Still getting used to the shuttle and the beat! Here is a peek at me weaving at the drawloom and lifting pattern shafts. 🤓 For Those That Want To Know: Loom: Oxaback, Ulla Cyrus, Combination Drawloom Draft: Simple Damask Table Mats by @duellingrabbitshandweaving Loom Set Up: 4 grounds shafts for broken twill, and 12 pattern shafts. Fibre: Warp = 2/16 unmercerized cotton from Venne. Weft = 2/8 unmercerized cotton from Brassards Weaving Speed: somewhere between floor loom and 16 shaft table loom

First time using floating selvedges! Watch one of our students take her time to carefully slow down her weaving rhythm and methodically get used to incorporating floating selvedges in her warp. Floating selvedges aren’t always necessary! Weavers can use them as a tool when the end most warp threads aren’t being included in the structure of the cloth. You will also need floating selvedges if you are weaving a draft that requires the weft to go back in the same shed more than once…like basket weav