I was motivated to post this project after seeing Metex's seamless bags posted last year (and which just showed up on FB to remind me). I made this some time ago on my backstrap loom just as a little experiment in warp-faced double weave. I wanted to use the fact that warp-faced double weave without a pick up pattern produces a tube to make a seamless pouch...just for fun!! One face is purple and the other yellow.
I wove a row of pick up pattern along the bottom which sealed the tube.
Once it was off the loom I worked a couple of rows of weft twining along the bottom to hold the weft and cut the fringe. I wove some triangles along the sides as well which weren't necessary for the tubular form and had to stop weaving them after a while as the difference in take up between the patterned edge and the plain body was considerable.
So I decided to do some supplementary weft motifs instead in the inlay method I learned in Guatemala, turning the weft in such a way that it outlined the motif.
This pouch is just the right size for eyeglasses and I sewed a strip of tape measure into the top seam to create one of those "snap openings''...the kind where you squeeze the sides of the pouch and the top pops open.....like so... and that was the only sewing involved. My friend Bobbie gave me the tape measure idea.
This was a prototype. If I make another, I will plan the pattern beforehand rather than make it up as I go!
And here it is along with a few other small pouches I have made lately on the backstrap loom in supplementary weft and warp and complementary warp pick up techniques as well as finnweave.
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