Thread
over thread.
Every pick thrown by hand and beaten home — cloth that took days, not seconds. Linen, wool and hemp, off a wooden floor loom.
Loose thread,
then cloth.
Cloth is nothing but two sets of thread. The warp is strung tight up and down; the weft is thrown side to side, over one, under the next. Pick by pick, beaten tight, the cloth grows a hair at a time. Scroll, and weave a length.
A loom, and a long afternoon.
The warp
Hundreds of threads measured, wound and dressed onto the loom — beamed, threaded through heddles and reed, tied on and tensioned even. A day before a single pick is thrown.
The shed
Treadles lift some warp threads and drop others, opening a shed — the gap the shuttle passes through. The pattern lives in which threads rise.
The pick
The shuttle carries the weft across in one throw. Change the shed, throw back. Over one, under the next — the interlace that makes cloth from thread.
The beat
The reed swings and beats the new pick tight to the last. Firm and even, or the cloth reeds and puckers. Sett is set by the hand, not the loom.
Cloth with a hand.
Throws, scarves, runners and yardage — woven to order in natural fibre.
Warp, weft, and time.
We weave by hand on a wooden floor loom — linen, wool and hemp, in natural and plant-dyed colour. Every warp is dressed by hand and every pick thrown by hand; a length of cloth takes days. We weave small runs, and we finish every piece off the loom by hand.
Weave it to order.
Tell us the fibre, the width, the length and the use — we will send a sample and a price.