Flokati Rug Sample

By admin on November 7, 2024

HANDWEAVING – FLOKATI RUG SAMPLE

Flokati Rug Sample
I had about a meter left of wool warp on my loom after I wove a number of handspun blankets, so I thought I would try to weave a bit of Flokati.

Using the same wool yarn as was used for the warp, I wove several shots of tabby weave.
Cut the handspun yarn into 15-20 cm lengths. I cut a piece of cardboard into a width of 10 cm and wrapped the hand spun around it. Then cut the lengths of pile.

With an open shed in tabby weave, lay the cut pile ends across the weft, passing each thread under 3 raised warp ends. Repeat this across the width of the warp.
With the same shed still open, weave across a shot of the wool ground weft.
Change the shed.

I like to work from the right to the left, so I pick up the right side of the cut warp pile, and feed it back through 2 warp ends to the left. Repeat this across all of the handspun cut pile.

With the same shed still open, weave across a shot of the wool ground weft.
This locks the flocati pile firmly into place.
Weave another 2 shots of ground weft in tabby.
There will now be 3 shots of tabby weave between the row of pile.

Lay in another row of cut pile across the width of the warp as above. Alternate the spacing of the cut pile on each row so that the pile fills uniformly across (not directly above each other). Each row of pile should be about 1 cm apart, with 3 rows of ground tabby.