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Color and Design in Huck Lace Towels - Portland Handweavers Guild


  • Multnomah Art Center 7688 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 USA (map)

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 pattern; and a 4-shaft loom can produce a myriad of different ways to combine 16 different textures of warp/weft floats with plain weave. Through Powerpoint Presentations, weavers will learn how “blocks” or units of huck lace are threaded on four and eight shafts, and how they can be combined to expand design possibilities. Discussions and Design Sessions will focus on converting a profile draft into a threading and treadling plan, and how literally thousands of designs can be created within a single threading by changing the tie-up. Participants will use printed Design Pages, Transparent Overlays, and a Huck Lace Template from Neilson’s book … An Exaltation of Blocks … to explore thousands of design possibilities for 6-block Huck Lace.