Katherine Larson's book The Woven Coverlets of Norway shows two samples woven in a mix of techniques (page 94 & 113). These samplers reproduce many of the patterns in those pieces, and in others that I have photos of from my trip to Norway and the weaving class I took there. I've posted a picture of me weaving on a warp-weighted loom in that class which was 5 years ago.
These samplers were woven on a 4-shaft Leclerc Fanny, threaded in straight draw.
The patterns combine plain weave, tapestry, krokbragd, 3/1, 2/2 and 1/3 twills, hand pickup and inlay. It's a lot of fun playing with the colours and designs. I used 5 colours, and carried all 5 up the selvedges for the full length of the piece. That reduces the breaks and joins but it does make the selvedges a little wobbly. I plan to make these samplers into a shopping bag or maybe pillows, so I didn't concern myself with perfect edges. The mix of techniques requires careful control of weft tension -- I found that anything over about 1" of plain weave made a bit of a bulge, but the twills were very consistent.
I washed a pressed them and now need to think about making them into something.
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