Hi Bonnie,

Not too long ago you posted a response to a selvedge question I posed in the forum. I looked at the diagram you provided and am finally going to try your suggestion of the Norway Selvedge. But I can't figure out the actual hand maneuvers to accomplish what's shown in the diagram. Is the shuttle brought up between the selvedge and the rest of the piece? Or is it just thrown a little different? Here's what you posted:

 

A final tip is one that I learned in Norway in a class on a traditional warp-weighted loom.  I call it the Norway Selvedge, and although it slows the weaving down a bit it does produce the most lovely chained effect on each side of the weaving, while at the same time eliminating those troublesome edge floats.  The red warp ends are double floating selvedges:

 

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Weavin Steven

Sorry, didn't upload it correctly. Here's the diagram.

Bonnie Datta (not verified)

Hi.  Here is the diagram again:

 

The red warps are floating selvedges and they are always sunk.  The shuttle thus passes over the selvedge, then is turned and inserted below it, rising immediately between the selvedge and the next warp end.  The shuttle then enters the next shed, again going over (more precisely, not under) the selvedge end.  That little loop around the selvedge end which crosses over the previous exiting weft pick will cover those annoying long floats that can occur at the selvedge.

Please ask if you have further questions.

Bonnie.

 

 

szspins1 (not verified)

What a wonderful selvedge idea!! I am definitely going to try this one. Thanks, Suzy

Weavin Steven

I will try this and let you know how it turns out. Thanks!

Bonnie Datta (not verified)

I'm glad this was useful.  I thought you might like to see how it looks so here is a picture of a rug woven with alternating colors of Pendleton worms and the Norway selvedge is worked on each side.

Bonnie.

 

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