Basket Weaving Hobby

Basket Weaving Hobby

Basket Weaving Hobby

How to change the weft threads in baskets 

The baskets are very ancient art and belongs to several cultures, both Western and Eastern. In this guide I will explain how to change the weft threads while you are weaving an object. In this way, you can either change color to create decorative effects details, or even give greater dynamism to the whole changing material.

Steps:

When you see that the raffia begins to shrink more than the main plot, you have to cut the two tails to 5 inches apart. Provide then wrap a wire around a new mast and lavoralo together to queues that you previously cut. Do not include interweaving the old wires that are located inside of the work. Then changes the color of the weft thread main following the same procedure, but only on the initial upright.

If you want to get another effect, much more particularly, which is to move to weave from two to three weft yarns, add the thread indicated by the letter C in the drawing below to the right of the A and B wires to the initial upright. To do instead the inverse operation, ie switch from three to two strands of straw, dropping one of the wires inside the drum, cut and continue your braiding using two wires.

To change the color instead of the weft thread when you're already changing the wire, you will need to pay more attention because it is not an easy work begins by wrapping the wire around the pole of the new color initial and then rolls up the two colors together

Drop old color later in the basket and fill the newly inserted If during these grafts see that no wires are woven fine, bagnali well with warm water to soften them.