Weaving Using Pick Up Sticks

For my 24 rigid heddle loom i use 24 pick up sticks.

Weaving using pick up sticks.

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. This is called charging the pick up stick. You can do more than tabby plain weave with a rigid heddle. When using a.

Then you use a pick up stick to pick up only those. Here s what i ve been geeking out on lately. Once charged you can slide the stick to the back of the loom and continue to weave plain weave. If you are totally new to weaving with the pick up stick on the rigid heddle loom check out my latest knitty column.

This class assumes that you have the ability to warp and dress your own loom without assistance and are reasonably comfortable doing so. Then you pick up the configuration you want behind the heddle. Incorporate one pick up stick and you can weave on 3 shafts. 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. I give a very basic primer on how it works and discuss how to weave warp floats. 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. In first fall edition of knitty i ll address weft floats.

Pick up sticks can be used to create simple patterns for all over texture or to create complex designs that may travel or cover only part of the weaving surface. In this case i m picking 1 down 1 up. I can use these same sticks whether my project is narrow or full loom width.