A&S Night – Stick Weaving

Taught by Dame Liadan
Stick weaving refers to two distinct portable fiber crafts: weaving on a Y-shaped branch/stick frame found in mature, or using a specialized sent of wooden or plastic weaving sticks (often sold as Schacht Weaving Sticks) to create narrow bands, straps, or scarves. We will be concentrating on the traditional weaving sticks method.
This ancient, portable technique uses a set of 4 to 6 flat wooden or plastic sticks, each featuring a small hole near one end and a tapered tip.
Thread the sticks: Cut long warp threads, feed them through the eye/hole of each individual weaving stick, and knot the ends together.
Hold like a fan: Line the sticks up in your hand. The un-woven warp threads trail behind.
Weave continuously: Pass your working weft yarn in an over-and-under motion across the front of the sticks.
Slide the work: As the upper portion fills up, push the woven fabric down and off the tapered ends of the sticks onto the trailing warp core.