sunday, June 7, 2020, 9 am – 4 pm

The structure of Huck Lace provides a treasure trove of design for weavers. It is a shaft-efficient weave structure where an 8-shaft loom can produce six blocks of design; and a 4-shaft loom can produce a myriad of different ways to combine textures of warp/weft floats with plain weave.

The workshop begins with a Power Point presentation where weavers will learn how “blocks” or units of huck lace are threaded on four and eight shafts. Discussions will focus on converting a profile draft into a threading and treadling, and how literally thousands of designs can be created within a single threading by changing the tie-up. The tie-ups will be determined by using a transparent Huck Lace Template.

Participants will use printed Design Pages, Transparent Overlays, and the Huck Lace Template from Neilson’s recently published book An Exaltation of Blocks to explore the design possibilities for 6-block Huck Lace.  Weavers with 4-shaft looms will learn the sixteen different textures of 2-block Huck Lace. The designs will be translated into woven towels.

Materials Fee: $20 – Coil bound booklet with Design Pages and Transparent Overlays

Supplies for Design Session: Graph paper -- 4 squares to the inch, #2 pencils or a few colored pencils, eraser – pink pearl, pencil sharpener, straight edge