Blended stripes from dark to light and back from light to dark runs on the rug from end to end. The stripes of one colour are only about two shoots high and the thread ends are not turned back into the own shed as usual, but the second colour weft starts from where the first ended. The cotton rags are cut into short pieces, knot and wound into a ball. One colour stripe repeat is from dark to light or vice versa. Repeat the similar colour units to the length of the rug.
Wind the cotton rag strips into a ball you can pull the first rag end out from the centre. In this way you can start either from the dark end or from the light end of the cotton rag.
| The warp | 12-ply Liina cotton twine, tex 30×12, unbleached, 1 kg = n. 2560 m |
| Warp | width 84 cm density 2 threads/cm number of warp ends 168 + 4 |
| Length | 10 m |
| Reed | 20/1 or 40/1,0 |
| Weave | Plain weave |
| Kude | Cotton rags |
| Draft |  |
How to weave ombré stripes
GATHER THE COLOUR REPEATS
Cut all cotton rags into a length of approx. 2,4 x the warp width. The width of the warp 84 cm x 2,4 = 205 cm.1.
- Sort the cotton rags in order from dark to light = 1 colour repeat.
- Bind the pieces together with a knot that is easy to untie.
One colour repeat in the rug is the distance between the darkest and the lightest point.
WIND INTO A BALL
- Catch the tail of the cotton rag under your thumb and wind the rag around the palm.
- Continue winding and keep your thumb still inside the ball.
- Wind the entire colour repeat in one ball. The tail of the cotton sheet sticks out from the ball centre.
Keep your thumb inside the ball.
Wind the entire colour repeat in one ball.
WEAVE THE RUG
- A stripe from dark to light: Start winding the cotton rag on the shuttle from the light tail, in these pictures from the centre of the ball.
- A stripe from light to dark: Start winding the cotton rag on the shuttle from the dark tail, in these pictures from outside.
While weaving, untie the knots and place the tails of the cotton rags onto each other, overlapping approx. 8 cm. The new starting colour is on the top and the old ending colour is underneath.
Weave a stripe from dark to light: Wind the weft on the shuttle from the light end from centre of the ball. The dark end turns last on the shuttle and colour repeat is from dark to light while weaving.
Weave a stripe from light to dark: Wind the weft on the shuttle from the dark end outside of the ball. The light end turns last on the shuttle and colour repeat is from light to dark while weaving.
MEASURES FOR THE RUG
o The width of the cotton rag weft is approx. 2 cm.
o Amount of cotton rags needed is 1,5 kg / 1 m2.
o Cotton rags needed for a rug width of 84 cm is approx. 1,25 kg /1 m.
o 1 cm woven rug is approx. 4 shoots of cotton rags.
o The number of cut pieces of cotton rags is approx. 20 for 10 cm high woven stripe, when one piece is 2,4 x width of the warp.
o 1 ball for this rug = 1 colour repeat, the weight is 130 g and there are 20 pieces of 2,10 m long cotton rags.
